Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 30

My favorite Halloween listen is here: DJ Ichabod’s annual “Out ov the Coffin” Halloween Special! 

Here’s the official description: “TEAR FORTH FROM YOUR GRAVES, it’s time for The 2019 “Out ov the Coffin” HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! Yes, three blood-soaked hours of Halloween-obsessed sounds for your treat bags, featuring full-size songs from the most morbid realms of goth, post-punk, deathrock, horror punk, darkwave, and dark metal, riddled with hundreds of fun-sized bites of cult movie dialogue, sound effects, trailers, radio spots, novelties, and, of corpse, horror film and television soundtracks, all assembled in ritual formation, and (g)hosted by yours truly, DJ Ichabod.” Listen here!

(This is “HalloQueen” by Shahuskies, whose work is found here on DeviantArt, here on Etsy, and here on Redbubble.)  

“… I love Halloween. I celebrate it as a season as opposed to a single evening, a season that starts on the first cool day in September (even earlier than Salem’s) and which ends when all the jack-o’-lantern souls are doused on Halloween night. I love that every candy aisle in every store is suddenly a carnage of gummy body parts and chocolate grotesques. I love the way round orange pumpkins and tall yellow cornstalks become the dots and dashes of the season’s Morse code. I love how we find the colors of decay suddenly beautiful as the leaves die in conflagrations around us. I love that horror movies are on every channel and in every theater. I love that haunted house attractions exist. I love Bing Crosby singing about the Headless Horseman and Michael Jackson dancing with zombies. I love how the carefully tended lawns of spring and summer yield foam tombstones and plastic skeletons in the fall. And, of course, even though they were left out of the Monster Mash, I’ve always loved a good Halloween witch. Or an evil one.”

- J.W. Ocker, A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts