Happy Halloween, everyone!  It’s a horror hound’s favorite holiday!  Like last year, I thought I’d celebrate with some Halloween carols!

First, the traditional song to open the season:

Then…the Halloween monsters come out:

…and ride forth across the land.

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Halloween Carols 2015 – Songs of the Slashers

As is tradition here at Dreams of the Shining Horizon, I’ve spent the last few days collecting Halloween Carols so I could celebrate my favorite month of the year with my readers.  This year, I’ve collected more songs than usual, to the point that I felt the need to divide them up into two posts.  Looking them over, I noticed that some of them fit…shall we say…a certain theme.  And that is how we…

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Halloween Carols 2015 – The Season of Dark Magic

And so, with last week’s celebration of the Slasher as prologue, I bring to you my full collection of Halloween Carols – the anthems of the season of dark magic:

Charlie Daniels tells us about the things that hide out in that real country dark:

Next is one of my old…

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Hey, all.

Red Molly and I are spending today at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, for the biggest day of their series of horror film screenings in honor of Halloween.  Today, we see Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney version), The Bride of Frankenstein, and Night of the Living Dead (original) on the big screen.

I’d encourage everyone who can make it to do so, but tickets are first come,…

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Hello, all!

It’s that time again!  Every horror hound’s favorite time of year, when the night grows long and the chill sets in and the leaves begin dying in their bright colors. When dark magic runs gleefully through the streets and jack-o-lanterns glow from the windows and we count down the days until the night when the vampires seek the blue flame, when the dead walk the Earth and danse the…

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