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Frights & Fables: Halloween Party Feast

This is the second Halloween guide we’ve put together for your gaming group. If you missed the first, track down Danny’s Rock’n Halloween Gaming Night in the Geek Opera Index — it’s a great companion piece focused on the gaming side of your evening. This guide covers the table: the food, the fun, and the atmosphere that makes a gothic Halloween party unforgettable.

Frights & Fables: Dealing Up Halloween

Here is what you will learn: when to pull, how many to pull, and — the true gift — exactly what every single card means, from the humble two to the dreadful ace. Each one carries its own Halloween face. Let us deal.

52 Weeks: Horror Possessed

The original Amityville Horror was the first movie that ever terrified me when I was a kid. The red eyes at the windows did it, even though they seem dated now.

52 Weeks: Where Your Eyes Don’t See

The film wastes very little time in pleasantries. Characters are introduced with impressive efficiency, the essential terrain of the story laid down swiftly and without ceremony, and before one has quite settled into one’s chair, the machinery is already in motion. A kidnapping scheme gone magnificently, catastrophically wrong. A luxurious London townhouse transformed into a pressure cooker.

31 Days of Halloween: New Path to Insidious

Twilight creeps forward as we step into the shadowy expanse of Insidious, a franchise that has solidified its presence within the annals of modern horror. Gather close as I unfold my thoughts on this series of four films that dance upon the precipice of dread and despair.

Frights and Fables: Eco-Horror Adventures

Listen closely, my friends. The world beneath your feet, the skies above, and the oceans beyond are not passive entities.

Frights and Fables: Peaks & Depths

Tonight, we do not tell tales of cozy hearths or triumphant heroes. No, this is a world of dark whispers and unrelenting dread. A world where cursed peaks rise to scrape the underbelly of heaven and fathomless caverns call with promises of secrets best left hidden.

31 Days of Halloween: Mission Accomplished

Greetings, everyone. The intense journey of “31 Days of Halloween” has reached its triumphant conclusion, and it’s all thanks to your outstanding suggestions and unwavering enthusiasm. Each film you recommended added a distinct layer to this adventure, making it both exhilarating and demanding. The overwhelming response on Facebook was a revelation, and I took on…

31 Days of Halloween: Burton’s Dark Dream

Sleepy Hollow (1999)******** (8 out of 10 stars)Directed by: Tim BurtonStarring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, and Christopher Walken. “In the bosom of one grave there were centuries of unborn ghosts. The shadows that had peopled the imagination of a child were now breathless phantoms.” – Ichabod Crane Tim…

31 Days of Halloween: Carpenter’s Fog Legacy

The Fog (1980)******* (7 out of 10 stars)Directed by: John CarpenterStarring: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, John Houseman, Charles Cyphers, and Nancy Loomis. “My gauges must be wrong. The wind is blowing due east. Now, what kind of fog moves against the wind?” – Stevie Wayne John Carpenter’s “The…