You can use this creepy Rocking Ghost Girl for year-round scares. Keep neighbor kids off your porch, and terrify your teenagers into doing their homework! She needs a 100V outlet to function. You can always run a hidden green extension cord out to the yard if you decide to put her in your treehouse, child's playhouse, or guarding your swimming pool.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Monday, November 7, 2011
Weebles Haunted House
The Weebles Haunted House was sold in the 1970s. My mom wouldn't let us get one because it looked "satanic." (Sigh).
It came with a ghost Weeble, a witch weeble (wearing a pointy hat, even!) and two scared-looking children Weebles. Check out how primitive and unadorned the 1970s plastic furniture is.
There are several Weebles haunted houses on eBay, ranging from $20 to $500 in price the seller hopes to get.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
How-To Books for Home Haunters

Matthew Mead Halloween Tricks and Treats is geared towards decorating your home and throwing a party, not professionally haunting your house. Lots of inventive recipes and creative Halloween craft projects.

This Propmakers Handbook is for serious enthusiasts and crafters. Besides recipes for fake vomit and fake blood, haunt design is touched on, plus tips on creating apprehension.

While Enhanced Eerie Elegance is a party book with recipes, its suggestions for haunted decor apply more to home haunters who take it seriously, than casual party throwers.

Tips for simple decorations and ways to transform entire rooms of your home into haunted scenes.
Adorably Spooky Funko Monster Plushies

This Frankenstein plushie wants to come along when you go trick-or-treating with your kids.

Let The Wolfman guard your house on Halloween night.

Cuddle up with The Mummy every night.

The Creature From the Black Lagoon looks more frightened of you than you are of him.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Cute Tiny Halloween Dolls

These cute Halloween Budkin dolls are made for kids, but I think they'd be great as part of a Halloween mantel or tablescape.
The set comes with a witch, vampire, mummy, Frankenstein's monster, skeleton, and dead pirate. The dolls are extremely tiny, and sell for just $9.95.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Adorable Halloween Cauldron Mugs

New for Halloween 2011, Halloween cauldron mugs from Williams-Sonoma. They're sold in sets of 4.
Perfect for scary story nights, drinking hot cocoa before going out trick-or-treating, or year-round coffee drinking. So cute!
Friday, September 30, 2011
10 Slightly Spooky Halloween Books for Babies

"One Halloween Night" is described as a "seek and count" book. It has flaps you can lift to peer at the little spooky creatures that inhabit the book.

"The Sleepless Little Vampire" has adorable artwork, and tells the story of a vampire who is too scared of the day creatures to go to sleep in his coffin.

"The House that Witchy Built" is a rhyming book featuring a ghost, a bat, a cat, and a skeleton.

Clackers Cat is a board book for tiny babies. Their little hands can manipulate the pages to see more of the Halloween black cat.

The Little Witch version of the clackers book features a cute pointy swirled hat.

"What's in the Witch's Kitchen?" is for ages 4 to 8. You can pull open parts of the book to peek inside various appliances in the kitchen.

"Little Goblins Ten" is a remake of some children's book I've never heard of called "Over the Meadow." It rhymes and has a Halloween theme. I find the goblins a nice refreshing change from the usual bat, witch, ghost books for children.

The Picky Little Witch doesn't like to eat anything her mama stews up for her in their creepy cauldron.

"I'm the Scariest Thing in the Castle," boasts a little vampire bat in this book for toddlers. The other creepies who live in the castle try to prove him wrong.

A little boy is just growing into his vampire fangs and isn't sure what to use them on, in Gibbous Moony Wants to Bite You. Ages 4-8.