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...STREAMING FROM THE CASTLE EAST! This fan-made 1973 video for "The Monster Mash" is today's must-see clip (natch), though you can also see Bobby "Boris" Pickett perform it live at Little Steven's Halloween a Go-Go 2005. The covers by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Misfits are pretty good also -- the latter uses clips from the Rankin-Bass animated classic, Mad Monster Party.

THE FLAMING LIPS led the March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons, as part of Oklahoma City's inaugural Ghouls Gone Wild Halloween Parade.  Video at the link.

JIM CARROLL sings about "People Who Died."

FOLK ALLEY celebrates Halloween with a special 5-hour stream of spooky folk music, including ghost stories, murder ballads, gory tales, supernatural songs, and myths of death, witches, goblins and vampires.  NPR has highlights.

HENRI MANCINI: "Experiment in Terror." A sentimental favorite to those who grew up watching "Creature Features" on WGN before it went superstation.

HALLOWEEN A/V: PopMatters has quite the collection of streaming Halloween videos and audio, from Bauhaus to Tegan & Sara to Stevie Wonder to AC/DC to Cream... though imho, there's no beating Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

WARREN ZEVON is on that PopMatters list, but I prefer a live trifecta of "Werewolves of London," "Excitable Boy" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner."

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN won't put on his usual Halloween display for New Jersey's trick-or-treaters at his home out of concern for the safety of families in the town of Rumson, NJ.

KISS got their first television exposure in 1976 on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.

"DO THEY KNOW IT'S HALLOWEEN?" is the all-star charity send-up of Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" featuring Roky Erikson, Elvira, plus members from Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Smoosh, Rilo Kiley, Sparks and many more.

TRICK OR TREAT BIN: From Van Halen to Screamin' Lord Sutch, from Otis Redding to Nick Cave, from KISS to the Strangeloves, from the Beatles to the Mummies and more  -- this Friday's Halloween-themed finds can be jukeboxed or streamed separately via the Pate page at the ol' HM.

THE TIME WARP:  Let's do it again.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri, which is currently scoring 62 on the ol' Tomatometer and The Haunting of Molly Hartley, which is unsurprisingly unscreened for critics.  The Changeling also expands wide, with a score of 53 percent. Guy Ritchie's RockNRolla goes near-wide with 61 percent.

THE 11 BEST OLD SCHOOL HORROR TRAILERS, according to Maxim magazine. Yeah, I read it for the articles.

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, in its entirety, Charlie Brown.  Every year, the bootleg video rises from the Internet patch.

PUMPKINS WITH HUMAN FACES: An idea for next year.

FIVE THINGS you may not know about Halloween.

THE NIGHT of the LIVING DEAD turns 40 with PopMatters compiling 30 articles that uniquely analyze, dissect, discuss, and re-appreciate the cultural, political, social, ideological, philosophical, and psychological meanings of this groundbreaking horror film. 

WAR of the WORLDS:  The 70th anniversary of the infamous Orson Welles broadcast was yesterday.  You can stream it from Radio Heard Here or the Internet Archive.

THE WILHELM SCREAM: The repeatedly used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums, now appearing as an in-joke in many films, is the subject of a Masters of Horror segment.

23 UNUSUAL VAMPIRE VARIATIONS, courtesy of The A.V. Club.

GHOST SIGHTINGS: Are they really caused by your alarm clock? If not, who you gonna call?

"THRILLER" performed by French community college students is less dancetastic than the filipino prisoners, but the gave it ol' community college try.

PETS IN COSTUMES: Despite the dangers, here's an obligatory gallery or two or three.  They will turn on the humans some day.

VAMPIRE MOTHS: New species identified in Siberia is vegetarian. Video at the link.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant squirrel attacks early voting in Florida.

GIANT GRIFFON VULTURE attacks Britons as they watched a show at the popular Jungle Park in Tenerife.