Halloween and Pumpkin Books:
Suggestions from "TagYerit Present's"
Available through Amazon.com
Because Amazon is always offering different deals, we show the list price. You'll need to click the appropriate link to see the price they're currently offering them at.
Play with Your Food by Saxton Freymann & Joost Elffers
Play With Your Food Postcard Book
by Joost Elffers, Saxton Freymann
all new: from $9.56
Now you can mail your friends AND play with your food too.
Pumpkin Carving Book : How to Create Glowing Lanterns and Seasonal Displays by Deborah Schneebli-Morell, Debbie Patterson
- includes step-by-step instructions for producing original pumpkin lanterns. The 20 projects take advantage of the many colors, shapes and sizes of this versatile vegetable and offer a wide range of decorating ideas. Includes over 100 color photos.
List price: $9.95
Pumpkin Carving by Ed Palmer, Edward Palmer
Over 30 original pumpkin pattern designs. From spooky to goofy, you'll find something wonderful to carve here. The book's full-size patterns are imaginative and easy to follow. ... gypsy, cats, bats, witches, ghouls, "Happy Halloween" and "Trick or Treat" designs and mmore. With these great pumpkins, your house will attract a lot of admirers.
List Price: $6.95
Pumpkin Painting by Jordan McKinney
If you're interested in painting your pumpkins, they last longer if they're not cut open, and even the littlest kids can get in on the act. Transform pumpkins into a visual feast with these wacky, whimsical designs and easy-to-trace patterns. Learn to choose the perfect pumpkin, extend its life, transfer patterns, apply the paint, and embellish.
Patterns include: spooky (witches, werewolves, mummies, monsters, haunted houses, a Grim Reaper who leers out of the blackness); the silly (clowns, barnyard animals, goofy grinning faces); country-décor (autumn leaves, sunflowers, plaids). Some of the designs may take a little practice, but most are fairly easy.
List Price: $6.95 (paperback)
Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson (photos by Shmuel Haler)
How-To-Grow World Class Giant Pumpkins by Don Langevin
Highly recommended if you're looking to grow giant pumpkins
List Price $14.95 - paperback
How-to-Grow World Class Giant Pumpkins II: Sequel to the Classic Book on Growing Giant Pumpkins
by Don Langevin
Reviewer Mike Stephenson from Oregon credits this book for helping him grow an 819 pound pumpkin. And as another reader of this book says, "There is nothing like putting a 500+ pound orange jack-o-lantern on your front porch on Halloween and letting the neighborhood enjoy the sight of it."
List Price: $17.95
The Perfect Pumpkin by Gail Damerow
Everything you need to know about growing pumpkins
An extensive well written book on growing, cooking and carving pumpkins. ... starting seeds, preparing the field, caring, troubleshooting and harvesting. Includes info on varieties and pumpkin pests.
List price $12.95
Halloween Pumpkins & Parties by Carol Field Dahlstrom (Editor) Better Homes and Gardens
A Halloween How-To: Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
covers Halloween trends, costumes, recipes, movies, parties, myths and expeditions. One of the most fascinating chapters addresses some of the myths about Halloween. Includes a guide to the ideal sound effects to make your party creepy (think Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries list price $5.98
) ... a lot of unique ideas and perspectives ... the major complaint for many is that there are not enough pictures.
List Price: $17.95
Give Them a Real Scare This Halloween: "A Guide to Scaring Trick-Or-Treaters, & Haunting Your House, Yard or Party"
by Joseph Pfeiffer, Randolph Metz (Editor)
This 128 page humorous how-to book is a collection of tricks, illusions, props, costumes, and scenery ideas that can be used to scare trick-or-treaters in the yard or at the door, build a haunted attraction, or spice up your Halloween party. Over 250 cartoons and drawing humorously illustrate hundreds of frighteningly wacky ideas described in satirical humor.
List Price: $9.95
Haunted House Halloween Handbook
by Jerry R. Chavez
Not recommended for beginners. This book is great for people looking to take their haunted house to the next level, giving it a more pro look yet still within budget. ... like using stage magic to add new twists to old illusions.
List Price: $25.00
101 Spooktacular Party Ideas by Linda Sadler
Useful whether you are having a few children over or are throwing a huge bash. 101 Spooktacular Party Ideas features 9 outdoor decorations, 10 indoor decorations, 10 quick and easy treats, 15 make ahead treats, 10 beverage ideas, 22 relay and active games, 11 quiet games, 14 craft and party favors, and more! Clear and easy to use, with plenty of pictures. Most of the materials are inexpensive and easy to find. Step-by-step instructions guide the reader through each activity.
List Price: $9.95
Halloween: The Best of Martha Stewart Living
by Martha Stewart
To help celebrate this ghoulish holiday, the editors of Martha Stewart Living bring us Halloween, a compilation of all the best tricks and treats of the spooky season that have been published over the past 10 years.
List Price: $22.00
Dazzling Disguises and Clever Costumes
by Angela Wilkes
Dressed for Thrills: "One Hundred Years of Halloween Costume and Masquerade" by Mark Alice Durant, Phyllis Galembo (Photographer)
A whimsical array of spooks parade through this collection of more than 100 years of American Halloween attire. From Little Bo Peep to beatniks and pirates, from monsters and witches to clowns and animals. Photographer Phyllis Galembo never settles for the ordinary; instead are evocative scenes of dressed-to-scare young trick-or-treaters, undead spirits haunting their surroundings, and costumes spanning over a century that take on an eerie new creepiness thanks to special lighting effects. Alongside the costumes is a history of this holiday and an essay placing the work in the wider context of fashion and costume. Of interest to enthusiasts, designers, and students alike.
List Price: $24.95
Halloween Costumes (Singer Sewing Reference Library) by The Editors of Creative Publishing international, Singer
great step-by-step instructions and detailed color photos. Fairly easy to follow. Construction comes in three basic styles: tabards, gowns, and full-suit costumes, as well as detailed directions on making various types of headwear, capes, collars, skirts, wings, leggings, and shoe covers. These ordinary costumes (pumpkin, spaceman, lion, king, queen ...), are easily adaptable to you own ideas.
List Price: $16.95
Clever Costume Creating for Halloween
by Suzanne Singleton, Linda Ports (Illustrator)
A good resource for coming up with ideas and more out of the ordinary costumes. Many for children and some more appropriate for adults.
List Price: $15.95
Halloween: Customs, Recipes, Spells
by Silver Ravenwolf
The History of Halloween: From Druids to Drag Queens
by Nicholas Rogers
Covers the complex history with Celtic & Christian ritual, from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. He examines the 1970s and '80s phenomena of Halloween sadism (razor blades in apples) and inner-city violence (arson in Detroit), as well as the immense influence of the horror film genre on the reinvention of Halloween as a terror-fest. Throughout his vivid account, Rogers shows how Halloween remains, at its core, a night of inversion, when social norms are turned upside down, and a temporary freedom of expression reigns supreme. Engagingly written & based on extensive research, this is the definitive history of the most bewitching day of the year, illuminating the intricate history and shifting cultural forces.
List Price: $23.00
Lammas by Anna Franklin, Paul Mason
Possibly geared to those who are more pagan oriented, this book discusses some of the rich history and traditions that are evolving into todays current practices.
List Price: $17.95
Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History
by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
packed with info and fascinating lore.
List Price: $14.95
The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland (Irish Literature, History and Culture)
by Jack Santino
How the old customs of Northern Ireland have persisted and contributed to the Halloween celebrations of today.
List Price: $29.95
Halloween Collectables: A Price Guide
by Dan Campanelli
Consider this a great catalog of Halloween items. The price guide will point you in the right direction, though keep in mind that the book was published in 1995 and the prices will mostly have changed.
List Price: $24.95
Halloween: Collectible Decorations and Games
by Pamela Apkarian-Russell, Christopher J. Russell, Pamela E. Apkarian-Russell
A wonderful assortment of Halloween decoration and collectibles are featured here in over 600 exciting color photos. Separate chapters highlight noise makers for scaring away ghouls and ghosts, Winsch Publishing postcards, arcade machines and mechanical figures, table decorations for that perfect Halloween party, folk art, fortune telling games, and much more. The author provides values for all items
List Price: $29.95
Halloween Hits
~ Various Artists
Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Halloween ~ Various Artists - Alternative
Most holidays exclude somebody--on grounds of religious beliefs, political persuasion, or refusal to eat our fine feathered friends--but not good old Halloween, which has a little something for everyone. The same can be said of this 15-track collection, which spans modern music's sonic and sensory...
List Price: $11.98
HALLOWEEN BASH
~ Victor R. Vampire & Friends
12 fun songs - country, pop, and novelty selections. Various artists featured including Victor R. Vampire. Lots of special effects.
List Price: $11.99
Move Me [IMPORT] Screaming Jay Hawkins
This is not a stock item, but its the only Screaming Jay Hawkins that Amazon lists with "You Put a Spell on Me." This song should be on any Halloween playlist.
Somethin' Funny Goin' On Screaming Jay Hawkins
"Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" is another great tune that has Halloween written all over it.
Courier ~ Richard Shindell
Live spinning mythic stories of fateful battlefields, haunted truckers, and visionary saints and lovers alike. not your typical "Halloween" CD. It's defintely a CD to play all year round. BUT, the reason its hear is because of the song "Are You Happy Now?", which is a wonderfully spiteful lost-love song, that takes place during Halloween - complete with all the trimmings.
Here's a song lyric excerpt:
"I smashed your pumpkin on the floor The candle flickered at my feet As goblins flew across the room The children peered into the room A cowboy shivered on the porch And Cinderella checked her watch A hobo waited in the street An angel whispered trick or treat What was I supposed to do But to sit there in the dark I was amazed to think that you Would take the candy with you too"Then there's a great description of the results of next morning. Not a pretty sight.
Tubeman by TagYerit (yeah, that's us)
Ok, so this is not Halloween music, but there's plenty of ideas that fit into the jello-mold that makes Halloween fun. Including such songs as "The Hike" and "SciFi" which have an other-worldly flavor to them.
List Price $15.99
Martha Stewart Living: Spooky Scary Sounds for Halloween ~ Various Artists
Martha Stewart's sonic spookathon bodes well for her new alliance with Rhino Records. The 40-minute, single-track CD steals the Halloween thunder from tired, hokey hits such as "The Monster Mash" and leaves you scratching your head over why such a masterful menagerie of menacing sounds didn't hit
List Price: $9.98
Halloween Horrors ~ Various Artists
This classic was first released in 1977. The story is great, with dozens of haunting sounds.
List Price: $11.98
Halloween Sound Effects [Laserlight]
~ Various Artists
List Price: $5.49
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