Spooktoberthon Check In - Week 1 Progress

Hey Bookdragons! It's the 10th and I've already discovered some great spooky reads this month... 

Spooktoberthon Reading Progress

💀 No One’s Home by DM Pulley - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

💀 The Girl From the Otherside by Nagabe - 🌟🌟🌟🌟
💀 Piper by Jay Asher 🌟🌟🌟
💀 Mercy Thompson: Homecoming by Patricia Briggs - 🌟🌟
 💀 Crimson Peak: The Art of Darkness by Mark Salisbury and Guillermo del Toro - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
💀 The Last by Hanna Jameson - DNF @ 15%

💀 Follow You Home by Mark Edwards

Currently Reading

💀 The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

Still to Read

💀 The Haunting of Beacon Hill by Ambrose Ibsen

💀 Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

💀 The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

💀 The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich 

💀 The Naida Tapes by Dawn Kurtagich 

💀 Slasher Girls and Monster Boys Anthology

💀 Crimson Peak by Nancy Holder

💀 Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics

💀 The Witch of Blackbird Pond

💀 Lucky Break by Carly Phillips

💀 The Hollow by Jessica Verday

💀 Creep by Eireann Corrigan

💀 Now Entering Addamsville by Franscesca Zappia

💀 The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher

💀 City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

🍂 Spooktober Movie Progress 🍂

Watched

🍂 Practical Magic 

🍂 Carrie

🍂 The House of Wax (Vincent Price Version)

🍂 Addams Family  & Addams Family Values 

Still to Go

🍂 I Know What You Did Last Summer

🍂 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

🍂 Halloween

🍂 Hocus Pocus

🍂 Scream 1-4

🍂 Halloweentown 1-4

🍂 Casper

🍂 An American Haunting

🍂 Sleepy Hollow

🍂 The Legend of Hell House

🍂 Prom Night

🍂 The Fog

🍂 The Haunted Mansion

🍂 Tower of Terror

🍂 Crimson Peak

🍂 IT

🍂 The Shining

🍂 Psycho

🍂 House of Wax (2005 Remake)

🍂 Swimfan

🍂 The Haunting

🍂 Friday the Thirteenth

🍂 Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls

🍂 Flatliners

🍂 Bad Times at the El Royale 

🍂 The Legend of Lucy Keyes

🍂 Solstice

🍂 When A Stranger Calls

History of Halloween #1

Halloween originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-een) when people would light bonfires to ward off evil spirits. Samhain is still celebrated today by Pagans all over the world as one of the 8 Wiccan Sabbats, Samhain in particular being Wiccan New Year. 

In modern times, Samhain marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the dark half of the year and it is a time to honor the dead as the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. Wiccans celebrate with bonfires, feasting (we Wiccans do love a good feast), divination, and leaving offerings out for deceased loved ones as they traverse the mortal plane.