On Halloween, one of the “darkest” of nights, proper lighting is crucial to the spook factor.  Lighting plays a huge role in setting a “dark” mood, and can help create the sinister shadows that are perfect for Halloween.

Add creepiness to your Halloween party with special lighting effects! There are lots of ways you can illuminate this delightfully dark holiday with spotlights, window lights, strobe lights, colored bulbs, and more.

Light strings are a good starting point when thinking about Halloween lighting. They come in a variety of colors such as orange, black, green and purple as well as other colors and they are relatively inexpensive. They are also available in different Halloween shapes like skulls, pumpkins, goblins, ghosts and candy corn. They can be hung from trees and shrubs, strung along fences or attached to the eaves of the house.

Other popular choices for Halloween lighting are flickering candlelight or black lights.   Black lights produce a dark purple glow after the sun goes down and highlights costumes and makeup that are fluorescent. You can purchase black lights by themselves in most hardware stores and replace existing outdoor lights or buy them complete with a fixture.

Strobe lights create a  Halloween lighting effect  that teases the senses to a razor edge. The flashing itself is frighteningly disorienting. Add the apparent disjointed movement of a zombie or a monster, and your guests’ emotions will be piqued for any terrifying surprise you wish to spring on them.

Be sure to use some type of lighting on your walkways and paths to make sure that small Trick or Treaters or guests coming to your Halloween party can see their way clearly. Halloween luminaria, or candles places in paper bags filled with sand, are an excellent choice for people with uneven sidewalks or long driveways.  You can also buy Glow Sticks as party favors, so that guests and Trick or Treaters will have lights that they can carry with them to help them see their way and be safe while they’re out having scary fun.  Happy Halloween!

A banquet suitable for Dracula himself – Chef Daniel Bonnot in New Orleans prepares his Halloween treat: Black Widow’s Web (Black Bean Soup), Picked-Fresh-on-Full-Moon Graveyard Salad (Fresh Greens), Roasted Baby Bat (Veal-stuffed Quail), King Trout’s Mummy (Trout with Leeks, Onions, and Ricard, Wrapped in Phyllo), Witches’ Cauldron Souffle’ (Pumpkin Souffle’ in a Baby Pumpkin), and Dracula’s Bite of Delight (Chocolate Mousse with Caramelized Pastry). This one-hour video is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply.

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Lawn Lights is a decoration that was designed for consumers who want an extraordinary and unique holiday lighting display but don’t want to spend a lot of time, money, and effort on it. Lawn Lights allow consumers to build stunning landscape lighting displays in as little as 10 minutes with very little effort. These simple yet elegant displays rival those that are created with other decorations that require significantly more time and effort.

Lawn Lights can produce a unique and stunning lighting display in a fraction of the time it takes to create ‘conventional’ holiday lighting displays, and at a comparable cost. One set of Lawn Lights covers an area of up to 3000 square feet. Best of all – IT’S SO EASY! No spending all (more…)

Here is a great idea for spooky sound effects at your next Haunting or Halloween Party!  The artist is Midnight Syndicate and creepy mood music is what they do best. Here is a sampling of some of their album titles:

• 13th Hour
• Vampire Symphonies from the Crypt
• Out of Darkness
• Gates of Delirium
• The Dead Matter
• The Rage Soundtrack

A few user comments:

“perfect mood setter”

“scary – made a party guest apprehensive” (I love this one!)

“perfect for Halloween”

“an absolute staple for both professional haunted attractions and the aspiring home haunter”

Fright Catalog, Inc.FrightCatalog.com has an entire section devoted to Midnight Syndicate’s works.  If you’re looking for spooky mood music, you owe it to yourself (and your guests) to check out Midnight Syndicate at FrightCatalog.com.

Happy Haunting!

This hardcover book is just what you are looking for to plan the perfect Halloween party! Get howls of laughter and shrieks of delight with Frightfully Fun Halloween Recipes. It’s full of recipes for scary meals, silly snacks and devilish desserts perfect for goblins young and old! Don’t be afraid—it’s easy to scare up Halloween fun! Colorful photography is loaded with fantastic serving ideas.

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These are great for a quick and easy Halloween Dinner before it’s out the door for Trick or Treating!  Or serve them up at your Halloween Party for a more substantial snack!

Mummy Dogs

Ingredients:

• Hot dogs
• Ready-made croissant dough
• Mustard and ketchup

Directions:

Cut the croissant dough into strips. Wrap hot dogs to look like mummies. Bake at 375 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown. You can make faces with ketchup and mustard.

Halloween Burgers

Kids just love these Halloween Burgers – and you might be surprised at your adult guests’ reactions, too!

Ingredients:

• Hamburgers
• Red and Green Peppers cut into shapes – triangles, squares, circles, etc.
• Cheese slices – Orange American, White American or Provolone
• Black and Green Olives – sliced

Directions:

Using a metal Halloween Cookie Cutter sprayed with a bit of non-stick cooking spray, cut Halloween shapes from the cheese slices.  Pumpkins from the Orange American, Ghosts from the White American or Provolone

Use the pieces of Peppers and the olive slices to garnish, making eyes, mouths, teeth, etc.

Don’t forget the ketchup!

This book has received rave reviews for the tips and suggestions it offers not only for kids but adults as well.

Check it out here: Halloween Recipes & Crafts

Hot Topic specializes in music and pop culture inspired fashion clothing and accessories, band merchandise, and gifts, plus they have a super selection of Halloween costumes.  Hey guys – not sure what you want to be for Halloween yet?  Check out all the great men’s costume ideas in Hot Topic’s Guy’s Guide to Halloween Costumes!

Dr. Jekyll had only one thing to say when he saw this haunted prop – “Be still my heart!”

Ultra realistic, fresh looking human heart with endless possibilities. Great for the laboratory, set it in a puddle of blood for that extra gore factor, a little snack for your zombie character and don’t forget your massacre scene or that extra special touch for your haunted graveyard. We could go on and on but we’re certain you’ll find the perfect use for this latex prop.

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Have fun at your next party with candy cups that look like Harry Potter’s Cauldron!

• Perfect for filling with small candies, bubble gum (Droobles!)  or mints
• Great for a Harry Potter-themed party, Halloween parties and more
• 6 Cauldrons per pack

Click here to order!