Happy Halloween!

First things first, there's a ghost in my shower.

Second things second: Don't forget to listen to Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

Excited about Halloween this year (and a habitual autumn-lover), I've been making a few YouTube shorts while out shopping. 

I also read a "spooky" (cute) board book with monsters.

And here's what I did last Saturday. Note the local authors and dancing witches.

This is a good podcast episode for Halloween: Author Colin Dickey goes to Nevada's legal brothel, Mustang Ranch, to interview some of the sex workers there, learns the ghost lore of the Ranch, and possibly has a ghost encounter of his own.

If you're an enjoyer of vintage Halloween, and in particular the Halloween of 100 years ago, here are some additional videos you might enjoy. This one recounts a 1925 journalist's understanding of the history of Halloween.

These are some Halloween newspaper clippings from October 11th through October 23rd, 1925.

Here's an interesting artifact of early 20th century culture: The Yama Yama Man.

Vintage Halloween Newspaper Ads from October 22, 1925

 

From a Newspaper in Minnesota

From Little Rock, Arkansas's German-Language Newspaper

This and the following are from the San Antonio (Texas) Light

I am sorry about the racism of some of these costume ideas. It was 100 years ago.

New Links to 'Beltane' Audiobook

Beltane is a sexy romance. Allie is marrying the man of her dreams, Paul Phillip. A buttoned-down lawyer, he may not be "exciting," but he makes Allie feel like a princess. Allie's twin sister, Zen, takes a chance on Allie and Paul Phillip's wedding caterer, Chris. Chris is more the hit 'em and quit 'em type, though. When Zen meets hip businessman Orlando, she thinks she's found what her sister has with Paul Phillip. Which sister will end up with her true love?

Get the Beltane audiobook on Spotify:

More audiobook links:

Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/925272680/Beltane

Kobo, Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/beltane-16?sId=d0f7b602-76d3-4ed1-83a7-52569c0446ad&ssId=DpGRGlhDgVxSRO1e5MzrI&cPos=1

NOOK Audiobooks: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beltane-erin-oriordan/1119711226;jsessionid=B41154652448A12A584C87045EC0889E.prodny_store01-atgap09?ean=2940203794277#

Happy reading!

Out Today: Saints and Sinners (25th Anniversary Edition) by All Saints

Happy 25th anniversary to the All Saints album Saints & Sinners! For the album's anniversary, the Britpop girl group has released a 25th anniversary edition with new tracks that include a remixed "Pure Shores" featuring electronic musician/dj Tourist (William Edward Phillips). 

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Shaznay Lewis's 2024 "Never Ever (Reimagined)"  

Audiobook Out Now: Morality Without God

Do human beings need God in order to be good? This is the question M.M. (Mangasar Magurditch) Mangasarian answers in this 1905 book. Mangasarian believes there are many reasons to believe people can and will be moral in the absence of worshipping a deity.

Links

Barnes and Noble/Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/morality-without-god-mm-mangasarian/1026602219?ean=2940203638144

Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/918898281/Morality-Without-God

Kobo, Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/morality-without-god-5?sId=5e5b55fa-0883-4e7e-93e7-8cfe6cdc6520&ssId=f9hKo7cGmGM0PwzaOD6KU&cPos=1

Born to Armenian parents in Turkey while it was part of the Ottoman Empire in 1859, Mangasarian was an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church. During the United States' Progressive era, he resigned from his pulpit in Philadelphia and become an independent pastor and a rationalist. After 1900 he led the rationalist Independent Religious Society of Chicago.

Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Audiobook Out Now

Who, or what, were the Devils of Loudun? 

Did Queen Elizabeth the First's friend and advisor John Dee know a man who talked to angels in their sacred language? 

Could Germany's so-called Seeress of Prevorst really find objects that had been hidden by the dead? 

These questions are explored, along with eight additional stories of history's celebrated (supposed) ghosts and what the author calls "human enigmas," in Historical Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/920685344/Historic-Ghosts-and-Ghost-Hunters

Kobo/Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/historic-ghosts-and-ghost-hunters-14

Or stream on Spotify.

Henry (H.) Addington Bruce (1874-1959) was a newspaper journalist whose career began in his native Toronto. He moved to the United States, where he worked for the American Press Association. His primary areas of interest were the psychology of the day and alleged psychical phenomena. A trustee of the American Society of Psychical Research, he tended to be skeptical of poltergeist claims but was open-minded on the questions of telepathy and other powers of the human mind.

October Prime Day: Amazon Prime Big Deal Days

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And, of course, I can't wait for Halloween. I can never get enough Halloween. I don't want any Christmas this year; I only want to celebrate Halloween from now until New Year's Eve.

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