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Through the centuries, the vampire myth has taken many different forms.
vampires

Five Vampire Stories You Haven’t Heard Yet

From Dracula’s Indian inspiration to just how long it would take these mythical bloodsuckers to annihilate humanity.
April White October 5, 2022
Witches.
Yokohama, Japan

Green Thumb

Home to herbal cosmetics, teas, and a unique set of dolls known as kitchen witches.
A lumpy dumb cake on its way to be baked.
food

The Historical Halloween Cake That Reveals Your Future Spouse

Can a "dumb cake" help you discover your fate?
Anne Ewbank November 6, 2021
List

13 Hotels Where the Frills Are Chills

Come for the comfortable accommodations, stay for the ghostly stories.
Jonathan Carey October 29, 2021
Assorted people pot pie facial features.
food

The Macabre Art of Baking ‘People Pot Pies’

Crafting skin and flesh from the sweet and tasty.
Leigh Chavez-Bush October 28, 2021
Bobbing for apples in the early 1900s.
food

Halloween Used to Be a Lot More Romantic

The food rituals of All Hallows' Eve once predicted marriages and summoned spouses.
Anne Ewbank October 26, 2021
List

10 Places Where It Seems Like Vampires Are More Than Myth

Sometimes superstition leaves a mark on the world.
Jonathan Carey October 22, 2021
A smashed pumpkin might be the trick, regardless of the presence of a treat.
graffiti

Why Is Mischief Night Different From All Other Nights?

How a local tradition has hung on for centuries.
Dan Nosowitz October 21, 2021
St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans
Itinerary

Restless Spirits of Louisiana

A haunted jaunt through the Pelican State reveals hidden histories told through the lives of the deceased. Bring a flashlight—it gets dark.
Chapel interior.
List

9 Places in Vermont to Go Before You Die—or After

Death finds us all, whether you’re a jilted lover, an ice cream flavor, or a mythological deer-boar.
List

These 11 Puppet Palaces Around the World Will Thrill and Terrify You

Humanoid figurines can range from charmingly whimsical to spine-tinglingly creepy.
Diana Hubbell October 11, 2021
Two siblings—Aiko and her brother Isamu—pose in their masks in the yard of their family home on Los Feliz Boulevard near Griffith Park, where their parents ran a flower nursery. This photo, taken in 1925, was collected as part of Shades of L.A., an outreach program the library conducted in the 1990s to diversify its photo collection.
libraries

Explore a Century of Halloween in L.A. Through Vintage Photographs

An eerie/fun glimpse into the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.
April White October 8, 2021
List

Visiting 10 of Our Favorite Spooky Local Legends

The best kind of lore is the kind right under your nose.
Jonathan Carey October 8, 2021
Vintage advertisements prominently featured Mr. Spudnut.
food

Resurrecting the Spudnut, America's Forgotten Halloween Treat

Bake the recipe remnant of a potato doughnut empire that once stretched from the United States to Japan.
Diana Hubbell October 7, 2021
"People who come in the daytime say, 'I bet it's scary here at night,'" says Edwards. She offers Halloween tours of the eerie property.
horror

This Halloween, Step Into a Mannequin Graveyard

You can even take these unnerving, almost-human figures home with you.
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank October 5, 2021
The mountain of mannquins.
Fulbeck, England

Mannakin Hall

This 20-foot mountain is made up of some 15,000 mannequins—if you visit, you can even take a piece home with you.
Pustulus Maximus and Balsac the Jaws of Death of GWAR performing in October 2019 in San Francisco.
art

The Artist Collective That Brings Heavy Metal Fever Dreams to Life

For nearly 40 years, a rotating cast of artists has made costumes and props for GWAR—the band behind one of the world’s wildest stage shows.
Eric J. Wallace October 1, 2021
Four children in their Halloween costumes gathered around a jack-o-lantern in the 1960s.
halloween

Welcome to Atlas Obscura's Fright Club!

We love the month of October, so we're giving you 31 days of stories that will get you in the Halloween spirit.
Samir S. Patel October 1, 2021