This wide-eyed beauty is my youngest granddaughter, the abovenamed Araya Sunshine Martin.  Yes, if you say her first and middle names alo...

The First Trick-or-Treat   The ones who first cried “Trick or Treat” Wore costumes made of leaves -- They did not ask, but ...

They came out in 1964.  It was with much joy and jubilation that I received one soon afterwards! You poured the Plastigoop into the met...

  Here is last year's Haloween compilation, lost to history when Megaupload was seized.    By the way, the above is the or...

      This is the third of the Aurora monster models that I -- err, borrowed -- from my big brother, along with a smaller plstic ac...

      This cute page is from the October 1964 Jack and Jill .  It takes a certain kind of talent to come up with gentle humor that ...

I picked up these and a set based on the 1932 The Mummy at a dollar store a few years ago.  As you can see by the lower left item, t...

  Meanwhile, in stately Wayne Manor ...  WAIT A MINUTE!  This is stately TALBOT Manor, sorry about that!     Larry is calibra...

    Helen Grosvenor has decided that she doesn;t want eternal life with ol' Imhotep, so she hollers for help.      In...

In 1987, Carl's Jr used this bucket for one of their kid's meals.  Featuring America's "First Family of Fright," the M...

Here's the second release in Oddio Overplay's Halloween assemblage.  Once again, this is a fine compilation that is no longer availa...

More coloring book pages . . . These four pages, with their left-and-right views of supposedly the same scene, are the coloring-boo...

    A couple of activity pages from the October 1964 Jack and Jill .     I feel happy that my eight-year-old self didn'...

Here are more pages from the coloring book.  It seems that The Mummy, with 11 pages, gets the most coverage of all the monsters in this book...

Soon after it came out, I bought the model of the eponymous Alien film.  It didn't last long in its assembled state, and by now I'v...

    This is another of my big brother's masterpieces, the 1962 Aurora Wolf Man.  The box looked like this: Now, the box art ...

More from the coloring book:   Statistically, more vampires prefer a hot stake (steak) to a cold chop (in the neck) -- wokka wokka...

This gem was assembled by Oddio Overplay  a few years ago but it's no longer active on their site.  So here it is, along with disc a...

This is the last Halloween-related item from the October 1965 Golden Magazine .   Some of the ladies I love have LOTS of these ...

Here's the do-it-yourself calendar page from the October, 1964 Jack & Jill.  The days of the wek don;t match this year, but it...