HALLOWEEN

About the Book

This big, informed, witty, and entertaining book, actually several books in one, covers all the aspects of the secular holiday unlike any other. “Only the exhaustive is interesting.” - Thomas Mann

HALLOWEEN HISTORY AND TRADITION, THE JACK-O’- LANTERN, TRICK OR TREAT, HOLIDAY FOLKLORE, MASKS AND VARIOUS COSTUMES, HALLOWEEN BUSINESS, HALLOWEEN AROUND THE WORLD, HALLOWEEN PARADES AND PARTIES, HALLOWEEN RECIPES AND PARTY IDEAS, HALLOWEEN STORIES AND OTHER LITERATURE, HUNDREDS OF BIG AND SMALL SCREEN DELIGHTS FOR YOUR WATCHING AT HALLOWEEN WITH A FULL, CASUAL, GIANT ANNOTATED FILMOGRAPHY, & COMMENTS ON HORROR IN ARTS OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY.

About the Author

Leonard R. N. Ashley (PhD, Princeton), LHD( Columbia Theological) is professor emeritus of Brooklyn College of The City University of New York and among his many books on literature, folklore, military history, and literature has authored eleven popular works on the occult now available in US and UK editions, some also in German, Dutch, and Italian translations.