Yesterday's thrift store hunt netted me two interesting items for only a buck fifty plus tax. The first is a book entitled
Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott (Tor; October 1995). I had to pick it up since it was only a dollar.
From the back of the book:
"Flying Dutchmen, poltergeists, vengeful wraiths, child ghosts, phantom trains, houses of evil, headless horsemen...
Haunted America takes you on a grand tour of ghostly hauntings through the U.S. and Canada, sweeping from terrifying battlefield specters at Little Bighorn to a vaudeville palace in Tampa, from ghostly apparitions in President Garfield's home in Ohio to the White House in Washington, D.C."
The second item was Ronald McDonald wearing a Frankenstein monster costume. The costume itself is in two parts with a hole for his eyes. This was part of the Halloween Happy Meal toy set from 1995 that also featured Grimace as a ghost, Hamburglar as Dracula and Birdie as a pumpkin. Unfortunately, I didn't find those three figures.
I think Ronald McDonald is scarier without the Frankenstein costume:
I really love the Frankenstein costume even if he does have a goofy grin:
What makes the costume is the details like the spider, hole and patch on the back:
Not a bad Halloween toy find for fifty cents.
1 comment:
Both great! Love books like that, bet it is a fun read. And the toy is cool - never saw that before! Wish they did more like this.
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