Countdown to Halloween 2013 Day 20: Witches Free Daily Cards At Superhero City

Superhero City is celebrating Herotober by offering Witches Free Daily Cards:

I love the sexy green-skinned witch with a super large purple pointy hat that matches her cape:

Countdown to Halloween 2013 Day 19: Zippo Shocktober Sweepstakes

Zippo is offering a chance to win the following five fiendish frighters this year (I really like the vampiress and hooded skull lighters):

You can enter the Zippo Shocktober Sweepstakes here.

Countdown to Halloween 2013 Day 18: Elvira on TV Weekly 1982

Here is Elvira on the cover of TV Weekly October 24 to 30, 1982:

Picture courtesy of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (official)

Countdown to Halloween 2013 Day 17: Demons Ability Set At Superhero City

You got to hand it to Superhero City for they are one of the few Facebook games that I still play. They start the Halloween season by offering a Demons ability set that includes Hellfire, Scales of the Demon and Wings of the Demon.

Countdown to Halloween 2013 Day 16: Women Wednesday: Elvira With Soska Sisters

This picture of Elvira with the Soska Sisters, Jen and Sylvia, plus two other unidentified women (I believe the blonde is Laurene London) is actually from Monster Fest 2012:

Picture courtesy of Monster Pictures.

Countdown to Halloween 2013 Day 15: I, Frankenstein Official Trailer

Wow, this official trailer for I, Frankenstein starring Aaron Eckhart as Adam looks pretty cool:

Countdown to Halloween 2013 Day 14: Elvira Maquette

I wish I could afford this:

You can pre-order your exclusive Elvira cold cast porcelain maquette (scale model) on October 25 for the special edition and on October 28 for the regular edition at Tweeterhead. The special edition is pictured above and includes the official logo nameplate, a special hand numbered backstamp on the base, signed by Chad Colebank, founer of Tweeterhead, and two Certificates of Authenticity (one hand numbered and signed by sculpter Trevor Grove and one signed by Chad Colebank).

Countdown to Halloween 2013 Day 13: Thrift Store Finds: Frankie McDonald In Haunted America

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.