October 15, 2024

31 Days of Halloween: October 15

Good evening, friends,

Some Halloween tidbits for you tonight.

Every year in October, game creator and artist Derek Yu draws a series of spooky pictures along with his daughter called the “Tiny Terror” series. They’re so cute and creepy and are such a fun way to get into the Halloween mood as a family — I love them! (Thank you, Greg, for sending them to me!)

× Close dialog A black and white illustration of a little guy being chased by a monster that looks like he's sewn together

× Close dialog A drawing of a young witch with flames coming out of her hands, and a cat next to her chasing a butterfly

Louis Zong releases a cute little ghost-y song every October, and his tune for 2024 is out now: Ghosta Nova!

× Close dialog An illustration of ghosts singing in a stairwell as other ghosts look on, and a person with a pumpkin head strums a guitar

This online candy store has a bunch of sweet sweets-related facts, including the most popular candies for each US state. It says M&Ms for Oregon, which is hard to argue with, I suppose!

× Close dialog Halloween Candy Quick Facts. 172 million Americans celebrate Halloween. 32% of all Halloween purchases are made online. The top costumes fro pets are pumpkin and hot dog. Among those who celebrate Halloween, 95% will purchase candy. They will spend about $31.69 on average. Most Halloween shopping is done the first 2 weeks of October. In Oregon, full-sized candy bars are the norm for trick-or-treaters to receive. Overall Halloween spending is expected to be $11.6B in 2022. Over 50% of parents stash some Halloween candy to enjoy later in the year

(Also, this graphic says that people in Oregon give out full-sized candy bars?! Citation needed; I’ve never been trick-or-treating here so I have no idea if that’s true or not.)

× Close dialog A Venn diagram showing the crossover between bites people, undead, and nocturnal. The results are zombies (bites, undead), werewolves (bites, nocturnal), and ghouls (nocturnal, undead) with vampires in the center of all three.

Til tomorrow,
Laura

Laura E. Hall
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