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October 27, 2025

[31 Days of Halloween] October 26

Spooky vintage images and Dracula's historic cuisine

Good eeevening, my little ghosties,

Animation of a skeleton in a graveyard dancing with its hands on its own knees

Some eerie images from days of yore.

An etching of two terrified burglars, one of whom has his hand stuck in a skeleton's mouth
"A Burglar Bitten by a Skeleton," Illustrated Police News, June 27, 1874

A vintage staged photo showing two people acting terrified by a figure in the corner with a pumpkin-like head, draped in a sheet. A woman turns, startled, and a man lays on his back as if his chair has been knocked over
1865, London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images

Three children in creepy masks lean over a lit jack o'lantern
1953, Bettmann Archive

A young girl sits on a bench next to an apparently headless scarecrow
1990s, lil ol me

From Tasting History with Max Miller, “Dracula’s Paprika Hendl from Bram Stoker’s 1897 Novel”.

A plate of chicken and other food

Goes deep into historical meals of the time and other foods mentioned in the book which is my kinda Halloween.

Til tomorrow,
Laura

October 26, 2025

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