St. Nicked by Damon SuedeSt. Nicked: There`s no gift like the present.
Holidays this fun can’t be legal. When a cat burglar dressed as Santa targets a glitzy Manhattan high-rise, the holidays get unhinged.
As superintendent, Mark Almeida needs to keep the residents safe, and as a former NYPD cop, he knows he can crack the case without any help… until he meets a suave stranger too handsome for his own good who pushes buttons Mark didn’t know he had.
As the holly-jolly crime spree unfolds, Mark wrestles with duty and desire while juggling festive clues, lavish gifts, and stolen kisses in time for a truly crooked Christmas.
St. Nicked, the newest contemporary romance from Damon Suede, combines the tension of a mystery with feel-good romance in a way only Damon can deliver.
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Meet the Author
Damon Suede… between soft and rough
Damon Suede grew up out-n-proud deep in the anus of right-wing America, and escaped as soon as it was legal. He has lived all over: Houston, New York, London, Prague. Along the way, he’s earned his crust as a model, a messenger, a promoter, a programmer, a sculptor, a singer, a stripper, a bookkeeper, a bartender, a techie, a teacher, a director... but writing has ever been his bread and butter. He has been happily partnered for over a decade with the most loving, handsome, shrewd, hilarious, noble man to walk this planet.
Addictions: sweetness that isn’t sentimental, wit that isn’t bitter, strength that isn’t cruel. Allergies: professional victims, half-assery, clichés.
Beyond romance fiction, Damon has been writing for print, stage, and screen for over three decades, which is both more and less glamorous than you might imagine. He`s won some awards, but his blessings are more numerous: his amazing friends, his demented family, his beautiful husband, his loyal fans, and his silly, stern, seductive Muse who keeps whispering in his ear, year after year.
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Let’s dabble with a little black magic, shall we? With the arrival of October, the spooks and ghouls are begging to come out and play. Of course, thoughts also turn to vampires. Many of you are probably familiar with Jeaniene Frost’s books. I am a newcomer to these books, but they are full of fun and excitement. Avon Books, publisher of the Cat and Bones series, has Jeaniene’s e-book, Halfway to the Grave on sale for $1.99! From personal experience, let me give you a word of advice…PICK IT UP!!
This deal will expire around Halloween so hurry! What are you waiting for? Oh, I see. You want me to weave you a little spell? Here it is:
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Charity Parkerson
13 years agoWhen I was a little girl my sister and I would walk down the road (let me add we lived way out in the country and down the road means: way too far to be sending little kids out alone nowadays) to see my great, great aunt who was extremely old. We did this because, every year she made a special batch of corn bread just for us. We would knock on her door and yell Trick-or Trick!! She'd smile, so happy to see us, and then dump a big handful of that cornbread in our trick-or-treat bags, no ziploc, on saran wrap NOTHING! That is why she was our first stop so that we could wait until we were further down the road and shake our bags out in ditch, before continuing on our way to get the actual candy 🙂
Audra Holtwick
13 years agoOur church has a halloween party – then we take our lile goblins through the neighborhood for treats no tricks.
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Jo Jones
13 years agoI helped do a haunted house for all my sons friends when they were 9,7, and 6. Everyone had a blast and iIstill have pictures of them in their costumes. They are now 44, 42, and 40.
CateS
13 years agoOur Halloween tradition is to go to the university's auditorium and watch a silent film like Frankenstein complete with wonderful organ accompiment… Kinda a campy and not to scary – there's even a costume competition prior to the movie! We live out in the country where no one comes to 'trick or treat'….
Michele
13 years agoa halloween tradition for me is to light a candle for each prson i have lost and offer treats to encourage my ancestors to visit me on the night the veil thins. Then i usually kick back on my porch to enjoy the weather and catch up on my reading. 🙂
I would love to win your contest and i just loved your little spell.
Thanks again.
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Tanja Haack
13 years agoIn our neighborhood, trick or treating isn't just for the kids. The adults get a fair amount of treats too. Beer, wine, shots, food, whatever an inventive neighbor has come up with to help parents with the long night ahead.
Lisa Burdette
13 years agoFirst I just love Jeaniene Frost, and Bones is my absolute favorite vamp. When I was in HS my friends and I went through a haunted hotel ( old aband.) We were walking to the up stairs with yours truly in the front when a figure of aperson walks by the top of the steps. Everyone screemed and ran except me, I was frozen scared. I really was so scared I couldnt move. It turned out to be a friend who came in from another set of stairs… but I do know fear can freeze you in your tracks!!!
Cathy Wellman
13 years agoI just love this series, Bones & Cat and everyone eles just keeps you reading all night. I wouldn’t mind helping them with their daily romp, I was in the grave yard one Halloween with a friend and we were doing a lil haunting ourselves,when out of the corner of my eyes I see this mist form above this grave from 1832 it was a women that was killed on Halloween for black magic .My friend and I were so freaked out that we seen this we both said at the same time is that the lady of the night that is supposed to come out and play every Halloween? It said yes it is I and you should not be here this night go home now !!!! Needless to say we went running out of there so fast are hearts burning, We couldn’t believe we just seen that. So every year at midnight we go back and wait to see if she comes to scare us out again,but so far she hasn’t.
Nikki
13 years agoMy favorite memory of Halloween would have to be my daughters second one:) She was born in March so her first one doesn't really count. I over did it with her that day because we went trick or treating at the mall and a few other places, like down town and the Childrens musuem. I'm a new mom so I was determined that she enjoy all of it. We went to a haunted hayride that night too. But when we did actual neighborhood trick or treating my little one all dressed up in her witched costume refused to walk and refused to knock on the door. Needless to say we only went to a few houses and came home 🙂 I can't wait for this year! Shes 2 now and she can say trick or treat and I have the same stuff lines up for her but she is going as super girl 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway! Ive always loved Halloween but its sooo much more fun with my daughter!!
Crystal @ My Reading Room
13 years agoWhat I remember about Halloween as a kid was the fact that it never failed if I had a costume that was warm, it would be hot that Halloween and if I was something like a fairy or princess it would be cold. That was life on the coast of NC. Now I see that for my boys. Not that they go out in tiny strapless gowns 😉 But some costumes are heavier than others. This year my 10-year-old will be a dracula-type vampire, scary and blood-dripping and I can't wait. I still have to figure out what to dress up as, DH and I dress up to trick or treat with the boys it's fun to see the people's faces.
Sapphyria
13 years agoMy favorite Halloween tradition from my childhood includes my family (parents, sister, and I) and my cousins (my mother's brother and his family), and his wife's sisters/brothers and their families. So to recap–my sister and I, our cousins, and our cousins' cousins. Instead of trick-or-treating through neighborhoods and going to strangers' homes, each year we would have a huge Halloween party (a different home each year) and trick-or-treating would happen throughout the property. Each adult would be at a different spot on the property, including inside the house, and we would all just go from place to place until the candy was gone. When we had it at our house, my parents set up a Haunted Trail through the woods at the back of the property and we had a huge bonfire. At any given time there was at least 11-12 adults and 15+ kids of various ages. I really miss those days.
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trader
13 years agoawesome contest for an awesome book! Cat and Bones and the rest of the Night Huntress crew are my favorite supes. I just shared my books with a coworkers wife and she's loving them! Halloween is always a fun time in our house, decorating come first and then the costumes, but its always fun to see others costumes.
Kathryn Merkel
13 years agoMy family owned a video store for several years. We would decorate the store up for halloween, all the employees would dress up & we gave a free movie rental to all the kids who came in to show us their costume.
Wendy Hoffman
13 years agoOur family tradition : Every year we get out the decorations on the first weekend in October and decorate. Adding at least one new thing each year. Then on trick or treat night the neighborhood kids and parents end their rounds here for a costume party and games! We have so much fun it is our favorite holiday!
Cat and Bones are an amazing pair! She is so feisty and he is just scrumptious! They keep each other on their toes. I love getting into one of their stories it always makes my day!
Thanks for the opportunity and letting me share 🙂
Anonymous
13 years agoOur family tradition : Every year we get out the decorations on the first weekend in October and decorate. Adding at least one new thing each year. Then on trick or treat night the neighborhood kids and parents end their rounds here for a costume party and games! We have so much fun it is our favorite holiday!
Cat and Bones are an amazing pair! She is so feisty and he is just scrumptious! They keep each other on their toes. I love getting into one of their stories it always makes my day!
Thanks for the opportunity and letting me share 🙂
Jessica McLean
13 years agoCat and Bones has made my day ever since the first time i picked up the first book. I instantly fell in love with Cat's character, seeing that her temperment was a lot like mine I just add to see what would happen next. These books are impossible to put down especially after you connect to the characters. The power that Cat and Bones gives off, the temperments of both of them, and the smartass comments from all of the main characters, makes my day. 🙂 Happy Halloween All!
Missy
13 years agoI love your books Jeaniene! Cat and Bones are great together!! I think Spade may be my favorite though:) My most memorable Halloween would have to be when my brother and I were little, my mom had made us Raggedy Ann and Andy costumes., we had the wigs and makeup to boot. Spent the night trick or treating, walking for hours. I remember when we could do this without having our parents hold our hand the whole evening (oh, have times changed). Anyway, my mom had saved the costumes. To this day, they are still in pristine condition and my daughter wore my costume a few years ago. She was adorable!! It was too bad none of boys would wear the Andy costume (they said it was too girly) BOYS!!!
Michelle Bledsoe
13 years agoMy favorite Halloween memories have to do with my daughter. From the time she could pick out her own costume, it was always some kind of feline. One year a black cat, the next a tiger, and so on. I would get her dressed up and we would go to the neighborhood houses. I loved to see her reactions to all the decorations and other costumes. She's a teenager now and goes celebrates Halloween with friends now. I really miss her younger years.
Yadira A.
13 years agoHalloween brings back lots of memories from my childhood but most especially the time when my parents decided to have a haunted house in the garage and basement of our house. My mom was pregnant (twins) at the time that we were doing the set-up and they came just in time to celebrate with us:) We thought we'd have to cancel everything, but the twins made perfect timing. The party and Haunted House was a blast and the twins (although they can't remember that time) were the bells of the ball and had a great time! Lots of family and friends on hand to give my mom a break too:)
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Cat & Bones (enough said) 🙂 Thanks for the AWESOME giveaway!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Everyone!!!
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Mel Thomas
13 years agoI don't have any Halloween traditions so I will talk about the greatness that is the Night Huntress World. Cat, Bones and the rest of the crew (um hello Vlad) make even the worst of days better. From the first page of Halfway to the Grave I was hooked. The chemistry between Cat and Bones is incredible and because of that, lots of action, great plot and super sexy vampires, the Night Huntress series quickly became my favorite. Anytime I'm down I pick up one of the books. They get me out of my head for awhile and never fail to put a smile on my face.
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Jille
13 years agoOur family Halloween tradition involves my 9 year old son helping me hand out candy. Grandma comes over and hands it out while he and I go trick or treating. He is such a little helper, that he enjoys giving out the candy more than getting it for himself. We trick or treat for an hour and then come back and have fun giving out goodies to all the kids. We LOVE Halloween and our yard is already full of the Air blow ups, pumpkins and other ghostly goodies. It is also a favorite of ours to celebrate our loved ones who have passed on, when the veil is the thinnest between their world and ours.
I haven't read these books yet but am going to go order mine as soon as this post is done. They sound positively spooktacular!! 😉
Sheryl
13 years agoI think what I remember most about Halloween when I was growing up, was trying to decide what I would dress up as each year. I always had a hard time deciding, but I was a vampire one year and a witch the next. That was it!!! I was never a princess or anything cute and cuddly, I always wanted to be the scary one!!!
I totally love reading about Cat and Bones!!! I was hooked from the very first book and I have them all on my bookshelf. As a matter of fact, I just downloaded Halfway to the Grave to my Kindle because I want to get them all saved on there as well. I can't wait to read the "Night Prince" series as well. Thanks Jeaniene for the great storytelling.
JeanP
13 years agoFavorite memory for me was when I was a kid, got to dress up (first major big costume) and go trick or treating in town. We lived on a farm, so it was a bit of a haul to get into town and since Halloween falls at the time it does, we were usually harvesting, so time out for trick or treating was a rare treat. Enjoy Halloween now by watching all the neighborhood kids and their costumes. Happy Halloween everyone.
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ForeverReading1
13 years agoMy most memorable Halloween was the last time I went out for trick or treat, because at 12, I felt next year I would be too old. My sisters, brother, neighbors, friends, and myself walked to a haunted house miles away while stopping for candy along the way. After the haunted house we went to a place called the Tobacco Barn. Every Halloween they clear out the barn and set up carnival booths, games, etc., like a mini Halloween fair inside and around the barn. My mother would let us stay out late on Halloween and my sisters, brother and I were sugar-drunk happy on the way home because we knew Mom would confiscate the bags of candy and dole out two pieces of candy every other day.
Glady
13 years agoMy Dynamic Duo (Hubby – Eric and Daughter – Erys) and I go to the local pumpkin patch where my labor started every year for her birthday, which was October 8th. I was on strict bed rest for past two months due to early dilation and when I went to the Doctors that day, She said it would be OK for me to walk around a bit. Erys was coming early no matter what. But at 30 weeks the doctor wasn’t too worried. So after the appointment… Eric and I went to the pumpkin patch like we do every year, looked around at the decorations and my “smart” beep decided to pick up a 10 pound pumpkin. Whoopssss! The next day a beautiful 4lb, 09oz baby girl was brought into our world. She rocks us every day!!! Thank God she loves Halloween, Zombies, Vampires and Ghosts!!! Our world is now complete!!!
Cat and Bones make my day because it reminds me of my relationship with my husband. We would both do whatever it takes to be by each other’s side…
Gladys Gonzales Atwell
13 years agoMy Dynamic Duo (Hubby – Eric and Daughter – Erys) and I go to the local pumpkin patch where my labor started every year for her birthday, which was October 8th. I was on strict bed rest for past two months due to early dilation and when I went to the Doctors that day, She said it would be OK for me to walk around a bit. Erys was coming early no matter what. But at 30 weeks the doctor wasn’t too worried. So after the appointment… Eric and I went to the pumpkin patch like we do every year, looked around at the decorations and my “smart” beep decided to pick up a 10 pound pumpkin. Whoopssss! The next day a beautiful 4lb, 09oz baby girl was brought into our world. She rocks us every day!!! Thank God she loves Halloween, Zombies, Vampires and Ghosts!!! Our world is now complete!!!
Cat and Bones make my day because it reminds me of my relationship with my husband. We would both do whatever it takes to be by each other’s side…
Roxanne Rhoads
13 years agoHalloween is huge with my family- we start planning months ahead of time for costumes and events. I ahve 3 kids and I've made October our businest month. There's always so many Halloween and Harvest events we try to take the kids to all of them so they can have as much fun as possible.
I think our biggest family tradition though is our annual pumpkin carving party.
We grow a small patch of pumpkins so the entire family can pick out a pumpkin then a couple nights before Halloween everyone comes over for the party- family, friends…it's a night filled with pumpkin guts and laughter LOL We carve up the pumpkins and just have a blast being together.
I hope I'm helping create memories for my children that will last a lifetime and perhaps be shared with their kids one day.
Lindsay
13 years agoMy mom and I have always been on our own. So when I was a little girl trick or treating was always hard. It was just us and not a whole lot of cash. I remember this one year after Watching Charlie Brown's Halloween asking my mom for a pumpklkin patch. No small feat when you live in a tiny apartment. Well I came home from school the night of Halloween ready to go out for the best night of the year ith my mom and found her sitting on our little patio surrounded by pumkins, big and small. she had made my own pumpkin patch come true. We "picked" a pumpkin, carved it and pput it outside the step of the apartment building. To op off that treat she had sewn me a pumpkin costume. It remains to this day the best holiday memory I have. It always trumps Christmas and my Birthday. I wait every year for Halloween and now that its almost here this year, I cant wait. I hope to one day be able to give my children the memories that my mom has given me.
chey
13 years agoI remember being so excited to wear my Halloween costume. Then it got cold and snowed. I had to wear my skipants and parka over top of my costume and slog through about 6 inches of snow to go trick or treating!
sgeorge
13 years agoMy favorite Halloween memory is from highschool. I was in the drama club and our small town Rotary club asked us to help build and participate in the local Haunted house. It was so much fun building the sets and getting everyone in the ghoulish makeup……..we had more fun the nights it was open trying to scare each other.
Margaret
13 years agoI remember always having the same two costumes. I was a gypsy every year because my Mom did not know how to put together any other costume. Of course they did not have the selection available like they do now and of course money was tight. One year I went as a princess (a friend made the costume for me) and I was in heaven! I try to make it fun for my kids now and let them have a variety of choices and what does my daughter want to be this year a gypsy. Go figure!
Margaret
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Barbs
13 years agoThis Halloween is special, I think, as I'm making 3 y.o. grandson a Batman costume, I made his father one when he was 5 and he's almost 40 now LOL
My memories of Halloween are great–it's been so long ago that the houses as well as the candy givers were dressed for it too and didn't even scare us.
We live in an older neighborhood so not too many Trick-or-Treaters but the few are so cute! Some years we have 10 but the last couple of years it's been 20+
DeeAnn S
13 years agoOur Halloween tradition is to go to a local farm that sets up lots of fun things to do. We like to take a hay ride, pick out our pumpkin for carving, buy some apple cider, munch on burgers & franks, and just generally have a wonderful time. Even though the kids are getting older, they still enjoy getting together for the day. Thanks.
Sharla L
13 years agoA couple years ago we bought our son a werewolf costume but didn't tell him. My husband put it on that night and hid on the back porch by the kitchen window. I asked my son to get me a cup of coffee (coffee pot right by the window) which he nicely did but as he got to the counter, he glanced out the window and just kind of froze then yelled! All I could think was "Oh, don't throw the cup through the window!" He was so angry with us for that but he had the best time trick-or-treating – and he was actually nice enough to take the mask off when he scared the younger kids!
Happy Halloween!
Viki S.
13 years agoThe funniest one I remember was when I was 11 and dressed up as a gypsy. I stuffed my mothers 32 DD bra to the max. She would let me go trick or treating until after I did this dishes. Well I had suds all over my new chest and by the time I was done they were just plain soggy. I complained to her – "How can you stand these things? They're always in the way!" I told her I NEVER wanted to be like her and she told me to be careful I might damn myself. Well, I am very happy with my 34A. They never get in the way :).
Melora Brock
13 years agoMy favorite memory was when I was around 5 or 6 years old. I seem to remember that it was snowing, and dad and I were out trick or treating in my neighborhood when we saw a tabby cat. We petted it, as cats are our weakness, and continued around the neighborhood. Afterawhile, we realized that the cat was following us all around. We wound up keeping her and calling her Pumpkin.
She turned out to be pregnant, so later on I got to see my first litter of kittens too. She was a sweetie.
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June M.
13 years agoOne funny memory I have of Halloween is when my nieces and oldest nephew was little. My youngest niece was going through a stage to where masks scared her (any kind, but makeup, no matter how scary, did not effect her at all). Anyway, this one house we went to, the guy jumped out and "Boo'd", wearing a mask. Of course my niece, about 6 at the time, screamed and started crying. The man was so upset, he threw the mask, kept appolgizing, and putting handful after handful of candy in her treat bag.
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susan croft
13 years agosome say cat(s) don't like bones but, in my experience when it comes to jeaniene frost cat(s) love bones – especially when they're strong, brave and sexy as all heck – Halloween has always been special – I think people can be who they really are or can be what they always wanted to be – in one word – FUN-
jennifer mathis
13 years agowe enjoy decorating ur house and watching as the kids reqiure being drug into our yard by their parents cause while they ae scaried dad really wants to look lol
DebP
13 years agoHalloween memory,: In Jr .high school ,our English teacher wanted us to do some Halloween drawings and one student made a cardboard coffin to decorate the classroom. My drawing was of a werewolf's face,with alitte bit of blood coming from the side of his mouth. Other classmates said the werewolf looked alot like our teacher. On halloween day, in class ,the teacher read out loud Edgar Allan Poe's (The Tell Tale Heart) in the DARK. How cool was that. We loved it. Happy Halloween
miki
13 years agoWe don't celebrate halloween in my country or at least it started only the last years and it's not common. However, in my roleplyaing club we do a special session for this occasion with costume, suspens scénario and such…my favorite memorie is from two year ago….i served them a special drink (red) in crane cup…and at the beginning they didn't register it was a crane so when one started they didn't dare to touch it again and tryied to guiess what they were drinking….to this day they still haven't discovered the recipe^^
I love the way cat and bones balance each other, i dream to meet my other half so well assorted^^
and on a more realistic point of vue: i hope this give away is international, it wasn't precised but i hope so ^^ figer crossed.
thanks you
Connie Fischer
13 years agoThis is a story that shows even "older" people can enjoy Halloween. Since my husband and I are a little over the age limit to be able to go trick-or-treating for candy, my hubby does something else. He goes to his buddy's house down the street, puts a sheet over his head and rings the doorbell. When his friend answers the door, he finds my husband with a sheet over his body, his hand sticking out holding an EMPTY wine glass and he yells, "Trick-or-Treat!" This has been a fun tradition for several years now. Who says adults can't enjoy Halloween too?!
sue brandes
13 years agoI love the heat factor between Cat and Bones. My favorite Halloween memory is from one year my son(around 8yrs old) & I went Trick or Treating in our neighborhood. We came upon this house that seemed all quiet until we starting getting closer and a guy whom was dressed up real spooky jumped out from his little shed. We both screamed at the top of our lungs. He gave us extra candy and we almost had a heart attack. LOL.
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desiree
13 years agoyou want to hear funny one in the early 60s we wrer kids and my aunt was going to marry a guy well he was over 6 7 and his brohter was over 6 4 well they dressed like franklin stein and mummy and had chains and every thing. well he came and nock on the door and someone answer it and my sister and youngest brother took off in to the bath room dawn fainted and dave was screamin and lock the bathroom well my soon to be uncle and dad went around back to open the bathroom windo and then dave sprayed him with shaving cream dawn fainted beacuse of the fake bloodi it was funny as hell
Jane
13 years agoI remember in elementary school we would have a costume party and while the costumes weren't as nice as the ones today, we all had a blast. I had a Wonder Woman mask that was my favorite.
cindy rushford
13 years agowell one of my favorite things to do is to get dressed up as we watch the neighbor-hood children and parents come for out goodies . We try to have hot choc to warm them on their way as well as all the goodies we give out. We uusally have cider for those who prefer it to the hot choc . It is a fun evening and we enjoy it immensley . Happy Halloween to you and may you avoid those vampire bites. Cindy
Lynn Hammons
13 years agoI love Cat and Bones along with the whole crew. I am waiting on pins and needles for Vlads book 🙂
Tatiana L.
13 years agoMy Halloween memory is quite a recent one
Dressing like a witch – that was so much fun!
Giving little ones some of the treats,
My sinister laughter was giving them creeps =)
Rachel Brooks
13 years agoI remember a friend and I went dressed as Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker in elementary school. Then while we were out trick-or-treating, we bumped into a stranger Darth Vader. We didn't know whether to run or fight a light saber battle! 🙂
Hollie
13 years agoI first found Cat in a used bookstore. I’m a person who is all about covers if a cover strikes me I’ll look up the author on my phone. This one caught ma and caught me good. I love Cat and Bones. Well maybe Bones more.
As for Halloween, my memorie is a little sad. I was too young to carve my pumpkin and we had older kids in my school help us out. Well when I got home I was not happy with it so I was touching it up. And I cut my finger open and spent the night in emergency. So I missed out on all the Halloween fun. And my brother made sure to rub it in.
Renee
13 years agoWe started a new tradition last year. We have a card club that gets together once a month and plays, nothing big just a group of frieds. Last year for October we had a halloween costume card night. We all had so much fun that we are doing it agian this year. Hove everyone has a Hapy Halloween and watch out for the vamps. I will have one in my house, thanks to my daughter.
Marissa
13 years agoMine is a memory – of the scariest Halloween a kid could have. It was October of 1970 or '71, we were 9 or 10 years old, and lived in a suburb east of San Francisco. A week or two before Halloween a rumor started going around through school that the Zodiac Killer had been spotted at the local community college just a few blocks away. Now, being kids, it just never occurred to us that no one knew what this guy really looked like so how could he have been spotted? That night, every adult was the Zodiac and every noise sent us jumping and screaming. We stayed out way past our normal Halloween curfew, looking for signs of the Zodiac. Never did find him, but we had the best and scariest Halloween ever!
Jessica S.
13 years agoHmm…not too much at Halloween time for me or ever! As a kid I always loved deciding what my costume was going to be! I also enjoy the return of Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins! They're so good! Love the loaded peanut butter!!
And I so heart Bones!!! He's the most scrumpilcious guy ever!! Love him! So wish I could trade lives with Cat!!
Claire Admire
13 years agoGrowing up, we had a family Halloween party at my grandparents house. All the cousins dressed up and each family brought candy. We'd set out 28 bags and fill them with goodies. It was a safe and fun way to celebrate.
Kristina Parmenter
13 years agoWe have this great halloween tradition where we decorate the yard and let the kids stay up late to run around with billowy sheets and scraps acting like ghosts. The past few years we have added decaying zombies and vampires to the mix..Im thinking werewolves this year! Happy halloweeen!
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Maria (pronounced Mariah)
13 years agoOur only halloween traditions are to carve pumpkins with our daughters & take them trick our treating.
Bones…what can I say!!! He is always at the top of my list of favorite leading . Yummy!!!!!!
Amy
13 years agoI don't really have a Halloween tradition, but for the past few years I've been doing this: doing my super evil laugh and scaring the kids before I open the door when they come trick or treating. I enjoy it if I give them a good scare.
I love Cat and Bones together because they have such sizzling chemistry. Bones' accent is awesome too.
Dot Derby
13 years agoI love the Bones and Cat Series. Bones and Cat have such good chemistry…and Bones is such a hunk. I also love the Night Huntress Series and am looking forward to Vlad's book, "Once Burned" in May 2012. Hope there is a book on Ian. (P.S. Excellent name given to Cat's kitty, Helsing! Might have to steal that one for my next cat.) My fondest memories of Halloween are carving pumpkins with my mom, creating/sewing a costume, and going trick-or-treating with my big sister. Now that I am married, my husband is sooo not into decorating – so my newest tradition is "torturing" him by decorating inside and out the house – – can never have too many decorations. Keep the books coming Jeaniene. Will be sad to see the series come to an end – – hope you can extend it!
Gabrielle J.
13 years agoI've haven't read any of this series but I've heard good things about it and I'd love to win one of the books! I don't know if we really have any Halloween traditions, there is this one thing though. Awhile back my mom bought this little black tree and for the last couple years or so she digs it out in October and decorates it with little skeletons,glow in the dark bats and little jack o lanterns that jingle.
I guess that's sort of tradition for her, we also sit back sometimes and watch Halloween movies or specials on tv.
Happy Halloween everybody!
Candice Debney
13 years agoWell don't have a certain Halloween memory that stands out, but I love taking my little man out trick or treating and seeing all the cool decorations. We just have so much fun with October and Halloween!! I'm also new to this series also but keep hearing great things about it, would love to read these books. Happy Halloween!!! 🙂
Quilt Lady
13 years agoMy favorite holloween memories are from when I was a kid, we didn't have costumes we dressed up in a little of everything that we could find at the house, we went out as hobos, babies, ghost using sheets. We would walk all over the comunity and collect hugh bags of candy, popcorn, apples. We didn't have to worry back then about checking the bags because we pretty much new everyone.
Jeanette Jackson
13 years agoOne Halloween we dressed my husband in a Gorilla suit and sat him on a chair beside the door. Well, one man bragged to his friends that he was going to kick the stuffed Gorilla. Just as he reared back his foot to kick, my husband jumped up and roared at him. He ran screaming down the street as his buddies laughed.
Karen Michelle Nutt
13 years agoWhen the kids were younger, we took them to the annual Halloween party at my mother-in-laws church. They had games and a haunted house or maze. The kids had a blast. Now that they are older, we each choose a scary or Halloween themed movie to watch throughout the month of October. My favorite is Hocus Pocus. I just get a kick out that movie.
I would love to be entered in your contest. 🙂 Here's wishing you a very happy Halloween!
Gail S
13 years agoLove Cat & Bones! My favorite part of Halloween is dressing up. I've loved this part since I was little, no pre made costumes for me. My Mom would always find stuff that I could dress up in, and I got older I created my own. Some of the best I've done with full makeup are a clown, a bloody vampire, a gypsy, the scarevrow from the Wizard of OZ. Another memory is the family event of carving the pumpkin. Dad would find a perfect pumpkin, Mom would design the spooky (demon) face, and Dad & I would carve and make pumpkin seeds. I passed that fun to my daughter and she is now a Halloween nut too.
tranpreet
13 years agoOne tradition we have on halloween is doing apple picking in the front yard for any tricker treeters who perfer to have some one, but in the pot are all storts of tricks and treats and thats what makes it soo fun becase no one knows what a person will bring out. 🙂
Karen H in NC
13 years agoIf my senior memory doesn't fail me, I remember loving to go out trick or treating. Being the youngest of 3 kids, I had to go with my 2 older brothers. They didn't seem to mind dragging me along and walked slowly so I could keep up. Of course at that time, I lived in Michigan, so the traditional Halloween costume was a snowsuit and mask. I don't think that has changed much over the years. The only time I got to wear a costume was at my school Halloween party!
Kathryn Meyer Griffith
13 years agoAh, a Halloween memory…when I was a child, oh, so long, long ago in the 50's and 60's, my six brothers and sisters and I used to dress up in hand-me-down clothes as bums and jewerly draped gypsies and sheet covered ghosts. We's burst out of our old rambling house in the woods and fly down the tree covered roads in the rainy misty night trailing our huge paper bags behind us. We'd laugh and scare each other as we traipsed from one house to another doing tricks (my brother and I would sing songs our grandmother had taught us) and beg for the candy our parents could never afford to buy. It was better than Christmas to children withforever hungry sweet teeth. The night would be haunted with childrens' laughter and ghostly shadows flitting in the dark around us. The headless horseman would gallop by and vampires would sneak through the woods behind us…but we always kept a step ahead of them all. Protecting our goodies. As our bags filled up and overflowed. Then, tired but happy, we'd drag our bodies home to gloat over our hard-earned booty. Candy-corn, caramel apples and sticky popcorn balls….candy bars as big as plates. Mom would have hot bowls of Chili and cups of cocoa with marshmellows on top waiting for us. Our grandmother would show up later at our front door dressed up as a witch with her black dress, pointed hat and green face. Pretending to be a night creature and grinning at her joke. I can still hear her cackling to this day long after she'd become a ghost herself. Ah, she so loved Halloween. For us all a night of magic. All these memories and more come back to me each late October…especially when the wind howls outside and the cold fall rain taps at our windows. I remember. The love. The joy. The night creatures and my family. Author and 2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS NOMINEE for her horror novel THE LAST VAMPIRE, Kathryn Meyer Griffith rdgriff@htc.net
Denise Z
13 years agoOne of the most precious Halloween traditions we shared when our son was young was getting together at a friends for a pot luck and pumpkin carving party. The kids would dress up and the adults and kids would all stand around carving pumpkings and decorating Halloween sugar cookies. What great fun. Too much sugar, pumpkin goop everywhere, and pride in all the creativity was such a joy to behold 🙂 Thank you for sharing the fun today and for the lovely giveaway opportunity. I have tweeted about this lovely event (the browser would not let me past the URL) but what the hey, hopefully lots more folk will drop by for the Halloween fun!
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Patricia Yager Delagrange
13 years agoOur Halloween tradition is for my husband to wear a black curly wig which makes him look like a dork and I wear a pair of red devil horns and carry a red pitchfork whilst my daughter dresses in her favorite Halloween costume and we tour our neigborhood. The cool thing is that since we've been doing this since she was a toddler, people giving out candy just freak out remembering how tiny she used to be. I know it's not an elaborate tradition nor fancy at all, but it's simple and fun and I'll always remember it.
Patti
Kimberly
13 years agoIn thinking about Halloween memories, I have to share my experience with Halloween growning up. I lived in a rural area that had lots of space between houses. Because of this, my neighborhood always decided to hold trick or treat on the closest Saturday afternoon to Halloween rather than on beggar's night. My friends always used to make fun of us for going trick or treating on a Saturday afternoon, but because there were only 20 or so of us in the neighborhood and we walked so far, our neighbors typically banded together and bought full size candy bars and massive amounts of candy. We may have gone on Saturday afternoon, but our haul was always three times bigger than the kids who went on beggar's night.
Terri Matlock
13 years agowe dont really have much of a tradition but i do love the first halloween i took both of my kids trick or treating. my youngest wasnt able to walk up to the doors and say "trick or treat" but my oldest was and he always made sure he had a piece of candy for his brother too. 🙂
Terri M
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Na
13 years agoI definitely love the bantering that Cat and Bones though. It's never a boring day. She's always so fired up and he calms her down. He has a quiet danger about him that compliments her impulsive nature very well. I also like that he is not willing to let her go. He holds on and Cat needs that very much. She's used to being on her own and not depending on anyone. Bones sees through her tough exterior to a vulnerable girl. Perfect together! The more they yap the more endearing they are.
Jennifer Hernandez
13 years agoMy Halloween tradition is to start decorating way too early. Hey people do it for Christmas! I am a huge Halloween lover- the chill in the air, scary movie marathons and of course the free candy. Unfortunately my kids aren't big fans like me, so when I tell them when I'll be getting the decorations out they act embarrassed and tell me its too soon. I usually wait a couple of days and put them up while they are at school.
Carmen
13 years agoI live in Switzerland, so Halloween is not really celebrated that much. But over the last couple years there have been more and more little kids trick or treating, which is totally cute 🙂 So I usually just curl up on the couch with a friend, watch Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, and hand out candy to the kids who ring the bell.
Michelle W
13 years agoHalloween is when we decide who we would most like to be……and then we get to eat all the things we never "should". Kind of like a fairy tale day in our house. We dress up and eat a lot. (probably not the best tradition…but it works for us!!!)
Kai W.
13 years agoMy family has never celebrate Halloween. No candies or custumes. So I'm pretty much have been on the conservative side. My friend invited me to a Halloween party a couple of years back. I decided I wanted to shock my co-workers and peers. I dressed up as Tarzan's Jane and Boy was everybody surprised that I have a wild streak in me.
Barbara Elness
13 years agoMy favorite Halloween memory is spending the evening at my sister's, taking her grandkids out trick or treating, then visiting a homemade haunted house down the street and coming back for some pumpkin pie for my birthday (Nov. 1).
Sherilyn Dunn
13 years agoMy son developed an interest in karate at a young age, although I couldn't afford to pay for lessons for a number of years. When he was six and my daughter was nine months, I got him a karate costume that would fit over a winter coat as we lived in Denver, Colorado. It is common knowledge that, regardless of the forecast, it will snow in Denver on Halloween. Despite this knowledge, the night seemed fair and I only made him wear his long johns under his costume. We had trick-or-treated a couple of long blocks away from the house when, sure enough, the wind suddenly switched from west to north, the temperature plummeted 20 degrees, and it started to snow. I was gamely carrying my daughter who was bundled and sleeping in a Snuggly on my chest, so I covered her head with a blanket and told my son I'd last until he was ready to quit. After a couple more houses, he was ready to pack it in, so I give him my jacket and we trudged home, where my partner at the time had a fire going in the fireplace. After putting the baby to bed, I joined the boys in the living room, where we sat and warmed up with hot chocolate in front of the fire while sorting and inspecting my boy's goodies. He wore that costume for pajamas until it was well past fitting and then demanded that I save it for his baby sister, who did the same. I finally, with my children's permission, gave it away to a small boy who fell in love with it, ragged and worn though it was. Hands down, it was the best Halloween costume ever and is still fondly remembered by the whole family!
penny
13 years agonow that our boys are "too old" to dress up for halloween, we dress up our 2 chihuahua puppies 🙂 and watch halloween movies.. lots of fun
GladysMP
13 years agoWe had the most successful Halloween Party ever when we put it on for the youngsters in our church. It took a bit of preparation, but it turned out spectacular. Our church has some classrooms in the basement, so turning out all of the lights down there make the main room and side classrooms totally dark except for the lights we provided. We had partitioned off a portion of the large room with sheets. We spread dry leaves and pine needles along the trail [and throughout the cemetery) to make rustling sounds where the youngsters would be taken. One parent kept the youngsters upstairs and they came downstairs only two at a time. My husband was dressed in a black raincoat and black hat and he met the pairs as they came to the basement and took the youngsters through the basement with a flashlight. First they had to touch items in bowls as he described the contents…cooked spagetti was brains, peeled grapes were eyeballs, a piece of liver for a heart. Of course this started the squirms and giggles. Then he took them into the cemetery we had prepared wih cardboard tombstones on which I had written poems about the various children, like:
RONNIE
MAY THE HEAVENLY CHORUS LET HIM IN
IFTHE WAY HE SINGS AIN'T TOO GREAT A SIN!
THE MARTIN TWINS
THAT FIGHT THEY HAD WAS TRULY GRUESOME;,
SO THIS GRAVE HERE CONTAINS A TWOSOME.
We had made a light to shed a bit of light on the cemetary by painting eyeballs on two egg shells and putting them over two small white Christmas lights and hanging this on a wall. In the dark, this looked like an owl's eyes. Of course, hubby shined his flashlight around on the tombstones so they could read the tombstones and he made a point to walk each couple up close to one of the hanging sheets at the side of the cemetery. I was behind the sheet with a bowl of ice water. I would reach into that bowl with a rubber glove and then grab the leg of the youngster closest to the sheet. That person would scream like crazy and the partner, not realizing why that one screamed, would scream, too.
After viewing the cemetery, the youngsters were then taken into one of the side rooms. My husband had obtained a cardboard mattress box and made a casket out it with a hole where the opening would be in a casket. The casket was then covered in a blanket. We had a twenty-year- old lady that the children did not know in the casket. We had used arrangements of artificial flowers that the church used and kept stored to put around the room for the effect of a funeral, with one bouquet on the blanket . When the youngsters entered the room and got a good view of the casket, the lady in it would rise up. You have never heard such screams in your life. Those youngsters were already scared silly by the ice water trick.
Then a man kept the pairs of youngsters in another downstairs room so they could not tell those still upstairs what they had experienced. Believe me, those upstairs had heard all the screams coming from downstairs and they were scared when they first showed up. for their turn.
The funniest thing of all was that the mother who had kept the kids upstairs did not know what we had going on downstairs. She had only heard the youngsters' screams, so she insisted that we take her through the same experience. She screamed when the ice water hit her leg and almost as much over the casket event. Everyone had a blast. The youngsters all wanted the tombstones with their verse on it to take home.
Gladys Paradowski
2530 Droxford Lane
Houston, TX 77008-3017
gladysmp@att.net
2530 Droxford Lane
May the heavenly chorus let him
Liesa Manis
13 years agoMy Mom had a tradition that we always had hot dogs on Halloween. They were fast and easy, because we were driving her nuts to go Trick or Treating!!
Alissa
13 years agoAs a kid my favorite Halloween tradition was the post-trick-or-treating candy sort. I think I enjoyed that even more than I enjoyed eating the candy!
GladysMP
13 years agoI forgot to add something to the casket scene at our party. The lady's daughter was sitting in a rocking chair beside the casket and was rocking away and wailing loudly into her hands over the departed. Of course this drew the youngsters attention first.
Mary Preston
13 years agoI have no Halloween memories, as we don't celbrate it at all. Now days I get my fix via the internet.
Joanne
13 years agoI started a tradition of making a spooky dinner for the kids when they were little. So things like eye balls and guts (meatballs with circles of cheese and sliced olives, with noodles) or a giant spider (meatloaf done up in a round pan, inverted on a plate, covered with ketchup and eyes made with cheese circles and olives. Legs were made from bake in the oven breadsticks, shaped to look like legs by draping them over a log/roll of aluminum foil) etc, etc. Last year I tried to get out of it, the kids are now 18 and 14…nope, no can do! They were so upset I landed up making a special dinner anyway. 🙂 I suspect this will be something I"ll be doing one day for my grandbabies, if I'm blessed with them. And I just know I"ll enjoy doing it. <3
Naomi Bellina
13 years agoI've started a recent tradition of watching the DVD Thriller, by Michael Jackson, while I get my costume and make up on to go to our local street party. Nobody does zombie like the King of Pop!
Joani S
13 years agoThe last time I went trick or treating was so many years ago I don't want to even mention, but it was the best time ever. I lived on a little side street, not many kids, just 3 of us around the same age, so we went out together to the neighboring development, (where all the good candy came from), and I dressed as a japanese geisha girl. My dad had been in the navy, and it was an honest to god original kimono, and my mom did my face all white and I had a black wig, I looked the part!! (except for the big feet), I only have one pic of it, but it was the best night running around with friends and I felt so special!! Thanks for allowing me to talk about it!!
Julie
13 years agoIt's a little rare for me to dress up, but we definitely did so during our college years, as we dormed near an affluent neighborhood. Otherwise, carving pumpkins and stuffing our faces silly with sugary confections is usually pretty satisfying.
Tammy
13 years agoWe go to the corn maze and go on a hay ride during the month of October. We pickout our pumpkins to carve and hang orange lights in the windows.
Maura
13 years agoHi, my first memory of Halloween was 1966. I was in kindergarten and could not wait to get home and put on my tiger costume to go trick or treating around the neighborhood. I got some pretty strange reactions from the neighbors but being five, I didn't think too much of it until a couple of them asked if I had been there before. I found out when I got home that my brother who was four went out while I was in school in my costume and was making a second round in his own. Thanks Mom.
books4me
13 years agoMy favorite Halloween memory was when I was in high school. A friend and I wanted to do a costume together for a party so we dressed up as simese twins…we went to the local Goodwill and purchased the largest men's pants and button up shirt. We faced with backs to each other and go into the pants and shirt. Walking was a challenge but we had a blast and won best dressed costume!!
Heidi Durham
13 years agowhen I was little my big sister dressed up as Batman, and I dressed up as Robin, I felt pretty cool until I fell down and skinned my knee and my mother made me take off my mask so I could see better. Then I felt like a dork. Funny what we remember. :^)
Anne R
13 years agoWe have a Halloween tradition of getting together with my sister in law and her kids to go to the annual Zoo Boo. It is a great time to get together with family.
Also, I have decided that since my little guy dresses up for Halloween so will I. I love joining in that fun.
Whitney
13 years agoA long time ago when I was little my mother would sew our Halloween costumes. My year-older sister were always dressed alike. When we went trick-or-treating we were never allowed to say "Trick or Treat". We were always told to say "Guess who we are!" Nobody ever got it wrong. I wonder why…
Cathy Galloway
13 years agoAt work, we have a tradition started a couple of years ago. Someone starts a secret gift chain by filling 2 basket with candy, Halloween decor, etc and leaving them for someone with instructions to continue the chain by prepping 2 more baskets. As each person receives a basket, they post a sign that they've been "booed" so they don't get another gift basket. Eventually everyone receives a gift.
Wendy Gregory
13 years agoWe don't get trick or treaters at my house because we live out in the country, but I still by plenty of candy (for me) and we always took our kids to different neighborhoods to trick or treat. Me and the kids would walk around while my husband followed us in the car.
I love Cat and Bones' relationship. They definitely compliment each other.
lisagk
13 years agoSince we don't really have any halloween traditions, I'll go with Cat and Bones, it makes my day that they have such a connection. It seems almost tangible.
Wendy
13 years agoWhat is it about Cat and Bones?! She happens to be one kick ass woman/vampire/ghost whisperer who always tends to get into trouble (more so in the beginning of the series). He is what every woman who has commented on this blog wants to get her hands/mouth/body on (I'm with them on that). That's what it is about the books. They have an explosive relationship, full of excitement and drama and of course, some amazing sex scenes that leaves out very VERY little. Yum!
Lexi
13 years agoAhhh my fave Halloween memory is the Halloween I spent running through the neighborhood ,sticking to the shadows, trying to hide from a friend of ours in the scream mask. We were in a big group but there was a guy I was crushing on there too, we got to talk, run for our lives, pretend to be scared so he could hold my hand…and now I am married to him with three beautiful kids! I love Halloween!
And I can never get enough Cat and Bones. His accent, good looks, and the way he looks at Cat like without her he would cease to be….so romantic. Oh and she can kick some tail very easily. =)
Kimberley Coover
13 years agoMy favorite Halloween memory is the year I was 13. My dad was a marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, my oldest brother in the navy and in a school.. . his wife and baby daughter were living with us while he was at schoool. We were awaiting housing on base, so my parents rented a house in San Clemente, CA. This was a wonderful house. On a hill 2 blocks from the beach….(we lucked out as the owners needed someone for the winter months and gave my parents a break on the rental rate). We had gone to San Diego for the afternoon and of course we were late getting back so that I could go trick or treating with my friends. I t was almost 10 when we got home – I was in a snit (as only 13 year old girls can get into). My brother and his wife offered to take me trick or treating around the neighborhood – I dressed as a navy seamen ( clothes borrowed from my brother) stuffed the arms with newspaper muscles …out we went. I never got so much candy in my life – Every house we went to ( only I went to the door) gave me candy for all three of us – The last house we went to gave me the last of their candy and told my to share with the other sailor and the seal! ( my sister-in-law was wearing an oversize windbreaker and she was flapping her arms to keep warm….The love and consideration they showed me that night, the commaroderie that we shared, laughing and talking – has stayed with me for 40 years.
JessS
13 years agoHalloween isn't really big where I live, but I remember one year when I was little, I dressed up as a witch and went trick or treating with my siblings all through the house.
Cat and Bones are just awesome :), though I'm a newcomer too and haven't read all of the books yet.
Thanks for the giveaway, ummmm but is it international?
Laurie
13 years agoBack when you trusted what your neighbors gave you, the route was always the same. The neighbor who gave you pennies, the neighbor who made popcorn balls, the neighbor who made chocolate chip cookies, the neighbor who had the pomagrante tree…this was while we walked to the school for the Halloween Carnaval, where my sister always won a cake in the cakewalk. Miss those days!
Theresa N
13 years agoMy favorite memory was filling up the grocery bags full of candy and going back for more.
Di
13 years agoMy Dad was posted to th US for 4 years when I was a kid, so Halloween was all new and exciting to me. Imagine people just giving you lollies for knocking at their door- who knew!. So being new to this my Mum cut out an old sheet and dressed me up as a ghost. It was just floaty with a string (or something around my neck and eyes cut out. I was 8 y.o. at the time and when I finally got a look at myself in my costume, I burst out crying because I scared myself.
Julie
13 years agoSeveral family members show up at our house for Halloween. First, we have so many kids in our neighborhood, and they are absolutely precious! Second, we usually roast marshamallows on the fire pit outside and tell scary stories, then go inside and watch Van Helsing. I'm not sure why, but that's been our movie that we really like to watch on Halloween. Not that I mind….I can look at Hugh Jackman anytime. 😉
William Cheney
13 years agoMy favorite memories of Halloween were the parties that we had when I was growing up. Everybody dressed up and went trick or treating at dark for an hour or 2, then we all went back to the house and just enjoyed ourselves. All of us kids would play games and have a lot of fun.
stacie
13 years agoWhen we were kids we went to church and had a blast with the cake walk and tic tac toe, and fishing games. We had facepainting and it was on halloween, at night. I just loved it. We also had a costume contest.
Joni G.
13 years agoBest part of trick or treating as a kid was ‘sorting’ the loot afterward! Thanks for the giveaway.
Rachel
13 years agoWhen I was little, we lived in a townhouse/apartment complex. Almost all of the houses would do something grand and my dad would take us around. There was one guy though, he was a lot older, but he always had the best house. He would make it real spooky on the outside, play creepy music, spiderwebs, the whole shebang. When you'd ring the doorbell he'd open the door and always have the silliest costume! Giant shoes, shirt, pants, you name it. It was so great to have it be spooky/scary on the outside and then inane silliness when he opened the door! I miss having that kind of trusting environment for kids to trick or treat in. Now that I'm older, I want to trick or treat and find Bones behind one of those doors. Spade would be nice too…Ian…Vlad..oh I'll take them all. Who needs candy? 🙂
Jennifer
13 years agoI have tons of halloween memories from when I was little. It used to be my favorite time of the year because you got to dress up, get candy, and hang out with your friends. What else would be better to a kid? I almost always dressed up as a witch and we always went out with our pillow cases. Most times we would get it at least three quarters of the way full! Now that I'm older I usually spend halloween taking my little brother out trick or treating. He's 7 but still wont go knock on the doors by himself so I usually go up with him and since I'm in costume often times I get candy as well, BONUS! 🙂
Alicia0605
13 years agoI always loved having parties at halloween. we own a party center and we would always go all out for decorations.
librarypat
13 years agoWe always dressed up to take our children Trick or Treating and give out treats. Decorating the house inside and out was always such fun when the children were younger. We live in the country now and have had trick or treaters only 3 or 4 times in the past 18 years. Only once was it not our grandson. The years I was a children's librarian were lots of fun. I had a ball decorating the library and putting on a Halloween program.
savannah
13 years agoI remember going "Trick & Treat" with the kids next all 10, and taking a
pillow case to hold all the candy..
We had enough cany for 2 months, 'til Christmas
Anonymous
13 years agoI remember I was a clown for 5 yrs straight b/c my mom had the makeup LOL…so either she wore clown makeup or saved the stuff from last year! LOL…j/k she was just to cheap to buy new, at least I didn't get a pillow case like my brothers.
Chelsea Rafferty
13 years agoHmm, I think one of my favorite Halloween memories is when I lived in Nevada and my gay friend Stefan and I went to one of those really big haunted houses in Reno (near the casinos) there was a guy with a chain saw and for once I wasn't scared in a haunted house but Stefan was shrieking like a little girl behind me and I actually found it to be pretty amusing. I'm obsessed with Cat and Bones, I want more and more and more in that series 🙂 I hope it never ever ends 😀 What a cute little poem to go with it.. I'd definitely like to see more of Bones Bod but honestly, Cat kind of scares me so I'll just drool from affair if that's okay 🙂 hehe!
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Thanks for such a cute giveaway!
Tonya
13 years agoWell in Australia we don't actually do Halloween, but one October my friend Katrina had a Halloween party since her birthday is in October anyway. Part of the decorations included small pumpkin shaped candles that were placed evenly along her wooden fence. This was not a very smart idea as we soon discovered when we came outside and found that the fence was on fire. Maybe there's a reason we don't do Halloween here!
CarolynO
13 years agoI remember as a kid going around our neighborhood early because I was young, but also so I could go over to my cousin's house-it happend to be his birthday also. They would have cake and ice cream before I got there, which always made me feel left out, and then we would go around his neighborhood with his older sister, older brother and younger brother. I can remember freezing my tail off because it was so cold and almost always it would rain too, making it miserable here is Michigan.
Patricia
11 years agoThis has always been my favorite holiday and I always wanted to dress like a witch…today I don’t need to dress the part since I truly am a practicing witch (for no better name for a lay person). This is a truly special holiday in which I take the time out to appreciate and remember all those that have loved and have passed. I still get to play dress up as part of my ritual and I share it with my best friend/sister.
Marlene Howard
11 years agoMy favorite memories of Halloween were when my daughter was little, we dress her up go around to all the stores in town. The afterwards we went to the grandparents and a few Uncles houses and they would have her little treats and take pictures all of them have passed away now so it’s wonderful to have those memories. I love Kat and Bones they are my favorite couple and an auto buy for me. I just love the way they are together as a couple they have a little of everything. Funny sweet possessive hot all in one series. I hate to see the series end I am going to miss not having their books to look forward to.
janice
11 years agoI remember a halloween when we went over my grandparents and my mother dressed up and put a stocking over her head. Grandparents didn’t recognize any of us and after my grandmother gave us candy, my mother put her foot in the door and said “I want more, more!!” My grandmother got all flustered, tried to shut the door, etc. Then she realized it was her crazy daughter!