Michie’s Homepage traces Halloween’s origins (Samhain, Celtic end-of-year); pretty cool — good history lesson in the origins of this holiday.
Terror by Design sells body-part mock-ups; chest w/entrails, gouged eyes, etc. Amateur to professional-level props and haunted house supplies.
Batesville is a funeral products and services website. Pick your favorite coffin for you or your loved ones. Creepy…
The Salem Witch Museum features the history of Salem, the city, as well as the witch trials and the museum itself. Not a huge amount of info, but some interesting tidbits.
PBarret’s Web Page, “where every day is Halloween.” Small, but has cool, scary illustrations and more. She illustrated a humorous-looking book, Tarot for Cats.
The Halloween Homepage is dedicated to the Halloween film series — good graphics and movie info, but anecdotes look like they were written by an over-zealous 14-year-old boy (“The Halloween series features the best films ever made…” Yeah, right). Good for a laugh anyway…
The Nightmare Factory explores this local haunted house. Good graphics, lots of info and links to Austin-related events, Austin Chronicle, things-to-do, etc. They even have a virtual costume and prop shop.
Bienvenue a la Place de Vampyres features lots of New Orleans stuff, complete with a nightclub for vampires, poems, product links, and more.
Sabretooth, Inc. is a sparse, but nice, dark site with products every vampyre would love — fangs, clothes, and the latest vampyre events.
Gint’s House of Horror is an interactive Halloween fantasy game. You must solve the mystery of the “stench” coming from the historical Gint House.
Alt.vampyres Homepage: Meet the vampire crew and their friends. Complete with stories, poems, pictures, and interesting (and not-so-interesting) anecdotes.
Gothic Beach Studio For creatures of the night: be up on the latest events and hotlinks for the vampire crowd.
The Night Gallery features free Halloween graphics, sound effect, and more, as well as links to other cool sites.
Ann Schutz’s Homepage features fun activities, jokes, etc. relating to All Hallows Eve. She even has a virtual Ouija Board.
alt.vampyres Once bitten: be up on the latest activities of the children of the night and those who love them.
— Julie Weaver
This article appears in October 25 • 1996 and October 25 • 1996 (Cover).