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'Extreme Halloween' -- the only book you need to make it scary
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Not since a friend's sister brought home a hearse for her kids to use in their Halloween decorating have I seen such extreme ideas for goulishness.
You really don't need any other book but this one.
For the price of the book, (list $14.95) Tom Nardone gives you a blueprint for the "baby-eating yard monster" you see at right, a creepy millipede or killer scorpion made of pumpkins, or his ultimate -- the yard serpent. Okay, you gotta buy a lot of pumpkins, but the scariest house on the block doesn't come cheap, unless dad is willing to lie lying buried and motionless under the leaves until some hapless child starts up the walk.
Nardone gives you explicit directions for his zip-line ghost ("ropes and pulleys -- what separates the Halloween pros from the amateuers") , building a cooffin full of scares and making your own fake blood.
Flaming pumpkin tiki torches anyone?
And that's just the decorating. Nardone has easy costume tips, party ideas (bloody cocktails, hemorrhaging cakes, and the open-mouthed pumpkin vomiting guacamole! Roasted squash skulls!
Living head on a platter? Bloody brain drinks..... pranks (yeah, they're still part of Halloween in some jurisdictions) and the "8 steps to the prefect scare" (no, won't give it away)
There's more. Silly epitaphs, the disembodied floating head and candy alarms to ALARM the kids....
Get this book.
You'll never afford the "roasted human" barbecue set-up, but the book is cheap for the laughs and chills you do get.
Teachers: Here's an in-class recipe for a fun Halloween read aloud.
