This fun collection takes the best ideas from "Country Living"'s most successful Halloween titles and combines them with fabulous new suggestions for celebrating the holiday. Choose from more than 40 pumpkin-carving and craft projects, party tips, menus, and more.

The story about Hollywood monsters, vampires, zombies, werewolfs, phantoms, mummies, and ghouls of literture - and how they went Hollywood. Classic monsters are primarily the creatures of lagend, touched by the supernatural or created by the madness of men who ventures where no man should go, the good olf monsters who lurked in gloomy settings of Central European villages, ancient castles and tombs, moulding mansions and stone laboratories filled mazes of bewilding equipment and sounds of hummimgs of electricty, in dark nights and violent storms. From A to Z - Hollywood Monsters inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley.

Faith Andrews Bedford, a favorite with Country Living's readers, captures the magic of summer, childhood, and home in a moving collection of essays. For years, the readers of Country Living have adored Faith Andrews Bedford's evocative stories, featured in her beloved bi-monthly column, "Kids in the Country." This enchanting collection invites everyone to join Bedford as she movingly recaptures the modest triumphs of children, the importance of family traditions, and the simple pleasures of country life. In "Sister Dresses," Faith's mother finds three special Easter outfits "all exactly the same," delighting her daughters. "Time & a Bottle" tells of Faith's girlhood walks along the beach, where she hoped that the sea glass she collected "had come from a perfume bottle thrown into the water a century ago by an elegant lady in France." Every one of these essays explores the beauty in the ordinary and the meaning in the everyday.

Samhain—also known as Halloween—is the final spoke in the Wheel of the Year. At this time, the harvest has finished and the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest. This guide shows you how to practice the serious work of divination and honoring the dead along with the more lighthearted activities of Halloween. Rituals Recipes Lore Spells Divination Crafts Correspondences Invocations Prayers Meditations Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials explore the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones of the witch's year.

“Has directions, illustrated with plenty of color photos.”—Associated Press. “Full of ideas for decorations, pumpkin-carving, costumes for the little guys, and recipes for serving at your Halloween bash.”—Scripps Howard News Service. “Full of cool, creepy ideas for decorations, costumes, parties, and more.”—Copley News Service.

A Halloween bash, a high-risk pregnancy, and a vengeful prankster - just another "Peculiar" adventure for Sunny and her friends. ***** It’s celebration time for our small town. I want to enjoy myself, but I am five months pregnant, which in therianthrope terms means this baby is spreading my ribs wide open and threatening to kick my liver right out my butt. Topping that, my psychic ability, which has been on the fritz is all revved up and in go, go, go mode. I’m getting psychic visions of classic horror monsters getting stalked by the invisible man. With each new incident, his actions are getting more deadly. I am only sure of one thing: Someone will die tonight if I don't figure out who the Wolfman is and how to stop the invisible man from killing him. Peculiar Mysteries series from USA Today bestselling author Renee George are laugh-out-loud, grip the edge of your seat, and swoon as you fall in love tales of mystery, humor, and romance that take place in the small (fictional) Ozark shifter town of Peculiar, Missouri.