Scary Historical Costumes
Haunted Air
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Anonymous Halloween photographs from c.1875–1955—truly haunting Americana, with a foreword by David Lynch The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementos of the treasured, now unrecognizable, and others. The roots of Halloween lie in the ancient pre–Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on this night the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead grew thin and ruptured, allowing spirits to pass through and walk unseen but not unheard amongst men. The advent of Christianity saw the pagan festival subsumed in All Souls' Day, when across Europe the dead were mourned and venerated. Children and the poor, often masked or in outlandish costume, wandered the night begging "soul cakes" in exchange for prayers, and fires burned to keep malevolent phantoms at bay. From Europe, the haunted tradition would quickly take root and flourish in the fertile soil of the New World. Feeding hungrily on fresh lore, consuming half–remembered tales of its own shadowy origins and rituals, Halloween was reborn in America. The pumpkin supplanted the carved turnip; costumes grew ever stranger, and celebrants both rural and urban seized gleefully on the festival's intoxicating, lawless spirit. For one wild night, the dead stared into the faces of the living, and the living, ghoulishly masked and clad in tattered backwoods baroque, stared back.
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- Best Choice - #1 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 99 Reviews
A Bad Case of Stripes (Scholastic Bookshelf)
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Let Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whole range of your child's experiences-laugh with them, learn with them, read with them! Eight classic, best-selling titles are available now!Category: Making Friends"What we have here is a bad case of stripes. One of the worst I've ever seen!"Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she's so worried that she's about to break out in...a bad case of stripes!"Shannon's story is a good poke in the eye of conformity...and his empathetic, vivid artwork keeps perfect pace with the tale."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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- Best Choice - #2 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 25 Reviews
Honest Abe Lincoln Children's Boy Halloween Dress Up Theme Party Roleplay & Cosplay Costume (Youth Medium (5-6))
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- THE PENNY PREZ: It's true President #16 couldn't tell a lie; you'll have a lot to live up to in this patriotic Honest Abe Lincoln historical children's
- LOOK THE PART: Includes a hat with built-in beard, colonial waist coat, and pants to have you looking like the famous penny and 5 dollar
- SCARY GOOD TIME: Great for kids' Halloween costumes, theme parties, dress up, and
- WICKED MATERIALS: Made from 100% polyester for a comfortable fit. Resists wrinkles and
- HANDLE WITH SCARE: Hand wash cold, hang dry. Do not iron or bleach. Follow the size chart to get your perfect
Four score and seven years ago...It's true Mr. President #16 couldn't tell a lie, you'll have a lot to live up to in this Honest Abe Lincoln costume. This Boo! Inc. costume comes with an Abe Lincoln hat, shirt, and pants to have you looking like the famous penny and 5 dollar bill president. Wear this for Halloween trick-or-treating, theme parties, and costume contests. Collect all the candy you can, but save some for your mummy. And when Halloween comes to an end, dress up and play pretend all year round. You're in for a spooktacular treat with this classic costume!Handle with Scare:This boy children's costume is made with 100% polyester, no hocus pocus materials. Caught in a dark and stormy night? Hand wash your eerie outfit and hang it out to dry. To prevent colors from bleeding, avoid bleaching or ironing this attire. Follow the size chart for a scary good fit.
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- Best Choice - #3 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 56 Reviews
Serafina Boxed Set [3-Book Hardcover Boxed Set]
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The #1 New York Times best-selling Serafina series by Robert Beatty is now available in a hardcover boxed set! Serafina and the Black Cloak "Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul."Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate.There's plenty to explore in her grand home, although she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa, the estate's maintenance man, have secretly lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember.But when children at the estate start disappearing, only Serafina knows who the culprit is:a terrifying man in a black cloak who stalks Biltmore's corridors at night. Following her own harrowing escape, Serafina risks everything by joining forces with Braeden Vanderbilt, the young nephew of Biltmore's owners. Braeden and Serafina must uncover the Man in the Black Cloak's true identity?before all of the children vanish one by one.Serafina and the Twisted Staff Serafina's defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds: she's too wild for Biltmore and too human to fully join her kin. When a mysterious series of attacks test Serafina's role as Biltmore's protector, she finds herself torn from the side of her best friend and only ally, Braeden Vanderbilt. Heartbroken, she flees.Deep in the forest, Serafina comes face-to-face with the evil infecting Biltmore-and discovers its reach is far greater than she'd ever imagined. All the humans and creatures of the Blue Ridge Mountains are in terrible danger. For Serafina to defeat this new evil, she must search deep inside herself and embrace th... [Read More]
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- Best Choice - #4 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 52 Reviews
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- Best Choice - #5 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 29 Reviews
Prince Martin Wins His Sword: A Classic Tale About a Boy Who Discovers the True Meaning of Courage, Grit, and Friendship (Full Color Art Edition) (The Prince Martin Epic)
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* Full-Color Art Paperback Edition. *Prince Martin is on a quest. A hard one.To win his sword, the young boy must prove he's Brave, Loyal, and True—the virtues of a knight. As he hikes through the forest, a crow's caw shatters the silence. What the kid spies in a clearing steals his breath away! They have......bristly hair......cruel beady eyes......sharp yellow tusks......the worst of intentions......and they stink to high heaven.The only thing standing between them and a fawn is a fearless four-legged stranger. Now Martin must decide: cut and run...or do the bravest thing he's ever done—HELP.Children will adore this inspiring adventure story because they'll discover that even a kid is capable of true courage—and sometimes the strongest friendships form where they're least expected.Get it now.BOOKS IN THE PRINCE MARTIN EPIC SERIES:Prince Martin Wins His SwordPrince Martin and the ThievesPrince Martin and the DragonsPrince Martin and the Cave BearPRAISE FOR THE PRINCE MARTIN EPIC SERIES:"Here's a gripping tale to be read over and over - a princely story teaching the values of integrity, courage, and resilience when facing a dangerous fear - a promised favorite in every child's library." - PAM KANALY, best-selling author of The Single Mom and Her Rollercoaster Emotions"Boyish, archetypal, cross-cultural, and timeless...exactly what young boys love and need." - PETER KREEFT, Ph.D., best-selling author of The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind THE LORD OF THE RINGS and C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium"Very creative and cleverly written. Nicely illustrated. The kind of fun and meaningful story kids will love to read - or have read to them." - PAUL McCUSKER, best-selling author of Adventures in Odyssey and Imagination Station“Another riveting read in the Prince Martin series! Prince Martin and the Cave Bear is filled with themes that I want my children to ponder—hope amidst fear, protecting ... [Read More]
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- Best Choice - #6 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 55 Reviews
The Children's Story: A Collection of Stories
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It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell—a talk with his young daughter just home from school—that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, "The Children's Story came into being that day. It was then that I really realized how vulnerable my child's mind was —any mind, for that matter—under controlled circumstances. Normally I write and rewrite and re-rewrite, but this story came quickly—almost by itself. Barely three words were changed. It pleases me greatly because I kept asking the questions…Questions like, What's the use of 'I pledge allegiance' without understanding? Like Why is it so easy to divert thoughts? Like What is freedom? and Why is so hard to explain?The Children's Story keeps asking me all sorts of questions I cannot answer. Perhaps you can—then your child will...."
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- Best Choice - #7 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 71 Reviews
The Secret of Everdon Manor (Everdon Series Book 1)
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How can she trust her senses when nothing is as it appears?The party invitation arrived just in time; Ivy needs a break from recent events, and the Edwardian theme resonates with her obsession about the past. Almost immediately, she is drawn into the family’s dark and violent history and realizes that all is not as it first appeared. Wary guests, family secrets, and unexplained events leave her questioning what is real and what is illusion.What promised to be a fabulous weekend getaway at the family’s ancestral Georgian manor quickly devolves into a nightmare.Someone has an ulterior motive for keeping her trapped there, and by the time she discovers why, it may be too late.*The Everdon Series is clean, based on the classic style of the Gothic genre with no graphic sexuality nor inappropriate language.
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- Best Choice - #8 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 76 Reviews
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932 (Dear America Series)
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- Best Choice - #9 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 10 Reviews
Tangled in Time: The Portal
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“Kathryn Lasky’s latest is a sleight-of-hand that will have you clapping your hands. With the brio and big-heart that characterizes all of Lasky’s work, this opening salvo of a new series can be heralded with trumpet fanfares and clouds of rose petals.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Egg & SpoonFor fans of the Royal Diaries series and Gail Carson Levine, Newbery Honor-winning author Kathryn Lasky delivers the first enchanting adventure in a compelling new middle grade series about a newly orphaned girl who finds herself time-travelling between the present day and the court of the two most memorable English princesses in history.Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog.But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn.The only place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother’s greenhouse. But one night she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She goes to investigate...and finds herself transported back five hundred years to Hatfield Palace, where she becomes servant and confidant of the banished princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Henry VIII.Rose soon discovers something else amazing—a locket with two mysterious images inside it, both clues to her own past. Could the greenhouse portal offer answers to the mysteries of her family...and their secrets?
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- Best Choice - #10 Scary Historical Costumes
- Checked on 06/03/2023
- Based on 49 Reviews
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