While Halloween has been a major holiday for many years in the United States, here in Blighty it’s been a relatively minor thing until the concept of Trick or Treat slowly made its way across the Atlantic. In the 1960s and 70s, the time for ghostly stories on television was always Christmas, in the best Dickensian tradition, and even to this day most channels do nothing more for Halloween than add a few cobwebs to the set of a gameshow shown that night and stick on an old horror movie shown hundreds of times before. But from time to time there are some special treats on October 31st, and I thought I’d go through just a few of them.
But before that, a scary picture. Only continue if you want to see it…
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