Spooktacular Giveaway

17 October 2008 Jackie Contests, Uncategorized 5

It’s the season to be scared and what better way to celebrate than with a spooky contest.  Everyone loves to be scared at Halloween and the Hachette Book Group is offering up 10 of their spookiest titles to FIVE lucky winners.

  1. The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent
  2. Isolation by Travis Thrasher
  3. The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time by Leslie Pockell
  4. The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Dorothy Hoobler
  5. The Myrtles Plantation: The True Story of America’s Most Haunted House by Frances Kermeen
  6. Ghostly Encounters: True Stories of America’s Haunted Inns and Hotels by Frances Kermeen
  7. The Terror by Dan Simmons
  8. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  9. When Ghosts Speak: Understanding the World of Earthbound Spirits by Mary Ann Winkowski
  10. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostove

However, I never make it that easy for you, now do I, but this time around I’ll make it easy for you.  In order to enter this contest, all you have to do is share your favorite Halloween moment. Was it your son’s first Halloween?  Did you have an awesome costume one year?  Did you pull the ultimate prank?  Share with us your memories and who know, you may find a new idea from someone else or will give someone a new idea.

Now here’s the disappointing part….the rules.  You have to share a Halloween moment.  I don’t want to see “please enter me comments” – that’s just not any fun.  Also, I have to restrict the contest to US or Canada residents only, sorry to all my international readers.  Even though Halloween is on the 31st, you can’t forget the Day of the Dead.  So, the contest will run until midnight on November 1st and I’ll use the Research Randomizer to chose 5 winners.

As always, if you want more chances to win, you can post about today’s contest on your blog, social network, or anywhere you can. Digg it, stumble it, share it with the world. Wherever you share it, make sure you add a link to it along with your answer.

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I am a 30-something SAHM with two adorable boys and a supportive husband who is very tolerant of my reading addiction. I love to read and easily go through about a dozen books a month – well I did before I had kids. Now, not so much. After my first son was born, I began to take my hobby of reviewing a little more serious and started Literary Escapism to help with my sanity. I love to discuss the fabulous novels I’ve read and meeting all the wonderful people in the book blogging community has been amazing.

15 Comments

  1. Lol, it is exactly what you said. My most memorable Halloween was last year when we took my one year old out trick or treating. He was dressed warmly in a pumpkin costume and looked smashing :) More than the treats, it was a way of introducing him to the neighbors which was great fun!

    Thanks for this great giveaway!
    callmeabookworm AT gmail DOT com

  2. My favorite Halloween was when I was in 2nd grade, for my birthday (which is Oct. 18th…I just turned 45) my mother had a big party for me at school…the classroom was competely decorated with Halloween themed items! Because of this eventful moment in time I always look foward to all-things Halloween. Plus I love the fact that its sort of close to Halloween!

  3. Halloween isn’t really my holiday, I never got into dressing up and all that. But my late grandfather’s birthday was on Halloween, so my favorite moment would be when he was still alive and we’d celebrate with a family party.

    Thanks for the giveaway!
    Tammy
    missporkchop AT yahoo DOT com

  4. My favorite memories are the costumes we got when I was a kid (Mom made them all): one year I went as Vicki from the TV show Small Wonder, and my sister went as a green kangaroo, after Judy Blume’s book The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo. The year before, I was Rainbow Brite and she was Twink. My mother was so generous and enthusiastic about our costumes…

  5. My favorite Halloween moment was when I was in my twenties. My friend and I were all dressed to go to a Halloween party but were stopping by her brother’s to pick something up first. We get to the house, it’s all dark but we really don’t think anything of it. We start walking up the sidewalk and all of a sudden these spotlights come on and dang it if this coffin doesn’t start opening beside us with this mummy siting up. Well I can tell you that I pretty much peed my pants. I still have not forgotten that moment and it’s been 20 yrs. lol.

    I’d love to be entered in the contest. Thanks.

  6. When I was little my mom was a stay-at-home mom and she made our halloween costumes by hand. They were so great. My favorite memory is of the witch costume she made me. It was great, black & flowy with a broom and everything. She even made a witch’s hat with a wide brim and hung a plastic spider off of the brim with fishing line. It was the coolest costume ever and I was so proud to wear it!

  7. My favorite halloween moment was when my son was 5 years old. Money was tight so I made a costume for him myself. I used a cardboard box, knobs and a plastic steering wheel to create a car that he wore around his waist. We trick or treated in the same neighborhood year after year and his costume was the talk of the neighborhood for the next 4 years.

  8. My favorite moment was last year. I had gotten a Little Red Devil costume for my 2 year old granddaughter. She was so adorable in it. Everywhere we went, people wanted to take her picture, even the local minister of The First Baptist Church.

  9. My favorite halloween was the year when I was able to get my son to go trick or treating. He has an autistic spectrum disorder and was afraid of costumes so he only wore a black cape. However as we went from door to door he began to say trick or treat. That made my day.

  10. Probably my funniest Halloween was the year I was an angel. I made this elaborate costume with a pair of wings made out of cardboard that I donned right before I walked in to the party. Well…….I spent the entire evening standing up (since I couldn’t sit with my wings on!) & when I walked around, people were getting hit left & right with my wings!!!!!! I thought it was funny – not so sure about how others at the party felt. Moral of this story – make sure your wings are soft & collapsible.

  11. after a night of trick or treating, our youngest son would sit at the table, empty his bag and group his candy-suckers in one pile, candy bars in the next pile. etc. and then he’d take the wrappers off and lick every one so his brothers would not steal from him

  12. well, last year i dressed up as a panda. very cute :) i had on these headbands with panda ears on top and i wore only black and white. no one could tell who/what i was so it was very interesting.

  13. My favorite Halloween moment was in 1978, I believe. I was a student at Penn State University and there was a special program presented, guest speakers Ed and Lorraine Warren. I had never heard of them before and I went in expecting a lighthearted presentation. They proceeded to scare the hell out of everyone in the auditorium. Have never forgotten it since.

  14. My best Halloween moment/memory was when my son was just 2 years old and he was dressed in a homemade “Winnie the Pooh” costume a friend of mine made for him. She stuffed his tummy TOO MUCH. So much so he couldn’t walk! He waddled and would fall over. It was sad but funny at the same time. As we were treating we had to keep pulling stuffing from his belly so he could walk without falling over.

    Thanks for a great giveaway!!!!

  15. One year I dressed up as the good witch from the Wizard of Oz. I was only four but I have seen pictures in our family photo album. I don’t have too many Halloween memories, except for eating the candy. Yes, the candy was my favorite part of EVERY Halloween.

    I have been meaning to read The Historian but never got around to it. Thanks for throwing a great giveaway!

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