A JennyPop Halloween: TV, Film and Book Recs Featured

My boat's gone, my candy's gone, dead pirates are coming for me! I want to go home!

- Garfield's Halloween Adventure

JennyPop's Halloween Recs


Happy Autumn, fair reader! Finally! Some of us have been waiting for the season since, well, last Autumn. So, what's better than a Hallowe'en party? Not much, says Moi. Yet, 2020 seems to be satisfied only when crushing, hither-and-thither, all our annual events and holidays - like St. Patrick's Day, Comic-Con, Oktoberfest and Euro travels - with its diseased, Godzilla-sized, Doc Martens. So, in lieu of holiday parties this year, we have media. What's better than media in-general? Holiday media!

Halloween launches a glorious season of cozy, caramel-ly, candy apple-y, craft-boozy, cinnamon-y, TV goodness! Akin to my Summer, Thanksgiving and Chirtsmas rec-lists, allow JennyPop, a.k.a. Moi, to humbly proffer my fave Halloween recs.

Certainly, this is not a complete list of Halloween media options, simply my supadupa faves. (I mean, I do have other things to do during the day, rather than make lengthy, TV lists ... like, um, yoga, Irish step dancing ... planning cocktail party ensembles ... not that there's any of that going on ... taking pix of my dog for Instagram and, um, like ... IDK? One other thing?) 

The Eek!-factor, as it were, of my list is more family-friendly/spooky-old-Irish-manor, and less slash-and-gash/abandoned-asylum-murders. True, I do list The Shining and Scream Queens; but, who doesn't love a haunted mountain-lodge with an insidious, time-travel speakeasy, and tales about evil, pretty, snarky, sorority girls ... and Jamie Lee Curtis?

So, since we're all, likely, staying in this Halloween, brew some spider-cider (spiked or no), pull on your stripey socks of courage, curl up under your Vermont Country Store Great Pumpkin fleece blanket and partake in the silly, only slightly-scary, spooky side of Halloween with your Mistress of the Dork, JennyPop.  

Please note, because I think this stuff's important - in the way I also think knowing which Revlon lipstick most approximates that which Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's ("Pink in the Afternoon"/#415, btw), I have painstakingly noted season and episode numbers for TV series' Halloween episodes: i.e., (S0e0). However, if a series is listed with no (S0e0) notation, that simply means the whole series is Halloween apropos; pick any episode you like. Enjoy, kittens!         
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Halloween TV


  •  South Park
Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery (S3e10)

  • The Big Bang Theory
The Middle Earth Paradigm (S1e6)
The Holographic Excitation (S6e5)
The Imitation Perturbation (S12e6)

  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Halloween (S1e6)
Halloween II (S2e4)
Halloween, Part III (S3e5)
Halloween IV (S4e5)
HalloVeen (S5e4)
Valloweaster (S7e11)

  • Bob's Burgers
Full Bars (S3e2)
Fort Night (S4e2)
The Hauntening (S6e3)
Teen-a Witch (S7e3)
The Wolf of Wharf Street (S8e3)
Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street (S9e4)
The Pumpkinening (S12e3)

  • King of the Hill
Hilloween (S2e4)

  • 30 Rock
Stone Mountain (S4e3)

  • Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
 
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
Trick or Treat (S2e3)

  • Family Guy
Petergeist (S4e26)
Three Kings (S7e15)
And Then there Were Fewer (S9e1 & 2)
Halloween on Spooner Street (S9e4)
V is for Mystery (S16e13)

  • Modern Family
Halloween (S2e6)
Open House of Horrors (S4e5)
Halloween 3: AwesomeLand (S6e6)

  • The Goldbergs
Who Are You Going to Telephone? (S1e6)
Couples Costume (S3e6)
Stefan King (S4e5)
Jackie Likes Star Trek (S5e5)
Mister Knifey-Hands (S6e5)
A 100 Per Cent True Ghost Story (S7e6)

  • American Dad
Best Little Horror House Langley Falls (S7e3)

  • The Office
Halloween (S2e5)
Costume Contest (S7e6)
Spooked (S8e5)

  • 666 Park Avenue

A Crowd of Demons (S1e5)

  • The Simpsons
Treehouse of Horror  ... any season!

  • Spongebob Squarepants
Graveyard Shift (S2e16)

  • Scrubs
My Bad (S1e6)
My Big Brother
(S2e6)

  • Freaks and Geeks
Tricks and Treats (S1e3)

  • NCIS
Witch Hunt (S4e6) ... Abby as Marilyn!

  • 90210
Halloween (S2e13)

  • Roseanne
Boo (S2e7)
Trick or Treat (S3e7)
Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down (S4e6)
Halloween IV (S5e7)
Halloween V (S6e6)

  • Midsomer Murders
The Magician's Nephew (S11e5)

  • Poirot
Hallowe'en Party (S12e2)

  • Jamestown (S2e6)
  • Grimm
  • Ghosts (UK and US versions)
  • Ghost Adventures
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • The Secret of Crickley Hall
  • The Addams Family
  • Bewitched
  • Sabrina the Teenage Witch (w Melissa Joan Hart)
  • The Munsters
  • Scooby Doo, Where are You?
  • Be Cool, Scooby Doo!
  • Scooby Doo!: Mystery Incorporated
  • Scooby Doo and Guess Who?!
  • Hotel Paranormal
  • Sleepy Hollow (FOX series)
  • Scream Queens
  • The X-Files
  • Stranger Things
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Halloween Films


Muppets Haunted Mansion

Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo!

The Haunted Hotel

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
... duh!

Hocus Pocus

What We Do in the Shadows

The Scariest Story Ever Told: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular

Scooby Doo! And the Curse of the 13th Ghost

Bewitched

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Blair Witch Project

Paranormal Activity
: 1 and 2 

The Addams Family
(1991)

Addams Family Values
(1993)

The Addams Family
(2019)

Beetlejuice

The Skeleton Key

Tyler Perry's Boo: A Madea Halloween: 1 and 2

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest

Halloweentown

Return to Halloweentown

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

The Haunted Mansion

The Craft

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(original 1919)

Garfield's Halloween Adventure

Francis Coppola's Dracula

Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow

Wishbone: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas

Eloise's Rawther Unusual Halloween

The Shining

The Others

Frankenweenie

Scooby Doo on Zombie Island

Scooby Doo and the Goblin King

Interview with the Vampire

Pirates of the Caribbean
: I - V

Ed Wood

The Innkeepers

SyFy's The Nanny

The Lodgers

The Salem Witch Trials
(w Kirstie Alley)

Paranorman
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Boo-ooook! Halloween Reading


Murders on the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allen Poe

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

The Halloween Kid
by Rhode Montijo

Cinderella Skeleton
by Robert D. San Souci

Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving

Wicked Business
by Janet Evanovich

Ghostgirl
series by Tonya Hurley

Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice

Pirate Latitudes
by Michael Crichton

Wraith
by Phaedra Weldon

Halloween
by Jerry Seinfeld

Fangland
by John Marks

Savannah of Williamsburg: The Trials of Blackbeard and His Pirates
by Jennifer Susannah Devore

Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A. W. Jantha

Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

Frankenweenie by Tim Burton

The X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird by Jason Rekulak



*Did I omit any of your fave films, TV or books? SVP, get thee to @JennyPopCom on Insta or Twitter and tell me what holiday, media-fare you crave. LMK your Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah choices, even Summer, too. Always happy to add investiagte new shows and books and update my lists!

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Jennifer Susannah Devore (a.k.a. JennyPop) authors the 18th C. historical-fiction series Savannah of Williamsburg. She is a regular contributor - 10 years running - to the Official San Diego Comic-Con Souvenir Book; as well, she writes and researches all content for JennyPop.com. Occasionally, JennyPop writes under the pseudonym Miss Hannah Hart, ghostdame of The Hotel del Coronado.

JennyPop has been cited by TIME magazine as a Peanuts and Charlie Brown expert. Her latest novel is The Darlings of Orange County, a sexy, posh and deadly romp through Hollywood, San Diego and Orange County. Book IV in the Savannah of Williamsburg Series is completed and awaits publication. She is currently researching Book V for the series. She resides at the beach with her husband, a tiny dog, a vast wardrobe and a closet that simply shan't do.