# The Halloween Library

> The Halloween Library gathers the pictures behind the holiday: vintage cards, Library of Congress prints and the illustrations from the Hollywood Halloween Horrors book, with the history behind each one.

The Halloween Library is the companion gallery to the Halloween Library book series by Edward Moran and James Lantos (Globe Pequot). It gathers the pictures behind the holiday: Library of Congress prints and photographs, vintage Halloween cards, and the illustrations from the book Hollywood Halloween Horrors. Every picture has its own page with its record and a short history.

What visitors can do here:
- Buy archival prints of the public domain pictures, unframed or framed, made by Snapshots of the Past.
- Ask about licensing and the books (use the link on any picture page).

## Main pages

- [Home](https://halloweenlibrary.com/index.html): the interactive gallery
- [Every collection](https://halloweenlibrary.com/boards.html): an index of all collections
- [Blog](https://halloweenlibrary.com/blog/index.html): stories behind the pictures
- [Sitemap](https://halloweenlibrary.com/sitemap.xml)

## Hollywood Halloween Horrors

- [Appendix B — Film and Television Charts](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/appendix-b-film-and-television-charts.html): 5 pictures
- [Chapter 1 — Houdini and Hollywood](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-1-houdini-and-hollywood.html): 9 pictures
- [Chapter 2 — Thirteen Films for the Halloween Season](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-2-thirteen-films-for-the-halloween-season.html): 13 pictures
- [Chapter 3 — The Modern Scream](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-3-the-modern-scream.html): 7 pictures
- [Chapter 4 — Halloween Comes to Television](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-4-halloween-comes-to-television.html): 20 pictures
- [Chapter 5 — The Streaming-Era Halloween](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-5-the-streaming-era-halloween.html): 5 pictures
- [Chapter 6 — The Horror Hosts](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-6-the-horror-hosts.html): 3 pictures
- [Chapter 7 — Salem on Screen](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-7-salem-on-screen.html): 3 pictures
- [Chapter 8 — The Ghostface Effect](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-8-the-ghostface-effect.html): 4 pictures
- [Chapter 9 — The Halloween Episode](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-9-the-halloween-episode.html): 4 pictures
- [Chapter 10 — The Sound of Halloween](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-10-the-sound-of-halloween.html): 1 picture
- [Chapter 11 — The Archetypes](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/chapter-11-the-archetypes.html): 4 pictures
- [Gallery Four — The Nineties and After](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/gallery-four-the-nineties-and-after.html): 19 pictures. The last gallery is the one where horror starts talking about itself. Scream puts a mask on a poster and expects you to recognize it as a reference rather than a threat. The Blair…
- [Gallery One — The Monsters](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/gallery-one-the-monsters.html): 28 pictures. The hundred posters in these four galleries are the visual spine of this book. They were chosen from an archive of more than a hundred and fifty thousand cataloged one-sheets…
- [Gallery Three — The Slashers](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/gallery-three-the-slashers.html): 26 pictures. Twenty-six posters covering eleven years, and they are the most commercially consequential eleven years in the history of horror. Halloween arrives in 1978 and the shape of the…
- [Gallery Two — The Drive-In Years](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/gallery-two-the-drive-in-years.html): 27 pictures. Something changes here, and the posters change with it. The monster stops being the studio's property and becomes the independent producer's stock in trade — Roger Corman making a…
- [The Infographics](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/the-infographics.html): 72 pictures

## Library of Congress

- [Ghosts, Magic & Spirit Shows](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/ghosts-magic-and-spirit-shows.html): 13 pictures. Spirit mediums, magic lanterns, Houdini's campaign against fake seances and the midnight spook shows of the theater circuit.
- [Halloween Celebrations & Posters](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/halloween-celebrations-and-posters.html): 12 pictures. How Americans have celebrated October 31: parties, parades, roller-skating carnivals and WPA posters.
- [Halloween Postcards](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/halloween-postcards.html): 44 pictures. Halloween greeting cards and postcards from the golden age of the postcard, about 1900 to the 1920s, when Americans mailed millions of them every October.
- [Harvest & Pumpkins](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/harvest-and-pumpkins.html): 8 pictures. The autumn harvest behind the holiday: pumpkin fields, corn shocks and the war gardens of 1918.
- [Witches & Salem](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/witches-and-salem.html): 15 pictures. Witches in prints, posters and photographs from the Library of Congress, and the town that the witch trials made famous.

## Vintage Halloween Cards

- [Vintage Halloween Postcards](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/vintage-halloween-postcards.html): 423 pictures. Halloween greeting cards and postcards from the golden age of the postcard, about 1900 to the 1920s, when Americans mailed millions of them every October.

## Pictorial America

- [Halloween](https://halloweenlibrary.com/b/halloween.html): 66 pictures. The pictures from the Pictorial America book Halloween by James Lantos, in the order they appear in the book. Flip-through edition of the book: https://jameslantos.com/books/flip/halloween/