Happy December! The theme is month is Wicked Wonderland. December is very much an opportunity to experience a second Halloween. There’s ghost stories, wicked elves, mysterious and mystical creatures, jolly ole Santa and the sinister Krampus. Lots of spooky fun coming this month, so check back often! Wishing you all very haunted holidays!
empty magic bag
wicked elves lie and deceive
Where is Santa?
Happy November! This month moves fast. I typically take a breather after posting 30 days in a row, but I have a lot on my mind after that disastrous election. America voted for a fascist felon and we will reap what we sow soon enough. I remain defiant of the fake god those bow to and pledge to use the last of my energy to fight evil. I dedicate this month to the vampires and November’s Undead Embrace.
bloody necrosis
unholy anger returns
bitten and turned
Made with Canva Dream Lab.
Hello everyone! Apologies for the delay, this year’s Halloween Haiku Challenge was tough to judge. Such a talented group of authors submitted spooky and original haiku this season. Some were funny, some were scary, it was a really hard call. Congratulations to all the winners!
1st Place:
2nd Place:
3rd Place:
I will directly contact winners to get mailing details to get prizes out. Please do not post personal information here or on social media.
I thank all participants for their contributions on making this a successful haiku challenge. I have some halloween stickers for all the contestants.
Thank you for participating in the Halloween Haiku Challenge 2024.
Happy November!
I’m a mixed bag of emotions today. Happy that my favorite day of the year has arrived, this is what we’ve been counting down to, of course, but the last day in October is also a bittersweet day. I feel like I didnt celebrate in the way that I wanted. It’s always a bummer to celebrate Halloween season with a US presidential election looming, but this year was particularly sickening. Mostly, work is just kinda killing me. I didn’t even carve my own pumpkin yet! <gasp>
It’s time to say goodbye to our favorite month, our favorite holiday, our favorite time of the year. While the Fall season is in full swing and finally there’s some cooler temps out in SoCal so it actually feels like Autumn, that too is winding down. Christmas crept into retail stores while we were picking out pumpkins. I’m not even ready for that, so I will once again stretch out Halloween through November, before introducing a brand new haunted vampire theme for the month. I’m leaving my decorations up, I’m watching more classic horror movies, I will carve that pumpkin, and I’ll help my fellow Halloween lovers suffering from withdrawals by providing Halloween content, as we barrel into the wicked wonderland.
Truthfully, this website never stops Halloween. We do celebrate all year long but it’s just extra during October. Thank you for stopping by this season. I’m stoked to read all the haiku for this year’s Halloween Haiku Challenge 2024 and pick a winner tonight. Stay tuned for more bloodcurdling fun this November and a brand new haunted holiday season in December. Happy Halloween!
Trick or Treat 2024!
Posting a special Halloween haiku every week for Monday Macabre.
Beware on Devil’s night
always check your candy
Halloween killer
Spooky Sundays are all about reading, relaxing, and recharging our brooms. Work is definitely getting in the way of celebrating my favorite holiday, but I managed to get all my posts up. Looking forward to this last week in October. Gonna carve my pumpkin, enjoy some more spooky classic movies and hopefully read some awesome entries for the Halloween Haiku Challenge. Four days left til Halloween! Here’s a visual recap of this past week.
Title: Young Frankenstein
Director: Mel Brooks
Screenwriter(s): Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks
Starring: Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1974 Run Time: 1 hr 47 minutes
Tomorrow is Frankenstein Friday. Last Friday before Halloween in October is always dedicated to Mary Shelley’s novel about a mad scientist and his undead monsterous creation. So, in tribute and in keeping with our theme of Halloween Classic, today’s Thursday Time Travel is Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein.
Newly engaged Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the mad scientist Dr. Victor Frankensten, learns he’s inherited his family’s estate in Transylvania. Embarrassed by his family’s legacy, Dr. “Fronkenstein” travels to Europe, where he meets his late grandfather’s staff, hunchbaked assistant named “eye-gore”, the lovely Inga, and scary housekeeper Frau Blucher.
When Frederick finds Victor’s secret laboratory and private journals, the doctor attempts to perform his own experiments on a reanimated dead corpse.
Mel Brook’s hilarious parody of the old Universal monster films of the 30s and 40s was shot in black and white and consistently shows up on all the top comedy lists of all-time. In 2003, it was deemed culturally, historically, and aestethically significant by the United States National Preservation Board and selected for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
You can find Young Frankenstein on Amazon Prime this October.
Halloween Haiku Challenge 2024
#Halloweenhaikuchallenge
Share your most original or scariest Halloween Haiku during the last week of October for a chance to win a Halloween classic grand prize!
Only 3 haiku are permitted per contestant. Pick your best 3 and post. If I see more than 3 from the same participant, they won’t count. Three is the magic number.
SUBMISSIONS
You must be a WordPress or Instagram follower to particpate. Two ways to enter a submission this year 1) post your haiku in comments section below, or 2) Tag me on Instagram and use the following #halloweenhaikuchallenge
PRIZES
Grand Prize – 1st Place Winner will receive Halloween Classic prize pack, which includes a vintage style Halloween patch (not pictured), some vintage style Halloween stickers, a Drew Rausch ‘I Support Halloween’ pin, and a Disney’s Huey, Dewey, and Louie Halloween Trick or Treat Ornament. This prize pack is worth over $50.
Second & Third Place Prize: Winners choose a Halloween pin and some buttons or stickers from this year’s prize pool.
DEADLINE
The contest starts at 3pm PT on October 24th and ends at midnight, the witching hour, on October 31st, 2024. Winners will be announced on November 1, 2024, here and on social media.
Please see Contest Rules and Eligibility Page more details.
Posting a special Halloween haiku every week for Monday Macabre.
see children run
chase them down and steal their treats
goblins having fun
Halloween Horror Haiku 
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