A Halloween collectibles library:THR’s Bookstore on Etsy THR’s library includes two art-book surveys Halloween Artifacts, V!: Lighting and Halloween Artifacts, V2 Festoons with four research digests The Halloween Retrospect V1, V2, V3, V4. Well, here we are in midst of winter overtaking autumn for holiday season 2025…!!! And seems an appropriate time to say thank-you […]
Toy Tales Halloween 2025 Archivist – The Halloween Retrospect by Joanna Hauser – Oct 31, 2025 The Friday Five. What a most wonderful surprise! This Halloween 2025 is a special treat for The Halloween Retrospect! The archive has once again been interviewed by the fun-loving folks at Toy Tales (independent toy journalism website with a […]
NEW Sixth reference for Halloween! Announcing Halloween Artifacts, Volume 2: Festoons which is book six (!!!) in a two-year+ publication venture from the archive library of The Halloween Retrospect! This will continue the Halloween Artifacts series with large-scale full-color photographs spanning 114 pages. This bigger 8-1/2 x 11 format offers multiple views of familiar and […]
Above image is a repeat of this blog entry’s banner with Halloween collectibles research tools used by THR, V4 including: copyright, patent, & archive library materials. A World of Halloween Sources One reason THR guides published here since 2023 as The Halloween Retrospect differ, than many past guidebooks on the subject of vintage Halloween collectibles, […]
Other Holidays Unlocking Halloween Product data As collector these past twenty-something years, it becomes apparent very early that numerous holidays (Christmas, Easter, et. al.) provide data relative to vintage Halloween collectibles, (and this writer thinks of their own multi-seasonal forays for Bindlegrim as creative maker). Thus, even though The Halloween Retrospect publication list (see Books) […]
Great Tastes in Books With recent inclusion of Halloween Artifacts, Volume 1: Lighting among books about vintage Halloween in the Practical Peculiarities household library (and see Nikk’s latest cookbook Peculiar Baking), it seems a perfect time to review some of the items shown in Nikk’s 2023 AND 2024 specials… and offer a few links to […]
Art books & Research Digests (THR) Image Updated March 2025 to include The Halloween Retrospect, Volume 4: A selection of book publications from The Halloween Retrospect archive library – featuring vintage Halloween collectibles guides in small digest volumes and the newest art-book survey Halloween Artifacts. Since the first THR archive library publication of September 2023, […]
NEW! Full-Color Halloween Guide Halloween Artifacts, Volume 1: Lighting is the newest guide for vintage Halloween collectibles. The book is expected to have a sales release date of September 21, 2024 from the THR bookstore on Etsy. And while the new survey book series will shift into picture-book style with big photographs (on 8-1/2 x […]
