STREAMING FROM THE CASTLE EAST: This fan-made 1973 video for "The Monster Mash" is today's must-see clip (natch), though you can also see Bobby "Boris" Pickett perform it live at Little Steven's Halloween a Go-Go 2005. The covers by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Misfits are pretty good also -- the latter uses clips from the Rankin-Bass animated classic, Mad Monster Party.

BOB DYLAN inspires Halloween costumes.

THE FLAMING LIPS led the March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons, as part of Oklahoma City's inaugural Ghouls Gone Wild Halloween Parade.  Videos at the link.

THE SCARIEST MUSIC STARS, according to Gigwise.

KISS got their first television exposure in 1976 on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.

"DO THEY KNOW IT'S HALLOWEEN?" is last year's all-star charity send-up of Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" featuring Roky Erikson, Elvira, plus members from Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Smoosh, Rilo Kiley, Sparks and many more.

OZZY OSBOURNE shares his first memories of Halloween -- and plenty of expletives -- with PopMatters.

JIM CARROLL sings about "People Who Died."

FOURTEEN SONGS ABOUT VAMPIRES, courtesy of The A.V. Club, with plenty of embedded video.

HALLOWEEN BIN:  Today's tricks and treats from the ol' HM are:  John Carpenter - Halloween Theme; Twink - Rosemary's Baby Theme; Lewis Lee - Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes; Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween; Siouxsie & The Banshees - Halloween; Dead Kennedys - Halloween; Comateens - The Munsters Theme; The Who - Boris the Spider; Gnarls Barkley - The Boogie Monster; Otis Redding - Trick or Treat; Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You; Billy Bragg & Wilco - Hoodoo Voodoo; Roky Erickson And The Aliens - I Walked With A Zombie; The Flaming Lips - Halloween On The Barbary Coast; Grant Lee Buffalo - Halloween; The Postmarks - Every Day Is Halloween;  Spoon - The Ghost Of You Lingers; Ryan Adams - Halloween Head; New York Dolls - Frankenstein; Smashing Pumpkins - Godzilla (Blue Oyster Cult); and Jane's Addiction - Sympathy For The Devil (Live).

THE TIME WARP:  Let's do it again.

BRITNEY SPEARS puts a little Rocky Horror into every day.  Spears has not regained custody of her kids, based largely on a bad report from the parenting coach.  And that's probably before anyone reads about the supposedly rehabbed pop tart staggering into Hollywood hotspot Winston's Monday night, slurping on Grey Goose vodka and mixers throughout the night.  Or seen the video of her stumbling out.  At the same time she's trying to get the judge to drop the random drug tests.  Genius.  Meanwhile, kinky photos of a half-naked Spears perched on a priest's lap and leaning seductively against a church confessional sparked outrage among Catholic leaders (though I would think Spears preferable to an altar boy).  A Kentucky church is out to save her soul.  And Mama Lynne Spears is writing a book about parenting.

ROBERT GOULET died Tuesday in L.A. at 73, awaiting a lung transplant.

THE 50 BEST-REVIEWED HORROR MOVIES, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

THE TOP 25 HORROR MOVIES, according to Time magazine, includes Bambi.

THE TOP 10 ZOMBIE MOVIES of ALL TIME, according to Stylus magazine, which dies today.

NIGHT of the KILLER LAMP:  23 Ridiculous Horror-Movie Adversaries, courtesy of The A.V. Club.

FROM GHOSTS to ZOMBIES:  A survey of horror sub-genres from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

THRILL THE WORLD:  Last weekend, in 17 countries across five continents, hundreds of people went for for the world record for "Largest Simultaneous Thriller Dance."  The number of total participants will be tallied over the next few days and posted on http://www.thrilltheworld.com/, where you can also learn the dance.  I dunno... I still think the filipino prisoners beat this.

ZOMBIES in PLAIN ENGLISH:  A handy video survival guide for the season.

IT'S ALIVE!  How Frankenstein Created a Cultural Monster.

WAR of the WORLDS:  The infamous Orson Welles broadcast turned 69 yesterday.  You can stream it from the Internet Archive.

HALLOWEEN TRIVIA gets a linky round-up from the Bismarck Tribune.

THE 13 TOP-EARNING DEAD CELEBS, according to Forbes magazine.  As predicted last year, Kurt Cobain is off the list.  There are still plenty of musicians, but the number three slot goes to "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz, which takes to...

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, in its entirety, Charlie Brown.  Every year, the bootleg video rises from the Internet patch.

A TRICK on News10 Good Morning in Sacramento, CA is your treat,

A TRAILER FULL of HUMAN HEADS:  It was not the type of cargo Royse City Police expected to find early on a Sunday morning traffic stop.

HALLOWEEN is not as big a holiday in Germany, where passengers on a train mistook a reveller dressed as a zombie for a murder victim and called the police.

BRITAIN'S TEN MOST HAUNTED Historic Homes, according to the National Trust.

SMASHING PUMPKINS:  Metro features a gallery of designs from Extreme Pumpkins, while /Film showcases cinematic designs.

THIS YEAR'S COSTUME TREND:  Little girls dressing as skanks.

CONSUMER PROBE:  Speaking of costumes, as a public service, I point you to this classic expose of hazardous Halloween costumes, featuring an interview of costumer Irwin Mainway.

CRAZY PET HALLOWEEN COSTUMES, courtesy of NBC10 in Philadelphia.  But none of them make BWE's list of the Top 10 Most Humiliating Pet Costumes.

PRECIOUS the BULLDOG was tagged by graffiti artists.  That trick is no treat.

WILD BOARS are destroying farmland and forest in tropical Queensland.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  You may now resume eating the varmints in the Garden State.

WHEN COWS ATTACK:  A Sussex policeman has been discharged from hospital after an attack by about 50 cows left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung.