41 More Halloween Costume Ideas


  1. The Papin Sisters 
  2. Maude Gonne - Yeats inaccessible beloved, member of The Golden Dawn
  3. Francis Hayes -the jockey who won a 1923 steeplechase while dead
  4. Typhoid Mary - willfully spread typhoid fever to the families she cooked for 
  5. Fox Sisters who set off the mode for Spiritualism in the 19th C US
  6. Julius Evola - wicked Italian occultist 
  7. Dr Moreau or his creations
  8. Randolph Carter 
  9. Sheela na gig -perhaps obscene, depending on viewpoint, creatures that haunt medieval churches. Be careful, you could get arrested.
  10. Isdal woman 
  11. Duchesse de Praslin
  12. Odile- the Black Swan and sorcerer's daughter
  13. Maria Owens - Alice Hoffman's witch matriarch of her Practical Magic series
  14. Inês de Castro 
  15. Menoptera - early Dr. Who aliens
  16. SarahWinchester- who built and built and built the haunted California Winchester house to stave of the ghosts of all who had been killed by the Winchester gun
  17. 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Whore of Babylon 
  18. Jean Spangler - disappeared 1940s starlet
  19. Roald Dhal's Landlady- who had an interesting diet
  20. Jeanne Duval- Baudelaire's mysterious mistress, muse of the Flowers of Evil
  21. Colonel Pyncheon of  Hawthorne's 1851 House of the Seven Gables
  22. The Raven King - the magician of Faerie who brought down the tradition of English Magic in Susannah Clarkes Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell
  23. Banquo- Shakespeare's ghost from Macbeth.
  24. Barnabas Collins - the beloved vampire of Dark Shadows
  25. Rhiannon - the Welsh Witch made famous by Stevie Nicks
  26. Rebecca - The First Mrs. De Winter
  27. Seek out some inspiration in Goya's Caprichos series
  28. Prospero- Shakespeares Magician extraordinaire in the Tempest
  29. Merricat (Mary Katherine) Blackwood - from Shirley Jackson's 1962 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  30. Five canonical victims of Jack the Ripper - don't look at the photos
  31. Bunnyman of Virginia 
  32. Peg Entwistle - starlet who completed suicide in 1932 by jumping from the Hollywood sign 
  33. Spring Heeled Jack
  34. Elmer McCurdy - mummified Old West outlaw whose corpse ended up in carnaval fairs.
  35. Queen of the Night - The wicked? queen of Mozart's Magic Flute with her famous aria, "The Wrath of Hell is in my Breast" 
  36. Mr. Qualtrough
  37. Prometheus- whose liver was ripped out by an Eagle in the underworld for bringing fire to humankind
  38. Neal Cassady/ Dean Moriarty-Beat Criminal
  39. Bill Sykes - villain of Dickens' 1838 Oliver Twist 
  40. Maggie Dickson- who surived her own hanging and was nearly buried alive
  41. Bosch - go gaze at his 1490 Hell and you'll find something 
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