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