A Halloween How-To

What is the difference between a goblin and a ghoul?

What's the recipe for pumpkin soup? Where can you see the oldest Halloween

parade in the United States? Have you ever wondered how to keep your carved

pumpkin from decaying too quickly?

If you're looking for information and instructions about every

aspect of Halloween, you've come to the right place. A Halloween

How-To is packed with ideas for October 31. There are fifty great

costumes you can make yourself, recipes for everything from fake blood to

pumpkin soup, and lists of great movies, CDs, and spooky books.

Lesley Bannatyne has even assembled a number of games drawn from

early twentieth-century Halloween celebrations, and includes sample text for

party invitations. (Our Halloween: Romantic Art and Customs of

Yesteryear postcards are great to use with these )

One of the nation's foremost authorities on Halloween, Lesley

Pratt Bannatyne has shared her vast knowledge of the holiday in television

specials for New England Cable News, Nickelodeon, and the History Channel. She

was an invited speaker at the Global Halloween Convergence in 2000, and has

also served as guest lecturer at the St. Louis Museum of Art.

For more than twenty years, Ms. Bannatyne also has been active in

the theater. She currently is co-director of Invisible Cities Group and

co-artistic director of the Studebaker Theater. Ms. Bannatyne resides in

Somerville, Massachusetts, and has been named one of "Boston's 100 Interesting

Women" by Boston Woman magazine. Ms. Bannatyne's first book, Halloween:

An American Holiday, An American History (pb original) is also

available from Pelican.