Editor’s note: This is a terrifying time — deadline for our winter issue of Desert Companion , that is. But also, Halloween! Your favorite time of year, according to the wave of marketing survey-based pitches hitting our inboxes this week. In other words, it's time for a best-of collection of our spookie stories from over the years. Enjoy!
PROFILELife and Death (Mostly Life)
The reaping isn’t so grim at Bryan and Dusty Schoening’s Coffinwood, where the custom coffins, hearses, and other deathly touches are really about being more alive
By Krista Diamond
STYLEDrop-dead Gorgeous
This Halloween, be the living dead of the party with this sugar skull makeup tutorial
By Christie Moeller
TRAVELGhost Towns, Haunted Hotels, and Children of the Corn
Combine an autumnal road trip with a specter hunt on these five trips into the paranormal
By Mark Sedenquist
TVIn Praise of 'Ghost Adventures'
Why I can’t get enough of Zak Bagans’ so-bad-it’s-good reality TV show investigating haunted sites around the U.S.
By Andrew Kiraly
HEARD ON KNPR'He sailed away on a rowboat and set fire to his home'
From the SON archives, a segment about Nevada’s best-known ghost town, St. Thomas
By Fred Wasser