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How to Haunt a House for Halloween (Halloween Book)

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BEWARE! This is about being a GEEK, not designing, setting up, or haunting a house. If you want to stick needles through your skin, get this book. If you want to build a headless statue or some other haunted house prop (like ME) then DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! It's fine for what it is; title should be: "dress up and do creepy tricks" not how to haunt a house.

Great ideas to make your own Haunted Houses. I used ideas from this book for my own haunted house. We really scared people I doing it again this year.

The book is designed for kids wanting to build a haunted house for a private party, school carnival, or similar event. Because it is designed for kids, some of the tricks are pretty simple, but there is still a lot of good material here. Also, because the author is a magician, some of the tricks are really more magic tricks than haunted house tricks, like card tricks, cutting a string or piece of paper and restoring it to one piece again, and the ball that apparently moves across a table by itself. Cute, but not scary. More useful tricks for a haunted house are the talking severed head trick, the headless person, the hand reaching out of a box to grab things, and tips for faking a seance. The tricks are described in two sections, one telling what the audience will see and the other discussing the preparation and method for pulling it off. The illustrations are also very useful for understanding the set-up. It also has a few tips on makeup, such as making fake blood and scars. It's an imaginative book, good for anyone planning a Halloween party, especially one for kids.

Full of good clean fun Halloween ideas for kids. When I was a kid I read this book and haunted my parents' house for Halloween many times. Kid and parent approved.

I refer to this book every Halloween. Friedhoffer is a master at what he does and makes each idea easy and affordable to do. I loved this book when I was young and still do. Definitely for all Halloween lovers.