We just wanted to share Alex Aiono’s Halloween Song with you.

He’s a singer/songwriter/musician that is only 16 and talented beyond his years.

As Halloween nears, many families will gather around the old television set for the annual viewing of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

In celebration of Peanuts®’ place in history and pop culture, Lionel Trains is offering a chance to win one of four Peanuts® Boxcars valued at $69.99 each. Between October 15 and November 22, a digital Scavenger Hunt will take place on www.lionelstore.com. To participate, just go to Lionelstore.com starting October 15 and begin the hunt! It might be Snoopy’s house, a carved pumpkin or Charlie’s infamously sad Christmas tree. Each week, participants in the promotion will receive exclusive coupon codes for product discounts, free domestic shipping or other promotions. By entering every week, participants can increase their chances for the final prize. The winner will be selected in a random drawing from all the weekly participants, and that lucky person will receive a Peanuts® Boxcar.

The winner will be announced on Lionel’s Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Lionel-LLC. See www.lionelstore.com for official sweepstakes rules.

At Geek & Sundry (Felicia Day’s premium YouTube channel) they love Halloween too! In fact, one of their shows: Written By A Kid, just released their Halloween episode: ZOMBIE SPIDER.

Written By A Kid is a web series where kids tell the stories and indie directors make them come to life without changing the original story. As a result the stories are crazy, unpredictable and off the wall. Zombie Spider is no different! There’s gore, violence, God dropping a bazooka, and (of course) a giant spider that can’t be killed!

CNN just launched a project called CNN Celebrates http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn-celebrates

They are going to celebrate a bunch of big events coming up this year and Halloween is first up! They are after photos and videos of the coolest, weirdest and spookiest Halloween costumes and decorations to showcase on CNN. They are using their user generated platform CNN iReport to do it so people can easily upload the best photos and videos they have taken: http://ireport.cnn.com/topics/856991

The best ones will be featured on CNN.com and some will be shown on TV as well.

With Halloween only a week away, more and more people are getting into the scaring mood and in this week on SoulPancake’s “Subcultures” we follow Brandon Spletter and Jeff Schiefelbein as they build their own haunted houses. We follow their process of trying to make their haunted houses as scary as they can and meet the people who help them along the way. Even though they are working with a very small budget, we see how passionate they are in trying to scare people and make sure they have the best Halloween experience. This is a great way to show all the time and energy that is put into a haunted house and the people who’s job is to make sure people get scared.

It’s time to face the facts: the Zombie apocalypse is now and the undead are shambling among us. They’re gruesome, they’re hungry—and they’re bloody sexy with their brain-ravenous charm and a Keith Richards-like stagger.

For expert advice on how to cultivate the look, attitude and lifestyle of the undead, Zombie Eye for a Living Guy: Look Undead, Cook Undead. Dress Undead & Live Undead (Marion Street Press, October 2012) by J.M. Hewitt, with photos by Alexander Colby, explores the myth of the zombie sex appeal, investigating what makes these tattered, single-minded creatures so alluring. Written by an actual “zombie whisperer,” the book’s advice promises to release the average guy’s inner undead in one week, teaching him how to dress, groom, exercise, eat, date, decorate and shamble just like a real zombie. Acknowledging that one’s family may not understand the repulsive diet, tattered clothes or foul odors, these pointers contend that such sacrifices for popularity and seductiveness are all part of the program. Makeup tips, horrifically delicious recipes and practical lessons to be learned from zombie “life” all pair with striking photographs for an outrageous self-help guide just in time for Halloween.

Whether going through an experimental phase, blending in after the apocalypse or seeking out a killer Halloween costume, Zombie Eye for the Living Guy contains the essentials for acquiring that debonair, decomposing chic and mystique.

J.M. Hewitt has published short fiction featuring horror and fantasy themes in a host of online outlets, including The Harrow and Velvet Mafia. He lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Alexander Colby is a photographer, a writer, and an editor for popular media, lifestyle, technology, and culture publications. He is a contributor to Guyshop.com, Movieline.com, Penthouse magazine, NewYorkCool.com, and Fangoria magazine. He covers male interest subjects for leading men’s magazines and menswear for online retail distribution. He is also a hairdresser and makeup artist. He lives in Astoria, New York.