As plastic skulls settle around the brownstones of Manhattan and big bags of black and orange candy occupy all of Duane Reade’s aisles, Quarto’s Staff shares their takes on Halloween this year.
If you'd have to choose only ONE Halloween/scary movie, which one would it be?
Coraline!! (recommended 3 times!)
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
The Witch
Warm bodies
Tim Burton’s “Willy Wonka”
The Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren
Haunting of Hill House (it's a limited Netflix series? So is this cheating?)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Edward Scissorhands
Hocus Pocus
Halloweentown! (recommended twice!)
Favorite Halloween Treat
Trader Joe’s spooky bats & cats candy
Pumpkin bread or pumpkin pie!
Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Kinder Bueno
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!!
popcorn balls, even though I haven't been able to find them in years
candy corn >:) ik this is kinda controversial
Pumpkin Bread and Mulled Wine
Sour worms
Pumpkin Bread
Apple Cider
Hershey's Cookies 'n' Cream Bars!!!
Reese’s everything
*Disclaimer: this blog post is not sponsored by either Trader Joe’s nor Reese’s ;)
Quarto’s Spooky Reading Recs (!!!) :
Anything by Edgar Allen Poe ofc!
“Blindness” by José Saramago
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
"Fairy Tale" by Alexandra Kleeman (short story)
“All Hallows” (or almost anything) by Louise Glück
Emily Dickinson!!
“Murder in the Dark” by Margaret Atwood
“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
“All Hallow's Eve” by Dorothea Tanning
“Three Letters” by Remedios Varo (Bomb Magazine)
“The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris (the movie was way better, but if you're a fan, the book's not bad!)
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
“We Have Always Lived In The Castle” by Shirley Jackson
“The Turn of the Screw”
“Goosebumps” !
Costume Recommendations:
A plastic water bottle
Mr. Krabs
Squid Game!
Your ex's new girlfriend
Slutty Shakespeare OR Fran Drescher
ummm maybe put a tissue on your head and be a ghost!
Great Gatsby themed roaring 20s something
Bottle of hand sanitizer that actually squirts hand sanitizer
Sheet ghost. Hanging Chad. Slutty pumpkin.
A sexy cookie monster
I think Max from Where the Wild Things Are seems really cute!!
idk </3
I think Phoebe Bridgers would be a relatively easy costume idea...
an egg
And finally… join us this Friday at 6pm for QUARTO’S HALLOWEEN OPEN MIC!!!
Gather round for some seriously spooky poetry & stories – made-up or real – with blankets and torchlights, steaming hot beverages, and snacks!! The theme is Worst Best Nightmare (weird dreams, secret fears, guilty pleasures) – you can be as creative as you want with the topic, but you're also more than welcome to bring any other material you'd like to share with us.
The location will be on the lawn outside Uris.
Can’t wait to see you there!
P.S. The creative writing department is hosting a really cool event on zoom next week – check out the flyer below!
