By Midnight Tonight...

Eastern Standard Time, the newest, latest, greatest episode of Hauntcast will drop into the hearts and minds of all you folks who love Hallowe'en and haunting when others are just thinking about planting their Spring gardens.

This episode is completely free, so if you haven't listened for a while, please download the show and spread the word. I'll post our list of segments tomorrow when I get done with my boot camp class, so you all have a good idea of what's on the show.

Hauntcast 45-Room 237

Hey, kids! The new episode of Hauntcast has dropped like a teenager's panties on prom night! In the newest episode, you'll find:

HAUNTING GURU INTERVIEW: Mike “Beaker” Parpovich of Terror on the Fox and Pale Eye Productions visits the dungeon.

GHOULIE GROOVES: Singer, songwriter and Midnight Syndicate vocalist Destini Beard.

 THE MARKETING MORGUE: Dick Terhune with the Lucky 13 strategy of making   your own luck.

THE BLACK MARKET: Bobbie Weiner of Bloody Mary Makeup bloodies up the dungeon.

THEATER OF THE MIND: Revenant explores using the concept of Group Think in your haunt.

THE CHARMED POT: The Mistress of Mayhem pays homage to Stephen King’s masterpiece The Shining.

THE PROP SHOP: Denhaunt and Chris compare their tools.

TERROR TURNPIKE: Vysther goes batty for The Haunted Cave in Lewisburg, OH.

SOMETHING WICKED: Wick-Ed Gannon drops some knowledge about the Drop Panel.

MAD PROPS FOR PROPS: The maddest of props for Brad Goodspeed’s Berstuk creation.

PLUS!…

We give away an awesome $660 “Boogeyman” silicone mask from Composite Effects.Congratulations to our winner this month: Jim Transue.
Enjoy the show!

I did a special blog post over on the Hauntcast "News" section that includes a bunch of links on "The Shining," so if you're interested, click here.

If you've never listened to the show, go to the Hauntcast home page and click on the old-timey radio on the upper left section of the page to download free episodes. If you have listened to the show and are balking at investing in your 2013 haunt by purchasing a subscription, then head over to the "News" page and click on any entry that has a sample of a current segment from the show. It may convince you to subscribe and take your haunt-home or pro- to the next level! 

For instance, a segment new to Season Four of Hauntcast is "The Marketing Morgue," with The Voice From Hell, Dick Terhune. Even though I'm not promoting my haunt in this way, I've learned a bunch about marketing from this segment that I can apply to my ceramics business.

Previous listeners will remember Revenant's great segment, "Theater of the Mind," in which Rev discusses the psychology of haunting and how to include it in your haunt. I swear, his segment gets better, every time!

O.K., I'll stop with the ad for Hauntcast. But before I do, know that we have been green-lighted for a fifth season, and that we're the best possible way you have to spend your Christmas money...

Bloody kisses, darklings!

Hauntcast: We're Everywhere!

Not only is Hauntcast going to be represented at the National Haunters Convention (where you can meet Johnny Thunder and Denhaunt) and the West Coast Haunters Convention, but a brand new episode of our fabulous show is up on the Hauntcast site!

From the desk of Chris "The Most Interesting Man in the World" Baker:

Hauntcast Radio for Haunters and Halloween Fanatics is available now.

– Johnny breaks Chris’ beans and bellows his review of Scream 4.
– Is scaring the crap out of people the only objective of a haunt? Revenant reports, you decide.
– The Mistress of Mayhem leads you into the dark depths of the French and Italian catacombs.
– Chris’ spider senses are tingling as he bows down and gives up props to Spider Ryder’s Giant Spider.
– The dungeons new denizens, the Hauntcast 10 Dwarfs.
– Denny straps on the latex once again to demonstrate home made corpse lids.
– Author of Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History & newly released Halloween Nation: Behind the scenes of America’s fright night Lesley Bannatyne joins Chris for a behind the scenes sneak peek at her new book.

We are offering Tees, Baby Doll Shirts and Hoodies specials with a subscription for a limited time. Don’t hesitate, get your subscription today.

For those of you rock stars who already subscribe and want to add to your collection of super cool t-shirts, Chris is taking pre-orders for t-shirts for boys, baby doll t-shirts for the girls, and hoodies for all! If you want 'em, amble over to the Hauntcast site and pre-order them now, before they disappear!

Oooo! New Hauntcast Tidbits!

Chris Baker is really going out of his way to make it super-easy to expose himself-I mean expose Hauntcast-to new audiences. From the desk of the man, himself:

  "Not only are the past two seasons of Hauntcast available for Free on the Archives page and iTunes, but we are now infecting the non-members with a 10-15 minute sample of all the 2011 shows. Spread the word like VD and lure non-subscribers to sample the latest episodes."

O.K., now, seriously, folks. I've heard that a few people don't listen anymore because the new episodes of the show aren't on iTunes. Even though you can still download them off the site and then to your iPod, Chris is still taking the time to figure out a way to make the new episodes available on iTunes for you. (BTW, if you know how to set up a paid subscription on iTunes, please contact Chris and help him out.)

He's made the old episodes available again on Hauntcast's Archive page, even though people were downloading them all and not subscribing. He's made some of our prop-making videos available without charge because someone who doesn't even subscribe to the show made a big stink about it. We've replaced the commercials we used to have with more, better content. And so far as we can tell, our production value is better than it has ever been.

In short, we've done everything for you but come to your house and hit the "subscribe" button for you.

So, now is the time, kids! Show your support of our hours and hours and hours of hard work and subscribe, already!

Love you! Love your show!

UPDATE! IPhone and Droid apps will be available next week to download the last two seasons of Hauntcast and 10-15 minute previews of current shows!

It's Up!

The latest and greatest episode is now up! Seriously, it's really good.

Click on the pic to head over and subscribe, or members can sign in and go to the member page to download the episode. (Hint: Randy Bates!)

Hey! We're Nominated!

It looks like the craven begging we did to get you folks to nominate Hauntcast for the Podcast awards worked! Since I'm a big fan of the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," philosophy, I'm here to cravenly beg that you take some time to vote for us in the "Best Produced" and "General" categories. You can vote daily, too! UPDATE: Apparently, you have to vote daily to get the votes to win. Sorry it's such a p.i.t.a., but there you have it!


Please head over to the Podcast Awards website and vote. (You can even click on the cute little banner above and it'll take you to the website.)

If you want to get the word out about this event, take a few minutes to post about it on your blog, or on Facebook, Twitter, or the bathroom wall. (Potty humor does have its place...)

Voting ends December 15th, so don't wait! You might even win a date with Chris Baker. (That blatant lie seemed to have worked last time, so I'll throw it out there again...)

If you haven't listened to Hauntcast, all the episodes are available on http://hauntcast.net/ for download. Keep in mind: we are definitely not safe for work, small children, or farm animals!

What Day Is It?

It's the day the new Hauntcast comes out!

News, horror reviews, how-tos, and me! Your very own Mistress of Mayhem. Join da crew of Johnny Thunder, Chris Baker, Revenant, Dr. Morbius, myself and special guest, Ralph "Ironman" Mitchell,  founder of the now defunct Ironstock.