A veritable feast of Halloween goodies for you, loyal Steff Metal readers:

The Creepiest Stuff on the Web. I beg to differ, but there you go.

A great article from Metal From Finland’s Leila about WOA 2009. Right on, sister!

Offbeat Bride has been featuring Halloween Weddings all month, and you can read about our Haunted Heavy Metal Viking Wedding of Epicness. While you’re there, check out some of the other wicked Halloween, Gothic and Heavy Metal weddings.

Ex-Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen performed 4 songs at a Halloween Concert this weekend, including the world premiere of two songs from her forthcoming 2nd album. Check out the video for Witch Hunt.

 I love this story:

A little boy (maybe 5 years old) wrote to Maurice Sendak telling him how much he loved his books, his drawings, everything about him. As you might imagine, Sendak gets a lot of fan mail, but he was so moved by this one that he wrote the boy back and enclosed an original drawing, just for him

The boy was so overjoyed when he received the drawing that he ate it, the entire thing, every last shred of pulp and ink

His mom wrote back to the author, telling him the story. Sendak was thrilled, saying that that was the greatest compliment he had ever received

21 Halloween Costumes that will NOT get you laid from the Frisky. Sad, but true.

Yes and Yes goes on a Zombie Pub Crawl. What a wicked idea, which I am totally going to steal.

For the cozy Halloween night by the fire, you need one of the Burning Cities Firescreens. Check out fire-ravaged Rome, circa 64AD, and the Great Fire of London in 1666 – I read it was started by a baker’s oven.

Jonah Samson Photography presents Pleasentville – miniature scenes of disturbing happenings.

What other spooky goings-on have been happening around the internets?

Super Snuggles and Shoggoth Kisses
Steff