Massive Halloween Carnival, Dance “Thriller”, Open Studios, Lantern Parade

Top of the list (and for the last time) it’s my own festival, the Boston Monster March, which has been pushed to Sunday Oct 25 because of rain. It’s a giant carnival, costume charity walk, and live concert, with $19,000 in prizes and volunteer giveaways, to benefit the Samaritans for suicide prevention. We’ll have 2 mechanical bulls, 2 giant slides, 3 huge inflatable obstacle courses, free facepainting, a free digital photo for everyone, “human bowling”, a bungee run, a velcro wall. You can learn to dance Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and our concert features Lifted, Ketman, Jaggery, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys, and Casey Desmond.

The formatting on this new blog needs work. I *will* get to it next week!

Here’s an overview of what’s happening. See the whole list here! –Johnny

Boston Monster March & Massive Halloweel Carnival (Boston Metro)

Zombie March to the Monster March (Boston Metro)

Woburn Annual Halloween Parade (North Shore)

Horror Thon (Boston Metro)

The Halloween Ball @ Belcourt Castle (RI) (Newport Area)

Hawthorne Hotel’s Reality Bites Costume Ball (North Shore)

Haunted Salem Scavenger Hunt (North Shore)

Nosferatu with Devil Music Ensemble (North Shore)

Salem State Zombie Monster Mash (North Shore)

Things That Go Bump in the Night & Trail of Terror @ Sturbridge Village (Southern Mass)

Things That Go Bump in the Night at Gore Place (Metro West)

Halloween Night Hike and Hayride (Worcester)

Great Pumpkin Nights @ Worcester Ecotarium (Worcester)

HAUNT for a cure & Haunted Cabins @ The Paul Center (Northern Mass)

Framingham Haunted Trolley Tour (Metro West)

Annual Great Pumpkin Float (Boston Metro)

Dorchester Open Studios (Boston Metro)

Acton Open Studios (Metro West)

Digging in the Past: Massachusetts Archaeology Month (Metro West)

Concord Festival of Authors: The Day We Found the Universe, (Metro West)

Annual Southern New England Weather Conference (Boston Metro)

Jamaica Pond Lantern Parade (Boston Metro)

Tokyo Kid Cosplay Contest (Boston Metro)

Boston Comic Con (Boston Metro)

Spirits of Falmouth’s Past Return (Cape Cod)

RI International Horror Film Festival & H.P. Lovecraft Tour (Rhode Island)

Fright Night @ Joppa Flats (Northern Mass)

Haunted Old New England (& Dog Show) (Western Mass)

Halloween Happenings @ Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary (North Shore)

Halloween Prowl @ Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary (Southern Mass)

Essex Clamfest (North Shore)

Franklin Park Zoo’s Zoo Howl for kids (Boston Metro)

Open Band folk dancing (Boston Metro)

Abolitionism in Black & White (Boston Metro)

International Climate Change Awareness Day (Boston Metro)

Hadley History Fair Weekend & 350th Anniversary (Western Mass)

Boston Book Festival (Boston Metro)

Annual Pumpkin Float (Boston Metro)

Pumpkins in the Park (Metro West)

Brookline Annual Book Sale (Boston Metro)

King Richard’s Faire (Ren Faire) (South Shore)

Wachusett Mountain Applefest (Worcester)

Studebaker Day @ Larz Anderson Museum (Boston Metro)