David Bertolino has been described as a combination of Walt Disney and Stephen King. Throw in PT Barnum and you’re getting closer. A producer, writer, and entrepreneur, he is first and foremost a showman. Bertolino was already a legend in the costume industry when he single-handedly transformed Halloween from a night of trick-or-treating into a season like Christmas. For a dozen years, Bertolino ran and was the spokesman for Spooky World, appearing in hundreds of newspapers and magazine articles, including the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and radio and television interviews on shows including The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Entertainment Tonight. Bertolino has pioneered the Halloween megastore concept and written and produced off-Broadway plays in New York and Los Angeles. He is also the subject of the documentary Spooktacular!.Alice Cooper is a legendary rock icon and a household name who tours the world every year. He has hosted ten of his own annual Alice Cooper Celebrity Golf Tournaments, and is a comfortable five handicap. He is author of Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, published by Aurum.Linda Blair is an American actress, activist, and beloved "scream queen" thanks to her role as Regan MacNeil in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. The role won her a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, while firmly establishing her as a Spooky Season icon and cementing her in our nightmares for all time.

"This book chronicles it all. The good, the bad, and the ugly, and there are some truly hilarious stories recounted in these pages...part time capsule, part time machine, part loving remembrance, and part amazing story...I’m giving this one 4.75 out of 5 spooky hayrides…get on board now."

• Foreword: Spooky Days Gone ByForeword: Phenomenal Frights Preface: The Epicenter of UnearthlyEntertainment PROLOGUEThe Hauntrepreneur1990 The Hayride 1991 Spooky Hayrides at the Berlin Fun Farm 1992 Get Linda Blair 1993 Elvira and The Scream Queens 1994 Stunts and Stars1995 Peppers, Pickaxes, and Smashing Pumpkins . . .1996 Alice in Spookyworld 1997 Postmark Spookyworld 1998 Attack of the Building Inspector 2000 Return of the Living Spookyworld 2001 Beyond Horror 2002 Stars Gone Wild 2003 The Beginning of the End Epilogue: The Afterlife of Spookyworld Index Acknowledgments About the Author

David Bertolino has been described as a combination of Walt Disney and Stephen King. Throw in PT Barnum and you’re getting closer. A producer, writer, and entrepreneur, he is first and foremost a showman. Bertolino was already a legend in the costume industry when he single-handedly transformed Halloween from a night of trick-or-treating into a season like Christmas. For a dozen years, Bertolino ran and was the spokesman for Spooky World, appearing in hundreds of newspapers and magazine articles, including the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and radio and television interviews on shows including The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Entertainment Tonight. Bertolino has pioneered the Halloween megastore concept and written and produced off-Broadway plays in New York and Los Angeles. He is also the subject of the documentary Spooktacular!.Alice Cooper is a legendary rock icon and a household name who tours the world every year. He has hosted ten of his own annual Alice Cooper Celebrity Golf Tournaments, and is a comfortable five handicap. He is author of Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, published by Aurum.Linda Blair is an American actress, activist, and beloved "scream queen" thanks to her role as Regan MacNeil in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. The role won her a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, while firmly establishing her as a Spooky Season icon and cementing her in our nightmares for all time.

"This book chronicles it all. The good, the bad, and the ugly, and there are some truly hilarious stories recounted in these pages...part time capsule, part time machine, part loving remembrance, and part amazing story...I’m giving this one 4.75 out of 5 spooky hayrides…get on board now."

• Foreword: Spooky Days Gone ByForeword: Phenomenal Frights Preface: The Epicenter of UnearthlyEntertainment PROLOGUEThe Hauntrepreneur1990 The Hayride 1991 Spooky Hayrides at the Berlin Fun Farm 1992 Get Linda Blair 1993 Elvira and The Scream Queens 1994 Stunts and Stars1995 Peppers, Pickaxes, and Smashing Pumpkins . . .1996 Alice in Spookyworld 1997 Postmark Spookyworld 1998 Attack of the Building Inspector 2000 Return of the Living Spookyworld 2001 Beyond Horror 2002 Stars Gone Wild 2003 The Beginning of the End Epilogue: The Afterlife of Spookyworld Index Acknowledgments About the Author

David Bertolino has been described as a combination of Walt Disney and Stephen King. Throw in PT Barnum and you’re getting closer. A producer, writer, and entrepreneur, he is first and foremost a showman. Bertolino was already a legend in the costume industry when he single-handedly transformed Halloween from a night of trick-or-treating into a season like Christmas. For a dozen years, Bertolino ran and was the spokesman for Spooky World, appearing in hundreds of newspapers and magazine articles, including the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and radio and television interviews on shows including The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Entertainment Tonight. Bertolino has pioneered the Halloween megastore concept and written and produced off-Broadway plays in New York and Los Angeles. He is also the subject of the documentary Spooktacular!.Alice Cooper is a legendary rock icon and a household name who tours the world every year. He has hosted ten of his own annual Alice Cooper Celebrity Golf Tournaments, and is a comfortable five handicap. He is author of Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, published by Aurum.Linda Blair is an American actress, activist, and beloved "scream queen" thanks to her role as Regan MacNeil in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. The role won her a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, while firmly establishing her as a Spooky Season icon and cementing her in our nightmares for all time.

"This book chronicles it all. The good, the bad, and the ugly, and there are some truly hilarious stories recounted in these pages...part time capsule, part time machine, part loving remembrance, and part amazing story...I’m giving this one 4.75 out of 5 spooky hayrides…get on board now."

• Foreword: Spooky Days Gone ByForeword: Phenomenal Frights Preface: The Epicenter of UnearthlyEntertainment PROLOGUEThe Hauntrepreneur1990 The Hayride 1991 Spooky Hayrides at the Berlin Fun Farm 1992 Get Linda Blair 1993 Elvira and The Scream Queens 1994 Stunts and Stars1995 Peppers, Pickaxes, and Smashing Pumpkins . . .1996 Alice in Spookyworld 1997 Postmark Spookyworld 1998 Attack of the Building Inspector 2000 Return of the Living Spookyworld 2001 Beyond Horror 2002 Stars Gone Wild 2003 The Beginning of the End Epilogue: The Afterlife of Spookyworld Index Acknowledgments About the Author