We’re far enough into October that I cannot remember what we’ve covered and what’s left to be said.

This is further complicated by the haphazard way I’ve gone about it this year after several years of not doing it at all. But we continue.

October is for the Hollywood monsters. It is for Nosferatu across the decades. It is for the many actors who have played Dracula, Frankenstein and his Bride, the Mummy, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

It is for all the werewolves and all the actors who played them, from Michael J. Fox to Michael Landon.

It’s for every iteration of the Munsters and the Addams Family. It is for the Canadian television series Lost Girl, for Charmed, and Angel, and Buffy, and Supernatural. It’s for Warehouse 13 and the X-Files.

It’s for Halloweentown.

And The Craft.

And Hocus Pocus.

And for Practical Magic.

It’s for everyone who has committed a monster or a scare to film, including my friend Bird who is actually the Blair Witch, though we do not talk about it.