Call for Submissions for our Fall 2025 issue -

Hello to all!

We welcome all Halloween artists to send in your art submissions for our Fall 2025 issue.

Seeking original, one of a kind creations constructed from (but not limited to) the following mediums: clay, textiles, assemblage, paintings, culinary, bones, wood, metal, and more. Keep in mind that the more unique and unusual, the better chance of being published - and again, NO AI will be accepted. Submissions must be of your own handmade, original art.

Please refer to the information listed below on how to submit and, most notably, the deadline: MARCH 7, 2025

 

 

 

 

Why do we carve pumpkins on Halloween? -

On this Halloween Eve eve, we ask ourselves this very question. So where does this tradition stem from? 

For those who are curious, read about it in the Fall 2021 issue of Autumn Brilliance - learn about the ancient tale from Irish lore, that of old "Stingy Jack" who comes alive on All Hallow's Eve!

- Click on link on left to order your copy - 

* UPDATES *

  * Our Fall 2024 issue reprints have been delayed, due to problems at our printer. 

We apologize for the wait, and will let you all know ASAP when we get our shipment in *

Back in stock again, and just in time for Halloween! 
- Our highly-popular Fall 2021 issue, dubbed "Hag-A-Palooza!" consistently sells out, and no wonder. It's all about the wonderful, strong, resourceful Wise Woman, the witches of both Halloween and real life, from archaic times up to the present. 

- - - We proudly featured none other than the esteemed Marguerite Surich Noschese as our Spotlight Artist, whose hand-crafted witches and other colorful, eccentric personalities spring to life like none other! That's one of her marvelous creations gracing the front cover.

- - -We also presented the incredible Ray Villafane and his other-worldly carved pumpkins and creatures. 

 
- - - And of course, our very special guest, Dolly Parton, who shared a one-of-a-kind interview with us about what it was like growing up in the Smoky Mountains and what she loves best about Halloween. Dolly also shared one of her favorite songs, the bittersweet "These Old Bones," which tells the tale of a lone mountain woman who was considered a witch, from her childhood.

Order your copy by clicking the link to the left! 

 

SOLD OUT: Fall 2021 and Fall 2024 - - -

 

We have more copies of Fall 2024 - - -

 Fall 2024 is now available at our Etsy shop!

We also have restocked plenty of copies of our 

Fall 2022, and Fall 2023 issues.

 ***While supplies last***

Sorry, we're sold out of Fall 2021

<---- Link here on the left

 

 

Back home from the Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show - - -

 Greetings, all!
Just one short snippet of thanks here...

    ***Got home late last night from our week-long whirlwind autumn road trip (of which we traversed close to 1800 miles across the country). The culmination, of course, was the wonderful, marvelous, amazing, incredible, magical Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show in Michigan. 

    ***A show we participate in, and look forward to for 365 days every year. We LIVE for it! A place where old friends and new gather under one roof to share fun, humor and love interspersed with the most heavenly hand-crafted art you could imagine. A show that ends way too soon, in my humble opinion... and I know everyone who has attended will agree with this statement.

    ***Cannot begin to express my thanks here - finally got to meet so many wonderful lovely fans of the magazine, it made my head spin like a top. I will post fully in here in the days to come (right now, still completely deliriously overtired). - But for now, a simple offering of my sincere love and deepest gratitude to the woman who brings this loving event into being. - - -> Thank you, Jennie Hepler-Takens, for inviting me into the fold, and for continuing this extraordinary tradition. 

    ***I remain thrilled and honored to be a part of it, and especially so this year because I finally own a piece of Jennie's original art, which spoke to me the moment I laid eyes on it. Everything she creates comes from her very heart and soul - And anyone who knows me knows that I love pumpkins and skellies.

- Rest assured, you all know it will be showcased in the most reverential way among my collection of Halloween art.   

Art by Jennie Hepler-Takens, 'My Dearest Witch'
 

 

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH - - -

Greetings to all! 

Our hearts and souls are absolutely brimming over with gratitude! THANK YOU for making our Fall 2024 issue so very special. We feel the love ❤️

 ***WE ARE SOLD OUT***

A temporary thing - more magazines are being printed, and will be available shortly. Please keep watch here, and on our Facebook & Instagram pages, for announcements on when a new shipment of magazines will arrive.

Of course, we will have plenty of copies on hand at the Bewitching Peddlers of Halloween show on Saturday, September 28th in Marshall, Michigan. Would love to meet you there - please stop by our booth and say hello!.

And don't forget, many of the fabulous Artists who appear in all of the issues of our magazines will be there, too, so you can get your copies autographed!