Note: You can release all month long, though some of us like to release all or most of our books to the trick or treaters on Halloween night. That is optional though. No prizes for this Challenge -- it's just for fun! Join in at any time.
Rules, mostly the same as last year:
1 - Please DON'T post planned releases; only books that have a release note will count.
2 - ONLY books with an approved word in the title (or author's name) or picture on the cover will count. See list below. If you have questions, please ask before releasing.
3 - Any type of release is okay! (OBCZ, mailing, wild, controlled, etc). Feel free to post catches (of any except controlled releases) too.
4 - All types of books are good - including children's and non-English books. You may use the title of the book, the author's name *OR* the picture. (Please state what the picture is in your post, though!) Plurals are also okay (ie Spirits, Ghosts, Monsters)
5 - Embedded words are okay! (But please tell us what the word is; I am terrible about finding embedded words.)
6 - The Challenge starts October 1st and ends at Midnight, October 31st your time zone.
7 - Dual/Overlapping challenges are okay!! (Note: some words on the list below are also on the Tick Tock Challenge list.)
8 - Please put a link to this Release Challenge in your journal entry or release note.
9 - Please number your releases and post link, title (and author if that if why it fits) like this:
1. http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/9772872 Rainbow Magic Special Edition: Trixie the HALLOWEEN Fairy
I ask that you post both the link and the title (and author if that's what makes the book count) because looking at a BCID number is no fun at all. Looking at the BCID *and* the title of whatever book you released is what makes it interesting. Capitalizing the acceptable word is nice too. Books with just a link and no title won't be counted.
10 - ONLY THOSE LISTED BELOW will count as words or pictures, but if you have a suggestion of a word to add, post here and I'll let you know if we'll allow it.
Words and Pictures that work:
Alien
Afterlife
All Hallow's Eve
Bad
Bat
Beast
Black Cat
Blood / Bleed / Bloody
Body
Boggart
Bone
Boo!
Brimstone
Broom/-stick
Bump in the Night
Bury / Buried
Candy / Chocolate (etc)
Candle
Casket
Cauldron
Cemetery / Sematary
Charm / Charmed
Chill / Chilled / Chilling
Cobweb
Coffin
Corpse
Costume
Creature
Creepy / Creeps
Creepypasta
Crypt
Cryptids (Loch Ness Monster, Mothman, Yeti, etc)
Curse
Damned
Dark / Darker / Darkest / Darkness
Dead / Death / Die / Dying
Demon
Devil / Beelzebub / Lucifer / Mephistopheles / Prince of Darkness / Satan / Diablo
Doomsday
Dracula
Dusk / Evening
Enchanter
End
Evil
Executioner
Fang / Claw
Fear / Fright / Terror
Fiend / Fiendish
Frankenstein
Freak
Frog
Gallows
Gargoyle
Ghost
Ghoul
Goblin
Goosebumps
Gory / gory details
Grave / Gravestone / Graveyard
Gremlin
Hades
Hag
Halloween / Hallowe'en / Hallows Eve / Samhain
Hangman / Noose
Haunt / Haunted / Haunting
Hearse
Hell / Hellfire
Hemlock
Hex
Horror
Howl
Incantation
Invisible Man
Jack O'lantern
Kill / Killer / Killing
Living Dead
Lizard
Lycanthropes / Animorph / Shapechanger
Macabre
Magic / Magyk
Mask
Massacre
Midnight
Monster
Moon
Morgue
Mummy
Murder
Night / Nightmare
October
Ogre
Owl
Phantom
Poison
Poltergeist
Possession (of the demonic sort)
Pumpkin
Rat
Raven
Scar
Scarecrow
Scary / Scare / Scared / Scaredy Cat / Fraidy cat / Afraid
Scream / Shriek / Eek
Sepulcher
Shadow / Shade
Skeleton
Skull
Slaughter
Slay / Slaying
Snake
Sorcerer / Sorceress / Sorcery
Soul
Spectre
Spell
Spiders / Bugs / Creepy Crawlies (be creative! any sort of bug will work)
Spiderweb
Spirit
Spook / Spooky
Supernatural
Things that go Bump in the Night
Thriller
Toad
Tomb / Tombstone
Trick / Treat
Troll
Twilight
Undead
Underworld
Vampire / Nosferatu / Dracula / Vampyre
Voodoo
Warlock
Web
Wicca / Wiccan
Wicked
Witch
Wizard / Sorcerer
Wolf Man / Werewolf / Dog Man
Zombie