“It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands where we’d be waiting… In our houses of wattles and clay… The barriers would be down, you see. Between the real and the unreal. And the dead might be looking in, to sit by our fires of turf… Halloween. The festival of Samhain. The last great one took place 3,000 years ago and the hills ran red… With the blood of animals and children.” – Dennis Etchison under the pseudonym Jack Martin

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
Written by Dennis Etchison under the pseudonym Jack Martin
Published in 1982

Despite the film’s critical failure, mostly due to the lack of Michael Myers, a novelization for the film was published in 1982 becoming a best-seller. The book was even reissued two years after the film’s release. 

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch
Written by Dennis Etchison under the pseudonym Jack Martin
Published in 1982

Unpopular opinion, I’m a huge fan of Halloween 3, even though I’m not a huge fan of science-fiction. When I was 14 years old, I went through a phase of being completely obsessed with horror films and began collecting the Halloween series. Season of the Witch was nearly impossible to find. However, while visiting a local used bookstore I came across this copy as well as a copy of Carrie (that I’ll eventually share here) and I snatched both copies up! How could I not? John Carpenter and Debra Hill were completely ahead of their time with wanting to make the series an anthology telling different stories each year and as much as I love Michael Myers and all of those different timelines, it is interesting wondering what could have happened if they would have stuck to that formula. 

The Background 12 – In 2018 the Halloween series reintroduced itself, bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode and changing the mythology of the series! With one line, they transformed Michael from brother to boogeyman, restoring a purity to the series. The backdrop for this photo is one of the locations used in the film when the Boogeyman begins stalking the streets of Haddonfield, Illinois. Last year I visited the filming locations used for the 2018 installment of the franchise. You can watch that vlog on my Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltnX_-2A8qQ.