Halloween: The Best of Martha Stewart Living

Editorial Review:

Halloween is rivaled only by Christmas when it comes to the holidays that generate the most interest for Martha Stewart Living's readers. Halloween is a compendium of the best Halloween ideas published in the magazine over the last decade.
To help celebrate this ghoulish holiday, the editors of Martha Stewart Living bring us Halloween, a compilation of all the best tricks and treats of the spooky season.
Organized in two sections, Halloween makes this holiday so much fun it's scary. In "Tricking," pranksters will find all manner of pumpkin carving, eerie lighting, and makeup and decorating ideas. "Treating" provides the recipes for having a Halloween feast or a hanted-house party and ideas for making mischief with kids.

Halloween books abound, but none is as elegantly spooky or as eerily opulent as this gorgeous guide from Martha Stewart Living. Set the scene for the ultimate Halloween party with a magical yard full of pumpkins glowing with vibrant geometrics and sparkling with Christmas lights. Welcome guests with shadow lanterns flickering with bats and haunted windows. Strew the house with chiffon ghosts and fill the air with haunting sounds. Then host a pumpkin-carving feast, a crafty party, or a ghoulish supper, and whip up eyeball highballs, croaked messieurs, and spider-web sundaes. And don't forget the creepy makeup: follow along as willing victims transform into a skeleton, mummy, and several other creatures (Martha herself becomes an astonishing black widow). Excellent directions, full recipes, beautiful photographs, and an extremely detailed source list should inspire anyone to celebrate All Hallows' Eve with style. --Amy Handy

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Great crafts, treats, costumes and more!:

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and this book has some great ideas for crafts, costumes and food. One of the best halloween inspired snacks was for ladies fingers and men's toes, I brought these to a Halloween party and they were a big hit.
The crafts and recipes in this book are fairly easy to make with planning. Don't try to pull anything off at the last minute. But with some planning and the right tools/ingredients you can achieve a really beautiful finished product.

Good, but not great:

Halloween is not a big deal here in Australia, so I was looking for a inspirational book with plenty of how-tos and ideas... I bought this book after combing the Martha Stewart website, expecting more of the same great stuff. I was a little disappointed when it arrived. Still a good book, but I'd recommend going though the website first - a lot of the stuff in this book is contained there anyway. The book has a very appealing look, and is still a good read, but for sheer volume of ideas, all with easy... more info

Nice ideas although a bit pricey:

This is a good book but I couldn't help thinking that with some time I could find all these ideas online. But if you want a Halloween idea book for your holiday collection this is a great book and Martha's ideas are timeless and fresh. I don't regret buying it.

Halloween: The Best of Martha Stewart Living:

This book is wonderful. If you are planning a party for Halloween or just a fun time for your family this book will give you great and simple ideas.

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