Welcome to Halloween Living Magazine!

Posted by Edward Mugarian in Art & Literature on May 4th, 2019

If you’ve stopped by because you love Halloween, well, pull up a chair and have a seat. This magazine is for you. Here you’ll whet your appetite with everything that represents The Halloween Life: Literature, music, movies, décor, food and beverage, events, conventions, haunted attractions, and more…

Throughout the time that I was developing the concept for Halloween Living Magazine, I was asked why? My answer: For many, Halloween is not simply a festival day, it’s a lifestyle. Though I was cheered by some, my answer was met with some contempt and jeered by others. That’s because Halloween is the most widely misunderstood and misrepresented day of the year. Though it’s not been labeled an “official” holiday, to those that celebrate Halloween, it is and more.

Every year Halloween provokes controversy and divides opinions: most people see it as just a bit of harmless fun, while others say it marks an ancient pagan festival – and some evangelical Christians claim it is a celebration of dangerous occult forces. In other words, this misunderstanding has run “amuck” and taken on a fractionated force of its own.

Halloween has become more than the unique privilege of basking in nature’s beautiful scenic display with the crisp autumn days amidst of the changing seasons, or the creepy-cool decorations, lit pumpkins on porches, and the tasty apple cider and donuts.

In fact, Halloween is a festival day that has come to represent our individual spirit, and embody pure personal freedom in a lifestyle. A lifestyle of furnishings, makeup, movies, travel and entertainment. A lifestyle associated with our interests and self-creation and experimentation as opposed to traditional or popular mass opinions and behaviors that have come to dictate daily life. As a way of life, we are permitted to unmask the repressed spirit inside ourselves, which has been suppressed by social conditioning. For example, look no further than the costumes online or in the stores; they’ll all different. Halloween allows us the choice to be who we want to be.

It’s for these reasons, I launched Halloween Living Magazine. To broaden the landscape of this unique festival day, clear up these common misrepresentations, and offer you an insider’s guide to the best of the Halloween lifestyle in entertainment, travel, and food and drink. Because Halloween matters to you. Arts and literature matter. But so do the small haunted house businesses, makeup artists, trade shows and conventions, and the podcasts and business experts who shape the industry. Here, I’ll do my best to keep you apprised of what you need to know. Visit soon, and please visit often. I’ll do my best to make it worth your while. If you have feedback, suggestions or questions, or if you’d like to submit your own article or article idea for consideration, you can email me here at halloweenmag@gmail.com

Therefore, welcome to Halloween Living Magazine. Here it’s okay to wake up from the casket of your life and be proud of who you are, and explore what you love to be.

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Edward Mugarian

Editor of Halloween Living Magazine, and a Detroit, Michigan native. After earning a B.A. in English at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, Ed pursued opportunities in public relations and management that helped mold him personally and professionally, developing his skills in writing and editing, marketing and advertising, public speaking and media relations. As well as broadening his experience in administrative leadership. In addition, he pursued film and special effects makeup programs in both Detroit and Los Angeles and worked on set as a special effects make-up artist. His passion for being a Halloween and horror film “geek” have been a constant throughout his life - cutting his teeth on the extraordinary works of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, and the great Shirley Jackson. His youth was spent hustling through haunted houses, and seeing the latest 70’s & 80’s horror films at the midnight drive-ins and local movie houses. He's also an avid horror film and movie memorabilia collector. One could say, he's autumn over summer. Pumpkins over pineapples. Horror over drama; and wearing black over anything else.
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