Won't You Make Me To, Spooky Town?

We collect way too many things in our house but one of our favorite collectings is our collection of Spooky Town pieces. Spooky Town is like to Department 56 houses and accessories but they have a haunted theme instead of a Christmas theme.Spooky Town is made by a society called Lemax and they first came on the market back in 2000. It is sold in various different chain stores as well as online and we get most of our pieces at Michaels.

SpookyTown consists ofporcelain houses, and accessories such as haunted castles, morgues, grave yards, haunted ships and all kinds of monsters and ghouls.Most of the bigger items like the houses have moving parts, light up or make noise. They are designed to be set out and displayedas a big town like people do with Department 56 sets. Some of the accessories they sell to serve lay out your landscape include lights, platforms, trees and fences.Every year new pieces are introduced into thecollection an every year pieces get retired. To obtain special pieces that you wantor the retired ones, Ebay is a great resource.Wecurrently have several of the houses,a pirate ship and many of the smaller accessory pieces. The piece that I give in my pictures is one of our favorites. It is called Castle On Spooky Hill. It is a big opus and stands apox. 8 1/2 inches tall. This piece contains all the elements that make Spooky Town fun because it has lights, sound and movement. When it is not blocked in, it looks like your average scary castle complete withgargoyles and a sea snake in the moat. When it is plugged in, the palace comes alive with haunting sounds that include moans, bells chiming and thunder. The front door opens and the Grim Reaper appears.Then on the ceiling a trap door opens, lights flicker like lightning and aVampire rises to the top of the castle.Halloween is our favorite holiday and thiscollectable fits properly in with that.Little by little we add to the collection every year and one day we desire to let the place to set it up and lay it outas a whole town the way it was meant to be. For now we show our individual pieces in various spots and love them that way.