“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Halloween conspiracy theory going viral on Twitter has social media users coming to a startling realization about Bobby ...

This "graveyard smash" seriously slaps. The spooky season is comprised of a few time-honored traditions: jack-o-lanterns, people debating the merits of pumpkin spice lattes, and most importantly, “The ...

Soon any TV station that could afford the rights to these old films had its own version of it, including one in Philadelphia hosted by John Zacherle, who, assisted by his buddy Dick Clark, cut a proto ...

No song sums up Halloween more than “Monster Mash.” Bobby “Boris” Pickett was an aspiring actor in LA when he recorded it in 1962. It was just a novelty tune, but it spent the week before Halloween ...

The scientists at Miramax have apparently been working in the lab late at night coming up with an idea for an eerie sight. And what they’ve come up with is adapting someone else’s. The studio is ...

Monster Mash debuted in 1962 and has since been dubbed the biggest Halloween song of all time, having been streamed more than 500 million times and selling countless records over the years. It brings ...