Halloween in America, on the anniversary of the first quarter century of the millennium. We celebrate the night by wearing masks, by flirting with fear, by turning the grotesque into entertainment. But here in 2025, you can’t help but feel like the masks didn’t come off this year. The trick-or-treaters will return home tonight, but the parade of make-believe monsters marched straight into the daylight this past January — and some of them are occupying the most important offices in our fragile democracy. What used to be a night for play-acting power, for pretending to be the villain, has turned into a movement that’s forgotten the difference between costume and conviction. The slogans sound patriotic, the anger sounds righteous, and the cruelty wears the grin of normalcy. Halloween, at least, has an ending — sunrise, candy wrappers, a hangover of sugar and smoke. But America’s current masquerade? The lights came on, and the masks stayed put.
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| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | David & Roselyn | Marie Lavaux | The Mississippi River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi |  |
| 3 | Dr. John | Marie Laveau | The Best Of The Parlophone Years | |
| 4 | Mississippi John Hurt | Spider Spider | Concord Music Halloween Eclectic 2020 | |
| 5 | Memphis Minnie | Black Cat Blues – Take 1 | Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937) | |
| 6 | Bob Dunn | Graveyard Blues | 1939-1940 (Warped 3921) | |
| 7 | Tampa Red | Witchin' Hour Blues | Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween – Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961 | |
| 8 | Memphis Minnie | Hoodoo Lady | Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween – Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961 | |
| 9 | Robert Johnson | Me And The Devil Blues | ABC Of The Blues Vol 18 | |
| 10 | Rev. Emmett Dickinson | A Black Cat Has Crossed Your Path | Apple Bobbing Mix Vol. 2 | |
| 11 | Charles Sheffield | It's Your Voodoo Working | 100 Northern Soul Classics | |
| 12 | St. Louis Bessie (Mae Smith) | Ghost Creepin' Blues | Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween – Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961 | |
| 13 | The Hollywood Flames | Frankenstein's Den | The Hollywood Flames | |
| 14 | Eels | Fresh Blood | Hombre Lobo | |
| 15 | AC DC | Hells Bells | Back in Black | |
| 16 | Original London Cast recording | In The Air Tonight American Psycho | Concord Music Halloween Eclectic 2020 | |
| 17 | The Frantics | Werewolf | The Roots Of Psychobilly | |
| 18 | Redbone | The Witch Queen Of New Orleans | Rockin' 70s [Disc 2] | |
| 19 | Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs | I've Got a Voodoo Doll | 1963-1968 – The Complete Wooly Bully Years vol.1 | |
| 20 | Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm | She Made My Blood Run Cold | Apple Bobbing Mix Vol. 2 | |
| 21 | Louis Armstrong | Spooks! | A Very Vintage Halloween | |
| 22 | The Duponts | Screamin' Ball (At Dracula Hall) | Roulette Rock & Roll, Vol. 2 | |
| 23 | John Carpenter | Halloween Theme | Halloween: 20th Anniversary | |
| 24 | Dr. John | Witchy Red | Television | |
| 25 | Bettye LaVette | Witchcraft in the Air | Motor City Soul | |
| 26 | The Deep River Boys | Swinging at the Siance | The Ultimate Rockin' Halloween Party (American Horror Songs 1930s – 1950s) | |
| 27 | Parham-Pickett Apollo Syncopaters (W/"Tiny" Parham & Junie C. Cobb) | Mojo Strut | A Very Vintage Halloween | |
| 28 | Truett & George | Ghost Dance | Diabolical Hoodoo: Vintage Songs Of Devilry, Doom & Hellfire 1920-1952 | |
| 29 | Nina Simone | I Put a Spell on You | Anthology Disc 1 | |
| 30 | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | I Put a Spell on You | Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween – Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961 | |
| 31 | Roy Buchanan | Haunted House | Roy Buchanan | |
| 32 | Tom Waits | Whistlin' Past The Graveyard | Used Songs 1973-1980 | |
| 33 | Dinah Washington / Max Richter | This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight | Shutter Island [Disc 2] | |