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.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	David & Roselyn	Marie Lavaux	The Mississippi River of Song: A Musical Journey Down the Mississippi
2	Dr. John	Marie Laveau	The Best Of The Parlophone Years
3	Mississippi John Hurt	Spider Spider	Concord Music Halloween Eclectic 2020
4	Memphis Minnie	Black Cat Blues – Take 1	Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
5	Bob Dunn	Graveyard Blues	1939-1940 (Warped 3921)
6	Tampa Red	Witchin' Hour Blues	Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween – Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961
7	Memphis Minnie	Hoodoo Lady	Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween – Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961
8	Robert Johnson	Me And The Devil Blues	ABC Of The Blues Vol 18
9	Rev. Emmett Dickinson	A Black Cat Has Crossed Your Path	Apple Bobbing Mix Vol. 2
10	Charles Sheffield	It's Your Voodoo Working	100 Northern Soul Classics
11	St. Louis Bessie (Mae Smith)	Ghost Creepin' Blues	Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween – Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961
12	The Hollywood Flames	Frankenstein's Den	The Hollywood Flames
13	Eels	Fresh Blood	Hombre Lobo
14	AC DC	Hells Bells	Back in Black
15	Original London Cast recording	In The Air Tonight  American Psycho	Concord Music Halloween Eclectic 2020
16	The Frantics	Werewolf	The Roots Of Psychobilly
17	Redbone	The Witch Queen Of New Orleans	Rockin' 70s [Disc 2]
18	Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs	I've Got a Voodoo Doll	1963-1968 – The Complete Wooly Bully Years vol.1
19	Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm	She Made My Blood Run Cold	Apple Bobbing Mix Vol. 2
20	Louis Armstrong	Spooks!	A Very Vintage Halloween
21	The Duponts	Screamin' Ball (At Dracula Hall)	Roulette Rock & Roll, Vol. 2
22	John Carpenter	Halloween Theme	Halloween: 20th Anniversary
23	Dr. John	Witchy Red	Television
24	Bettye LaVette	Witchcraft in the Air	Motor City Soul
25	The Deep River Boys	Swinging at the Siance	The Ultimate Rockin' Halloween Party (American Horror Songs 1930s – 1950s)
26	Parham-Pickett Apollo Syncopaters (W/"Tiny" Parham & Junie C. Cobb)	Mojo Strut	A Very Vintage Halloween
27	Truett & George	Ghost Dance	Diabolical Hoodoo: Vintage Songs Of Devilry, Doom & Hellfire 1920-1952
28	Nina Simone	I Put a Spell on You	Anthology Disc 1
29	Screamin' Jay Hawkins	I Put a Spell on You	Blues, Blues, Hoodoo, Halloween – Scary Blues & Jazz 1925-1961
30	Roy Buchanan	Haunted House	Roy Buchanan
31	Tom Waits	Whistlin' Past The Graveyard	Used Songs 1973-1980
32	Dinah Washington / Max Richter	This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight	Shutter Island [Disc 2]