These Creepy Vintage Halloween Costumes Will Give You Nightmares

Creepy vintage Halloween costumes c. 1910

Long ago, before the glossy scourge of prepackaged superheros and princess costumes, Halloween brought ghouls and goblins into the night, terrorizing the neighborhood with their fiendish cackling and unholy demands for candy.

In volume one of the Cult of Weird vintage Halloween costume roundup we explore the bizarre intersection of Halloween and technology where cameras collided with a unique era of DIY costume making. This momentous occasion has given us a seemingly endless pool of strange, creepy and sometimes hilarious vintage Halloween costume photos to puzzle over on the internet.

A vintage Halloween costume c. 1865

Weird Halloween costume couple

Creepy vintage halloween costume

Creepy vintage halloween costume

Creepy vintage halloween costume

Creepy vintage alien halloween costume

Creepy vintage halloween costume

Creepy vintage halloween chicken costume

Creepy vintage halloween costumes

Creepy vintage halloween costume from Germany, 1920

Have any weird vintage Halloween photos to share? Send them to: info@cultofweird.com

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Patrick Sullivan
7 years ago

dude in the rooster costume is widely believed to be Aleister Crowley

BelleRoseDuPrintemps
BelleRoseDuPrintemps
7 years ago

In fact, the man in a bee costume is an opera singer in the role of Jupiter disguised as a bee, in Jacques Offenbach’s “Orphée aux Enfers”.

Liz Howard-Alexander
9 years ago

Very odd. Some of them I can’t guess at. lol

dana kulllmann
dana kulllmann
9 years ago

Okay, okay, I admit to having some fun in the 60s, but take a look at the 3rd one down, look at her skirt and scroll up and down…. Is it just me?