50 Things More Gothic And Respectable Than Twilight

1. Rentaghost
2. A child shining a torch upwards onto their face
   
3. Derek Acorah
4. The Trap Door
5. Long-forgotten ITV Saturday morning show Ghost Train
6. An actual ghost train
7. A lolly stick with "What do ghosts eat for dinner? Spookhetti!" printed on it.
8. A werewolf glove from a joke shop
9. The Groovy Ghoulies
10. Shakespear's Sister
    
11. A pair of novelty plastic Halloween fangs from ASDA, 9p
12. The Amityville Horror and the seven diabolical sequels that followed
13. The Demon Headmaster
14. Babylon Zoo
15. Count Duckula
16. Secretly keeping your hand hidden behind a door or desk and then making it 'strangle' you as if it's someone else's hand
17. The Monster Mash
18. Covering yourself in toilet roll as a cheap mummy costume for Halloween
19. A rubber bat on a piece of elastic
20. The Sarah-Jane Adventures
21. In comic strips, where the main character has an angel and an devil version of himself that give good/evil advice
22. Plan 9 From Outer Space
23. That ancient trick where you make your thumb appear detached from your hand
24. The skeleton baddies in arcade game Golden Axe
25. Ghostbusters 2
26. In The Night Garden
    
27. The joke "Why didn't the skeleton attend the ball? Because he had nobody to go with"
28. Evil Michael Knight
29. Cyndi Lauper
30. The flaming skulls in Sega arcade game Wonder Boy
31. Keith Harris & Orville's Messy Monsters game
32. Any October 31st editions of Whizzer and Chips
33. Alan Partridge's 'abstract zombie'
34. The Munsters
35. Meat Loaf
36. Caspar the Friendly Ghost
37. That one from Bananarama dressed as a devil in their video for Venus
38. The drama segment 'Dark Towers' from BBC Schools programme Look & Read
39. Dr and the Medics
40. Shiver and Shake comic
41. Carry On Screaming
42. Spray-on cobwebs
43. Any bored 6 year old girl dressed as a witch for a carnival
44. TNA wrestler Daffney
45. Grotbags the witch from Emu's World
    
46. Red-and-black striped tights
47. A badly-rendered drawing of an Iron Maiden album cover on a school exercise book, made by that greasy-haired kid who smells of marzipan
    
48. Those novelty eyes-on-springs glasses
49. Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde
50. Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein