Halloween Letter Design
In your design, use classic orange or black, pumpkins, bats, spider webs or ghosts.
The main task: to convey the atmosphere of Halloween, but at the same time to be original, to stand out among other letters in the reader’s mailbox. What to offer clients on Halloween? Make a discount of 666 rubles or 66%, give the promotional code “Halloween”. Use other “magic” words and numbers. You can invite a subscriber to an event or release a limited collection of a product, or create holiday packaging.
We have made a special selection of letters for Halloween, in which you will definitely find ideas for design, theme and gifts.
Halloween Email Subjects
Why do we start with this one? The point is, before we can wow our customers with exciting holiday emails, we must first convince them to open those emails.
When it comes to Halloween campaigns, you should forget about clickbait like “Buy or Die”, “Spooky Sales”, “Trick or Treat” and the like - our inboxes are already full of such letters.
- Party time: It's alive... Let the horror begin!
- Merlin Entertainments: CAUTION! It's behind...
- Party City: Halloween Makeup Tutorials to Spook You! Boo!
- Joan: Cool! And scary!
- Vermont Teddy Bear: Once upon a full moon...
- Universal Orlando Resort: Just Announced! Something strange is happening!
- Esquire: Right now! The 32 Scariest Movies on Netflix!
- GapCash: These aren't ghosts, these are our Halloween pajamas!
- Maybelline New York: Horrible Halloween Giveaway!
- Fine Gardening: Halloween is Harrisburg!
- LALALAB: Boo! 25% discount if you're not scared!
- Etsy: You can still become a unicorn!
- Mailigen: Hurry up! Otherwise the bats will take it!
- AshleyStewart.com: Open it if you dare!
- GearBest: ONLY MONSTROUS OFFERS | Prices are slashed just in time for Halloween!
- Flying Tiger: Caught on a Halloween hook.
- Very scary... No more witches in garbage bags.
- Hobby Lobby: FEAR is coming!
- World Market: Eek! Hic! Hic! How scary!
- TaiPanTrading: The Witch INSIDE! Buy some great Halloween decor!
- HOT TOPIC: Don't go out alone!
- Spencer's: Living Dead Dolls... Scary Already?
- Spencer's: You've been warned!
- YOURS: Shout - Halloween-ee-in!
- Hot Topic: Skeletons in your closet -> Skellington in your closet.
- Briggs and Riley: A True Horror Story!
- PupLife Dog Supplies: Halloween Safety Tips for Dogs.
- Amerimark: Forget the monsters...Don't miss out on this Halloween sale!
- Peter Alexander: Dress like a nightmare, sleep like a fairy tale!
- Converse: Mystical coupon inside.
- Hhgregg: Just when you thought it was safe to open the letter...
- PacSun.com: Put a spell on you?
- Brighton: New Halloween charm.
- Rona: Horror? Ghosts? Puzzles? You decide!
- Party City: A spookily fun Halloween!
- Crate and Barrel: Check it out if you're brave enough.
- ShopYourWay: Don't be a CHICKEN. Do something for Halloween!
- BustedTees: I'm screaming... You're screaming... Ice Cream... Ice Cream!
- Hallmark Cards: Too early for Halloween? We say Boo!
- Brooklinen: Take the sheet! Halloween is coming.
Now that we know how to write a catchy Halloween subject line, let's look at some of the best emails.
You can also use our ready-made Halloween templates to create holiday emails instantly
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Letter 4
An example for those who are not suitable for using creepy images in design (online children's clothing stores, private clinics). The newsletter turned out to be very light and pleasant, but the company conveyed the holiday atmosphere through the orange color and the image of a bat. A banner stating that the discount is given only to subscribers (at the bottom of the letter) motivates you to follow the newsletter in order to receive lucrative offers from the company.
Everything you need to know about the scariest holiday - Halloween
Halloween holiday, msk.citifox.ru Boo! Sweet or nasty?!
On the night from October 31 to November 1, the border between the worlds is erased. Spirits descend to earth, the dead rise from their graves, and vampires, witches, unicorns and magical creatures walk the streets. Evil spirits are unleashed. Where did the tradition of celebrating Halloween come from?
From time immemorial, people love to scare themselves, and the fear of death is one of the most powerful in our minds. The best way to get rid of fear is to live it. When we face our deepest fears, they stop frightening us.
That's why Halloween traditions are so widespread around the world. Moreover, many cultures have its analogues:
•Day of the Dead holiday in Mexico
•Hungry Ghost Festival in China.
All these three holidays are a kind of portal between dreams and reality - the world of spirits and the world of people. They have more in common than it seems. Not only are they celebrated around the same time (Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31 to November 1, the Day of the Dead is celebrated from November 1 to 2, and the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival is celebrated a little earlier on September 2). These days, in different parts of the world, spirits come out into our world, and we honor the dead by offering them gifts.
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On Halloween, we come face to face with the things that cause awe and horror. With something mysterious. This is why not only classic witch and pirate costumes are popular during the holidays - we are no longer afraid of them. Now we dress up as bankers (because we're afraid of losing our money), dentists and nurses (because we're afraid of injections and dental procedures), nuns, priests (because we're afraid to see ourselves as we are in front of God), and even scrambled eggs with bacon (because we are afraid of obesity).
Thanks to Halloween, we can become anyone - this is the tradition of the holiday of masquerade, reincarnation. We can afford more than in everyday life. We can do something for which in ordinary life we would be judged
History of the holiday: we inherited scary costumes from the Celts.
Halloween has its roots in Celtic holidays. Thousands of years ago, Celtic tribes divided the year into two halves - light and dark. And the predecessor of Halloween - Samhain was the border between light and darkness, a fruitful autumn and a cold winter.
On the night from October 31 to November 1, the Celts burned bonfires, saying goodbye to the old year. They believed that the boundaries of time and space were blurred that night, and spirits from another dimension could cross the line and penetrate us. And ordinary people get lost in another, hostile world.
Stories say that since on this holiday the line between life and death is erased and we can easily touch the otherworldly, people need to protect themselves from evil gods and spirits. Therefore, the Celts dressed in animal skins and made sacrifices - animals and collected fruits. When the night ended, they took the sacred fire home to ward off evil spirits there too.
At one time, Christianity accepted and reinterpreted many pagan traditions, because it was easier to convert pagans to Christianity. For example, the Roman pagan holiday of Lemuria, celebrated on May 13, was renamed “All Saints' Day” by church decree in 609 AD. Now a tradition has emerged to honor the memory of not all the dead, but only Christian martyrs.
The holiday became so significant that Christians decided to move All Saints' Day to November 1 in order to displace the ethnic Sammain. Samhain was first called “All Hallows Evening”, then “All Hallows’ Eve”, and eventually the name we know is “Halloween”.
Christianity, according to stories, formed the tradition of begging for candy on Halloween. Poor children took food from the residents, and in return they prayed for the repose of souls so that they could go to heaven.
Jack-lamp is a lantern with eyes.
According to the traditions formed by Halloween, for the holiday people cut out scary heads from vegetables, light them from the inside and decorate their homes with them.
On the one hand, the head symbolizes the harvest festival, and also an interesting legend is associated with it about a drunkard who managed to deceive the devil himself.
“Jack tempted Bes to climb the apple tree for a juicy Antonovka, and as soon as he climbed in, he quickly carved a cross on the trunk. The demon, as you know, is most afraid of the cross.
The Demon will not get off the apple tree, Jack and the Demon made a deal so that he would not come after his soul, and the Demon promised him. The time has come, Jack has died, he comes to the gates of heaven, but he is not allowed into heaven. “You,” they say, “are an evil drunkard.”
Jack then went to an old acquaintance, Bes, and he said: “I kept my word, why are you contacting me?”
“Where should I go?” - Jack yelled. “Go where you came from,” says the Bes. But out of old friendship, he threw Jack a hot coal from the fiery Gehenna.
Jack was chewing a pumpkin at that moment, and he hid the coal there. The damned ember does not go out, and Jack also became cursed, there is no refuge for him anywhere, he has been walking around with his jack-o-lantern ever since. So it was customary among the Irish to carve a pumpkin and insert a candle into it on All Hallows’ Eve,” writes the BBC.
Why famine in Ireland gave America Halloween and why the Russian Orthodox Church is trying to ban it
In America, the Halloween holiday spread thanks to refugees from Ireland, who in the forties of the nineteenth century fled from famine that occurred due to a poor potato harvest.
Now people are preparing for Halloween in many parts of the world; the holiday is celebrated even in Russia.
However, the Russian Orthodox Church calls for a ban on this holiday because it violates Orthodox traditions and inclines believers to Satanism.
This is what they write about Halloween on the “information portal of the Petrozavodsk and Karelian diocese”:
“The pagan rite of Halloween is celebrated on the night of October 31 to November 1 on the eve of the Catholic holiday - All Saints' Day. Pagans, Satanists, sorcerers and witches consider this day theirs.
Orthodox priests warn: when putting on holiday masks, few people think that along with them they are adopting images of satanic evil spirits and, to some extent, a demonic worldview. People liken themselves to demons and thereby humiliate and destroy their image given to them by God.
The religious Satanism contained in Halloween manifests itself in literally everything. For example, an important attribute of modern possession is such “cute fun” as asking and giving away candies and other sweets. Essentially, this is a ritual offering to the dark forces. But schoolchildren don’t know about this. Just like their parents, looking with tenderness at children’s fun.”
Is it worth remembering that in Russia there is a tradition that has much in common with Halloween?
Folklorist Elena Krasnopevtseva writes about New Year's carols:
“They did not immediately divide into Christ-glorifying and sowing carols. For example, pagan meaning and style are visible in some folk traditions of celebrating January 14 - the day of St. Basil the Great, when the New Year was celebrated according to the old calendar. Despite the memory of the Orthodox saint, caroling on this day followed a completely pagan ritual: early in the morning children ran into the house, threw grain at the icons, cackled like geese, portrayed domestic animals - all this, according to pagan ideas, contributed to fertility.
Sometimes the carolers dressed up in unusual costumes: fur coats turned inside out, scary masks. You can still see such processions in the Carpathians. The meaning of such dressing up is also archaic: a caroler dressed as evil spirits personified a dead man, an ancestor who helped “fertility.”
As a rule, they dressed like this for the New Year, January 14, and on this occasion they sang exclusively sowing, that is, pagan carols. This custom was widespread not only in the Carpathians, but throughout Russia, only in our country it was condemned by the Church. “New Year’s” carolers were not allowed into the house, but were given treats outside the threshold or through the window. In addition, those who went to Christmastide in a “mask” were required to plunge into the “Jordan” at Epiphany - a specially cut out in the river and consecrated ice hole: to wash away sin.
“Christ-glorifying” carolers, on the contrary, were invited to the huts.
In contrast to dressing up in disguise, the “Christ-glorifying” carolers walked in procession with the star of Bethlehem, which personified the Magi’s worship of the Infant Christ and was accompanied by the singing of Christmas carols and the troparion of the Nativity. Although there are Christ-glorifying carols that do not contain Christmas stories, but only wishes for prosperity and wealth. Mixed versions are also often found, where “Christ walks through the arable land and sows crops,” and the Mother of God helps him. Most likely, these are ancient pagan carols, later converted into a Christian way. From the pagan past there remained a chorus, the text of which could also be mixed: “A carol came on the eve of Christmas.”
What to cook for the holiday so that it is “tasty and healthy”
Halloween is all about makeovers and parties. It is difficult for anyone to refuse another reason to gather for a holiday with friends and family.
The feast is another important aspect of the holiday.
Here are the options for what I suggest you prepare for Halloween from the “Book of Tasty and Healthy Food”:
“Pumpkin and its varieties (zucchini, squash) are very healthy and tasty vegetables.
Pumpkin contains 7–8% sugar, it has tender yellowish-white flesh, which, together with millet or rice, makes a good sweet porridge. Pumpkin is also fried and a delicious puree is made from it.
The best table variety is honey pumpkin, it contains the highest percentage of sugar.
Pumpkin with milk sauce
Fry slices of chopped pumpkin, place in a frying pan, pour in medium-thick milk sauce, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, grease with oil and place in the oven.
For 1 kg of pumpkin - 1 glass of milk, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour, 2 teaspoons of crackers, 2 tbsp. spoons of butter.
Pumpkin-apple pudding
(therapeutic nutrition)
Peel the pumpkin, chop it and simmer in milk until half cooked; then add chopped apples and simmer until the pumpkin is ready, then add semolina, stir and cook for another 5 minutes. After this, cool, add sugar, yolk and beaten egg white, mix carefully, place in a greased frying pan and bake. Drizzle with oil and serve.
Pumpkins - 100 g, apples - 100 g, milk - 50 g, semolina - 15 g, sugar - 10 g, 1/2 egg, butter - 20 g.”
Therefore, stock up on candy and delicious food for Halloween, and come up with a scarier costume for the holiday.
Boo! Sweet or nasty?!
Sofia BLYNSKAYA
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Entertainment and music for Halloween
In order for participants to feel the festive atmosphere from the threshold, it is necessary to select the appropriate soundtrack. It is not at all necessary to choose desperate screams and intense tracks from thrillers or horror films. Although Halloween is a themed event, it is, first and foremost, an entertaining event. The playlist for the evening may include popular tracks that have nothing to do with the theme of the holiday, as well as songs from your favorite films about vampires, witches or zombies.
Ideas for competitions
- Miss Halloween. Among the guests, it is necessary to select several contestants who will compete for this honorary title. In exciting competitions, girls must prove that they are the most resourceful, talented and graceful, and let the winner be determined by voting.
- Terrifying quiz. Based on the principle of the game “What? Where? When?" Participants are asked questions about interesting facts about Halloween or other topics related to All Saints' Day.
- Scary bag. In a thick, opaque bag you need to put various souvenirs with Halloween symbols, which cause ambiguous tactile sensations. The participants in the game are blindfolded, after which each of them must lower their hand, pull out one object and guess what it is. The one who solves the most items will win.
- Quest "The Wizard's Pantry". All quests are created taking into account the specific theme of the holiday. The main goal is to find the necessary items among the variety of witch bottles, jars, herbs and witchcraft devices.
- Dead man's eyes. This is a competition for accuracy. Props you will need are eyes (made from painted tennis balls) and a pumpkin with the middle cut out. Each team consists of two people. One is holding a pumpkin, and the second is trying to hit a ball into an impromptu basket from a certain distance.
It is also necessary to prepare souvenir gifts for the winners and participants of competitions. These could be original keychains, shards or skeletons, cups with scary funny pictures and inscriptions, comic diplomas for the scariest winners, and so on.
you organize a Halloween party that your guests will definitely remember. In conditions of limited space, a corridor created by the scenery can be dedicated to this homemade attraction. If you place a corridor of horror with ghosts suddenly jumping out, spiders falling or skeletons clinging to clothes at the entrance, a festive mood is guaranteed.
