October 1, 2025

It's October, so time for the Pumpkin Head Spice theme and the Halloween Reading List!

Ghostbusters Nightsquad: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One
By Bo Holbrook, Ben King, and Fritz Baugh
September 2003--Timeline Year Twenty One
It seems like just another day for the members of Ghostbusters Nightsquad. The original Ghostbusters are out of town, and a few small jobs keep things from getting too dull. But in the shadows, a sinister plot is being hatched...a plot that will change the team forever...
Guest stars Jeff Nash, Vincent Belmont, and Fritz Baugh.
(First Posted July 17, 2006)

Ghostbusters Nightsquad: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two
By Bo Holbrook, Ben King, and Fritz Baugh
September 2003--Timeline Year Twenty One
Catastrophe!!! The Extreme Ghostbusters defeated!!! Nightsquad's worst enemy has taken over Central Park!!! And Nightsquad can't do anything about it, because they're in jail!!!
(First Posted July 24, 2006)

Ghostbusters Nightsquad: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Three
By Bo Holbrook, Ben King, and Fritz Baugh
September 2003--Timeline Year Twenty One
As if the Blair Witch wasn't enough...the cult's plot has drawn in another familiar face, one that had nearly defeated the original Ghostbusters more than once. Will Nightsquad, even with the help of Vincent Belmont, Jeff Nash, Fritz Baugh, and Roland Jackson, have a chance in hell against them?!
(First Posted July 31, 2006)

Ghostbusters Nightsquad: All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Four
By Bo Holbrook, Ben King, and Fritz Baugh
September 2003--Timeline Year Twenty One
It's the final showdown between Nightsquad, their allies, and the Hain Witch. The fate of the world is at stake (again), and even if the Ghostbusters are victorious they will pay a price in dearest blood...
(First Posted August 7, 2006)

Ghostbusters Nightsquad: Aftermath
By Bo Holbrook and Fritz Baugh
October 2003--Timeline Year Twenty-One
One week ago, the Hain Witch destroyed his headquarters and killed two of his friends. Now, the drunken wreck who was once Bo Holbrook is confronted with the chance to rebuild--problem is, he's not sure it's worth it.
(First Posted September 17, 2007)

(Okay, it technically didn't take place on Halloween...but c'mon, SAMHAIN!!!)

Ghostbusters West Coast: Flipped Out
October 31, 2006--Timeline Year Twenty Four
It's Halloween and something extra weird is going on...as our heroes are confronted with a team of opponents who are both shockingly wierd and very familiar. Not the least of them, a woman named Ellie...
(First Posted October 31, 2006)

Ghostbusters West Coast: HELLoween
By Aidan Munroe
With contributions from the entire GBWC team
October 31, 2007--Timeline Year Twenty-Five
Halloween is the busy season for a GBI franchise, and this year's no exception. It starts with a familiar ship full of ghostly pirates...and then gets even wierder from there!
(First Posted October 31, 2007)

Ghostbusters West Coast: The Masks We Wear
By Jason Knetge
October 31, 2009--Timeline Year Twenty-Seven
It's Halloween, and sure enough something weird has happened: everybody has turned into their Halloween costume! Join Doctor Who, Deadpool, The Wolfman, Ash Williams, Kitty Pryde, Wolverine, and the Cat Girl as they try to figure out what caused this--and how to reverse it.
(First Posted October 31, 2009)

Ghostbusters West Coast: One Froggy Halloween
October 31, 2014--Timeline Year Thirty-Two
It's Halloween, which is seldom a quiet time for any Ghostbusters franchise, and this year is no exception for the West Coast office. A literature professor with personal ties to one of their own is being stalked by a froglike monster. Can they save him before he croaks?
(First Posted October 31, 2014)

The Real Ghostbusters 2023: The Monster of Lungbarrow, Part One
October 2023--Timeline Year Forty-One
TJ has returned home to London--but she's not making the journey alone. And what does the recent grave robbery in an Earl's family plot have to do with it?
(First Posted September 12, 2023)

The Real Ghostbusters 2023: The Monster of Lungbarrow, Part Two
October 2023--Timeline Year Forty-One
So why are John and TJ in England, anyway? And what is up with Ahagotsu's new "friend" Doctor Vidius?
(First Posted October 31, 2023)

The Real Ghostbusters 2023: The Monster of Lungbarrow, Part Three
October 2023--Timeline Year Forty-One
It's the birthday party for TJ's uncle, Sylvester Cadonfloyd. Emotions run high. Passions flare. A prodigal relative returns. A shocking dark secret is revealed.
(First Posted December 19, 2023)

The Real Ghostbusters 2023: The Monster of Lungbarrow, Part Four
October 2023--Timeline Year Forty-One
We know who Doctor Vidius is now, but what we don't know is why? Why has he kidnapped his own uncle? His agenda becomes clearer...though it might not make any more sense.
(First Posted February 29, 2024)

(Not technically on Halloween either, but a chapter was released on Halloween, and it's got a mad scientist, a black cat, a mummy, and a Frankenstein monster in it!.)

Thanks for reading!

--Fritz V. Baugh

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Tales From the Ectozone: Monsters
Late 2022--Timeline Year Forty
A Ghostbusters team in Paris recently met a werewolf. Back in New York, the Ghostbusters met a mummy with a terrible sense of humor, a zombie, and a magical cat. A mysterious meeting occurs somewhere in England, suggesting that these events may be related...
(First Posted August 26, 2025)

The Real Ghostbusters 2024: The Sign Of The Twins, Part Five
June 20, 2024--Timeline Year Forty-Two
A day they'd feared has arrived--the Herald of Gozer has returned. Driven by her own tragedies and trauma, the Lady of the Steady Waters moves ahead with her own agenda, and there is no way that's good news for the Ghostbusters. Especially not the possible Child of Zodiac, John Spengler--or those dear to him.
(First Posted May 13, 2025)

The Real Ghostbusters 2024: The Sign Of The Twins, Part Four
June 20, 2024--Timeline Year Forty-Two
John Spengler reels from what Enrico Amore has told him--and the questions that are still unanswered. Meanwhile, what has got Slimer so completely freaked out?
(First Posted February 25, 2025)

The Real Ghostbusters 2024: The Sign Of The Twins, Part Three
June 20, 2024--Timeline Year Forty-Two
As Eric, Marie, and TJ go on a bust, John has a meeting with the Dean of the Sons of Ether, a man who seems to have some surprsing knowledge of John's situation with the mysterious Children of Zodiac.
(First Posted January 1, 2025)

The Real Ghostbusters 2024: The Sign Of The Twins, Part Two
June 13, 2024--Timeline Year Forty-Two
So just what did happen to Eden and John both on the day they were born and in the early morning hours of their twenty-fifth birthday? And why is John so incredibly terrified by the implications of it?
(First Posted October 31, 2024)

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