Winners
1st Place — Freddy (ROTLD)
2nd Place — Road Kill
3rd Place — Captain Spaulding
Congrats ghouls, nice work. I hope to see everyone back next year, and the year after, until the end of time…
It’s that time of year again and you know what that means… it’s time for the annual Halloween Love costume contest!
This year I’m picking 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, with the chance to win up to $100!
Permalink: halloweenlove.com/contest (every year the latest costume contest will be reachable from this link so make sure to save it so you can enter next year and every year after more easily) or subscribe…
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How to Enter
DEADLINE FOR ENTRY IS NOON ON NOVEMBER 2ND
You must complete all 3 steps to enter…
1. Submit a photo of yourself in costume here:
black@halloweenlove.com
(make sure to add my email to your contacts or whitelist)
Details Needed:
- Use the exact subject “Costume Contest 2014” (without the quotes).
- Describe what you are, what your costume is suppose to be.
- Provide a PayPal email address in order to receive payment if you win. If you do not use PayPal and do not wish to sign up for PayPal you may alternatively receive cash-equivalent gifts over iTunes or Amazon.
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For the photo…
- Attach only one that is focused on just you (no couple or group submissions).
- It should be well-lit, sharp and in focus, with no red-eye.
- Other than red-eye correction or cropping, do not Photoshop in effects or enhancements or multiple shots of the costume into one photo. Should be the raw photo of the costume as it looks in real life.
- High resolution and preferably portrait angled (holding your camera sideways).
- It must be you and the photo must be current, 2014.
- Do not submit on someone else’s behalf (unless they’re unable to enter themselves).
- One costume entry per person.
- DO NOT FORGET — You still need to complete steps 2 and 3 below to complete your entry.
You of course retain full copyright ownership of your photo, but by submitting it to this contest you grant me full permission to use it here on halloweenlove.com and to edit/name the photo as needed to be appropriately and fairly presented in this contest.
2. Retweet the contest:
3. Comment below to let everyone know you entered!
Have fun and good luck everyone!
Winner Selection
You may of course enter anytime during the whole month of October, but the winners will be chosen on the evening of November 2nd, giving everyone ample time to enter after Halloween night partying and recovery. 
There is no criteria or categories for costume judging. All costume entries are welcome, scary, funny, sexy, creative, original, whatever. I will simply be picking the top 3 costumes I like most.
Prizes
Prize cash will be paid via PayPal or in an equivalent amount via iTunes or Amazon gifts.
1st Place Winner — $100!
2nd Place Winner — $50!
3rd Place Winner — $25!
The Costumes
Displayed randomly. Click to enlarge.
Please note that “Likes” have no impact on winner selection and are purely for reader participation only.
Scary Skeleton
Permalink: Entry #25Amazing Dragon Rider
Permalink: Entry #2Richard Harrow
Permalink: Entry #34Victorian Vampire
Permalink: Entry #30Ring Master
Permalink: Entry #20Death of the Family Joker
Permalink: Entry #28Beetlejuice
Permalink: Entry #26Freddy (ROTLD)
Permalink: Entry #23Elvira
Permalink: Entry #9Vincent VanGhoul
Permalink: Entry #32Gargoyle
Permalink: Entry #24Vampire
Permalink: Entry #18Evil Fairytude
Permalink: Entry #33Monster
Permalink: Entry #11Unikitty
Permalink: Entry #38Valka
Permalink: Entry #3Chucky’s Bride
Permalink: Entry #19The Joker
Permalink: Entry #10Egyptian Doll
Permalink: Entry #17Iron Man
Permalink: Entry #13Beetlejuice Groom
Permalink: Entry #37Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Permalink: Entry #29Mary Poppins
Permalink: Entry #15Road Kill
Permalink: Entry #40Little Joker
Permalink: Entry #39Glam Meets Gore
Permalink: Entry #1Captain Spaulding
Permalink: Entry #5Vendetta
Permalink: Entry #8Day of the Dead Bride
Permalink: Entry #16Jessica Rabbit
Permalink: Entry #36Edgar Frog (Lost Boys)
Permalink: Entry #31Philip (NOES 3)
Permalink: Entry #27The Witch
Permalink: Entry #12Crazy Cat Lady
Permalink: Entry #22Angry Flower
Permalink: Entry #7Avatar Warrior
Permalink: Entry #6Shark Tank
Permalink: Entry #35Silverbolt
Permalink: Entry #4Peter Pan’s Shadow
Permalink: Entry #14White Peacock
Permalink: Entry #41Harley Quinn
Permalink: Entry #21Feedback
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42 Comments
I have just entered in the contest with my creation “glam meets gore”.
This is such a cool idea! A wicked form of beauty and the beast. You should submit a tutorial on how you did it to Halloween Love!
I have just entered the Dragon Rider costume!
WOOHOO! I entered the Costume Contest 2014. Check out my handmade Valka costume.
i entered the costume contest 2014 … here is my crazy transformers costume silverbolt
I just entered into the Costume Contest 2014 as Captain Spaulding From House Of a Thousand Corpses! Good luck everyone!!
Yep that’s One ANGRY Flower!
i entered the costume contest 2014, this is my Vandetta costume
Submitted my Elvira pic:)
Elvira!
i entered costume contest 2014
I Entered for this contest!
Hope to win finger crossed
MY ENTRY!
Submitted my entry!
Hope to win
Hey y’all hope you like my iron man suit I spent a year and a half building it out of yoga mats from Ross the clothing store submitted my entry here it is
I just submitted my corpse bride pic!
I just entered my Creepy Egyptian Do for the contest! I love HALLOWEEN!
Just entered my 3 year old and his homemade Ring Master costume. Fingers crossed!
eleanor abernathy. let’s see how many ppl recognize her
I entered as Harley Quinn >:D
I entered as “Freddy” from Return of the Living Dead
Entered!
Just submitted my costume – built articulated wings for my gargoyle on stilts idea! Good luck to everyone who entered!
Submitted my Death Of The Family Joker
Entered as Philip from Dream Warriors, jump ropes and all!
submitted my clockwork orange pic
Submitted my daughter as a victorian vampire. She rocked it!
submitted my Lost Boys Edgar Frog pic
Shared ours!!
I sent mine too
Submitted a pic of me as Richard Harrow from Boardwalk Empire!
We entered the contest!
Ghost Bride & Groom
I’ve been bitten by the Halloween Bug! The Shark Tank
I just entered my guy torn in half being carried by a ghoul!
Halloween is a great time to let those crazy creative juices flow
Beetlejuice has submitted just before the deadline!
This costume was a blast to freak people out in
Submitted White Peacock Costume – Isabella
I made this by hand for my 7 year old daughter with almost 300 bright white led’s,CCFL lighting, over 70 feathers, 24 AA batteries and lots of hot glue
Winners announced above filthy ghouls!
Whether you won or not, I hope you had fun and I hope to see you next year.
We throw this contest every single year and will until I’m rotting in the ground. So, hey, if I’m lucky, maybe 50 more years…
Thank you for entering!
Congrats to the winners. Good job everyone!
Congrats, Freddy (ROTLD), Road Kill, and Captian Spaulding. I am going to enter again next year!
And every year after, riiight?
Definitely! This is the second time I have ever dressed up for Halloween–the first time I was nine years old living in a mission–I was Disney’s Esmeralda. My parents weren’t too keen on Halloween. You know “poison candy” and “abductions”, but they came around