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Is there a difference between the two? I bought a Halloween collection from sonmeone and it had 10 Spooky Hollow houses from Lemax Company. I looked it up on Youtube and the only village collections people show are Spooky Town. Also, if anyone know about these, I have one house called Spider Circus...but I cannot find it listed ANYWHERE on the internet, just wondering if its a rare piece maybe? Any insight would be great, and Ill be selling these too if anyone is interested. Thanks!

--Tony

I'm not 100% sure, but I think Spooky Hollow might have just been a rebrand for a specific chain. I seem to remember seeing them when we first started collecting (maybe 10 years ago?), and they had a couple of the houses we have in the Spooky Hollow packaging.

Spider Circus? That sounds awesome! We may need photos!

Welcome to the boards. Hopefully someone here will have definitive info.

Ok, I can get some photos up soon.

Whoops. Hope that didn't sound too harsh. Should've included a winky. ;

I'd love to see what you got. Are you planning on setting up a display, or was it just a great deal?

I almost think we saw the "Spooky Hollow" at Canadian Tire in... Canada, but it would have been probably 2001, so my memory could be totally shot. Seems to me they had a Greaves Mansion in that packaging, which was one of the early Spooky Town houses we bought.

I'm amazed that I can't find anything about it on the web. I consider myself a pretty good Googler.

Actually, I dug into the archives and found this post.

Spooky Town Pics

It sounds like it may have been sold through JoAnne's Craft Store. Can't tell if its the same stuff or not. And apparently Menards at one time sold them as "Pumpkin Hollow". Hope this helps.

Here's a pic of the stuff. Hope you can see it.

--Tony

Gobby, did you want pic of the Spooky Hollow stuff or the collection I bought? ANd yes, I do my whole yard up for Halloween and the inside of my house. 8) Im glad I found these boards!

--Tony

They look like their smaller and more overtly cutesy than the rest of the Spooky Town houses. I'm looking at something like the Spider Circus and it doesn't quite match the look of the Lighted Houses. They might be rebranded items from the Table Piece category. Those tend to be a little goofier and cute.

Wow, Tony - those don't look anything like what i had in mind - definitely not what I saw years ago. Very cool though (especially since I've never heard of them) but I don't know how well they'ed fit with the regular Spooky Town. Yyou never know - I didn't think Spooky Town and Dept 56 would work well together, but some pieces do.

Just went back and read your original post and saw you'll be selling these. We're fighting urban sprawl in our little spooky town already so we're keeping new pieces to a minimum! I think there's a for sale section on the boards somewhere though.

I'll look at photos of just about anything Halloween - it makes it so much easier to steal ideas. ; ) So whatever you'd like to share. You might want to check out the "what did you find/buy today" thread or "I Love A Good Yard Sale/Thrift Store Find 2011". Perfect places to post if you found some great bargains

These boards are amazing. If they don't warp your mind a bit, I think there's something wrong with you! Crazy, talented, brilliant people.

Please let me know what you want for the Spooky Hollow stuff. That is my collection I started about 10 years ago. It looks like you have a couple pieces I don't have. I don't think they are rare since nobody I have seen are actually collecting them, besides me. I just hate to throw in the modern stuff when I have most of the others. Please list pieces and prices so I can check with what I have to make sure I'm not buying twice.

Regards,

Growler