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The Tesla City Stories – Halloween Special 2019!

The Old Church Concert Hall 1422 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

A monthly night of vintage radio comedy and drama — live onstage in Portland, Oregon! Straight outta 1944! Laughs! Chills! Romance! Danger! Booze! Eats! Cash bar! Live Foley! 1940’s live music! Prizes! Audience participation! This month’s halloween special takes place in the beautiful confines of the historic Old Church Concert Hall deep in the arts district of downtown PDX. Enjoy the thrilling adventures of two episodes of the vintage horror classic, The 13th Floor! Since 2014, we at The Tesla City Stories have been presenting an evening of live “radio” theater derived from the recently uncovered archives of the ultra-obscure Tesla Broadcasting Company (1943-1945). It’s “pop archaeology” as performance art, or, more simply, a fun night of vintage entertainment! The shows of the TBC run…

$9 – $26

A Halloween Poetry House Show!

Pointy House 2930 SE Clay St, Portland, OR, United States

Slamlandia invites you to embrace the macabre and join us for our October house show - with a special holiday twist! Come out to Slamlandia’s All Hallows Eve Poetry Show. This house show will have a poetry open mic - to sign up bring out your spookiest work - poems about ghosts! vampires! zombies! financial aid debt! Don't have any scary poems of your own? Come read us your favorite piece by Poe! Lovecraft! Shelley! R.L. Stine! Do your best rendition of Werewolf Bar Mitzvah for us! Or better yet, bring us a ghost story! This house show will also have featured readings from both Avery Gadling and Bri G. Avery Gadling is a southern transplant whose accent was lost along the way here. They…

$5 – $10

Halloween ComicFest

Books with Pictures 1401 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United States

Books With Pictures celebrates the spooky season by doing their part to participate in Halloween ComicFest, a mini comics-fest full of free comics, costumes (of course), facepainting, and more!

Free

Eeek! It’s Halloween Comicfest at Cosmic Monkey Comics!

Cosmic Monkey Comics 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Halloween is coming up and we're giving away comics and candy. Costumes encouraged. Get them both while they last. https://www.halloweencomicfest.com/catalog

Free

Halloween Comic Fest 2019 at Things From Another World!

Things From Another World 2916 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Halloween Comic Fest is here! The spookiest comic day of the year! Participate in Halloween activities at all three Oregon Things From Another World locations. Celebrate the day by saving 20% off Halloween or horror-themed items and books. Show up in costume (no matter your age!) and get an extra 10% off! - KIDS COSTUME PRIZES - The first 20 kids who show up at each TFAW in costume will get a free re-usable Dark Horse bag (with Frozen, Minecraft, Toy Story, or Legend of Korra art) along with some free comics! Kids number 21 and up will get a free re-usable bag until we run out! - FREE HALLOWEEN COMIC FEST COMIC - Everyone who comes in can get a free Halloween Fest Comic…

Free

Halloween Sale!

Things From Another World 2916 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

The Halloween fun doesn't stop when Saturday is done! From Sunday until stores close on Halloween, we're offering a progressive sale on the spookiest in-stock items! OCT 27-28 20%OFF OCT 29-30 25%OFF OCT 31st 30% OFF

Free