Dancing Mattress Productions: The Short Halloween

This year's Halloween episode is almost as much as a surprise to me as it is to you. The Goldstars e-mailed me the opening track out of the blue -- having appeared in the 2007 Halloween episode -- and that got the ball rolling for this half-hour special.

Here's what you'll hear today (right-click to download):

1. The Goldstars: "Halloween Hell"
2. Jonathan Coulton: "Re Your Brains"
3. Burning Babylon: "System A Vampire"
4. Black Velvet Elvis: "Hellhound on My Trail"
5. The Astronauts: "Vampire Strippers"
6. Tom Smith: "Cthulhu Fthagn"
7. Ken Kurland: "Halloween Spirits"
8. Electric Frankenstein: "Coolest Little Monster"
9. Mama's Dirty L'il Secret: "Vampires in the Sun"

(Total play time: 31:51)

Track 1 is from the digital-only album Tasty Instrumentals, 3 and 8 are courtesy of Magnatune, and everything else in today's show was found at Music Alley. The Jonathan Coulton song was previously featured in Mental Nomad Podcast 65 back in 2007.

A regularly scheduled Mental Nomad Podcast will be coming your way Wednesday, and Pod Across America returns for the second of three New York-themed episodes on Nov. 1.