The Munsters—The Complete Series

12-DVD set (retail $69.98)Amazon



Just in time for Halloween, this gift set rounds up all 70 episodes of TV’s frightfully funny family of misfits from the show’s three-season prime-time run in the mid-’60s. In addition to the howling along to the half-hour hijinx of Herman Munster and his clan from 1313 Mockingbird Lane, you’ll also kick over a tombstone laughing with two full-length theatrical movies, 1966’s Munster, Go Home and The Munsters Revenge, which reunited the characters on the big screen in 1981.

—Neil Pond, American Profile





Dracula’s Heir

By Sam Stall

Hardcover, 88 pages (retail $24.95)Amazon



Vampires are in vogue again on TV and in the movies, and this interactive mystery puts you backtracking a “missing chapter” in the well-known tale of the most famous fictitious bloodsucker of them all. Eight removable clues, including a 1905 newspaper, a death certificate and a madman’s journal, all help lead you to the long-buried truth about the celebrated Count. Perfect bedtime reading for a dark, stormy night!

—Neil Pond, American Profile





Call Me Crazy

Lee Ann WomackCD (retail $13.98)Amazon



On her seventh CD and her first in three years, Lee Ann Womack pledges allegiance to traditional country music with a colorful song pallet that reaffirms her standing as one of the format’s most compelling stylists. You have trouble squeezing a drop of pop out these 12 new songs, four of which she co-wrote, including “Everything But Quits,” a dandy duet with fellow Texan George Strait, and “If These Walls Could Talk,” which elevates a cliché to a devastatingly powerful break-up ballad.

—Neil Pond, American Profile





LIFE Picture Puzzle

3-book box set ($24.95)



Put your observational powers to the test with these three collections of picture puzzles, side-by-side photographs identical in almost every way—except the handful of teeny differences that your eagle eyes must spot. Originally published by LIFE magazine, which ignited the picture-puzzle craze you see in various other magazines today, these delightfully addictive visual challenges, in varying levels of difficultly, will provide hours of enjoyment for all ages.

—Neil Pond, American Profile