Halloween 2026

psa We're up to 19%, or $3163.  I've had four Pete Geeks write about sending pipes and tins for the Texas Pipe Show table in a few weeks, including one from Germany. And speaking of Germany, check out the live auction to benefit the Memorial for a 1906 Catalog later in this post. Volker Cub, the last generation of the legendary family-owned Pfeiffer Tesch B&M shop in Hamburg, recently offered a sweet deal on the best 1906 catalog I've ever seen that has been put up as the first Charles Peterson Memorial PPN auction on eBay. If you have pipes--any pipes--and tins and smoker's accessories to donate to the auction, drop me a line at petegeek1896.org for the shipping address.   TIME TO GET SPOOKY by D. H. Billings   It's officially fall. The air is turning crisp, the colors are changing, night creeps in earlier and earlier with each passing day, pumpkin spice is turning basic white girls into ravenous werewolves, and... Christmas decorations are out‽ Aww HELL naw, let's rewind that a bit and get spooky first! Just for the record, I don't hate Christmas. In fact, I love it, with its quiet mystery, magic, and promise of rebirth - though I do hate how over-commercialized the holiday has become. I also adore this year's Christmas line from Peterson. It is startlingly perfect, and I honestly don't know how they could ever top it. But I do hold fast to the belief that each holiday has its own time and place in the calendar; celebrating one holiday before the one before it, to me at least, is like putting the alphabet out of order or ignoring PEMDAS when solving a mathematical equation. It's not the end of the world - but that doesn't make it right, either. And so... before Christmas, there is Halloween. There is the time to revel in the darkening of the world before relishing the twinkling lights that illuminate that darkness. Since 2021, Peterson has leaned into those shadows and produced a yearly Halloween line. Three of the previous five lines have incorporated the designs from the Dracula and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde lines, and two of the previous lines were original in their design. (D. H.'s Visual History of the Halloween Commemoratives) For the sixth iteration of the Halloween line, the fine folks at Peterson have combined the two concepts - taking design aspects from the Dracula line and turning them into something completely new. When asked about the this year's line, Glen Whelan told me: "Each year, our Halloween inspiration ties closely to the general theme of the holiday: spooky, dark, 'scary' characters or colour palettes associated mainly with the Holiday. This year we played on two of those themes: darkness and Dracula. We're offering an acrylic mount in the Dracula stem style sandwiched by jet black rustication and a black stem. We've also added something quite unusual for Peterson: a red coloured "P" on the stem." To be completely honest, this…