The first ever LibraryThing Halloween Haunt

UPDATE: The Haunt is now over!

We've also posted the solutions below each clue, over on the Halloween Haunt page. You can see how many candies you found, as well as how many other members found each one.

» Check out the solutions

A grand total of 1,575 members joined in the fun and found at least 1 candy.

1,265 members found at least 5 candies, and will have their accounts upgraded to lifetime memberships.

932 members found 12 or more candies, and have a chance at winning a LibraryThing t-shirt or stamp.

785 members found all 15 candies, and will be entered into a drawing for a set of LibraryThing/TinyCat coasters!

Prize winners will be drawn and announced shortly, so stay tuned! Profile badges and account upgrades will go out by Monday.

Two months in a row! What a great surprise!

>2 norabelle414: Surprise! Halloween is my personal absolute favorite, so I'm really happy we were able to make this happen. My hat's off to my colleague KJ, though, for doing the hard part—writing the clues!

Well, now I know what I'm gonna be doing all afternoon.

>4 PhaedraB: Exactly. 3 down, 12 to go.

Oh, how fun! I've got fourteen of them solved, but #7 is giving me trouble. I'll have to think on it more.

Nicely done! Easier to keep track of clues and answers. What a pleasure to play.

Can I assign a lifetime membership to another account, as I already have one?

7 and 10 are my trouble spots. I thought I had 10, but then the second stanza completely changed the subject! And I thought 7 was going to be the Draugr tag, but that was definitely not it, nor Norse mythology, not paranormal. I feel like it has to be Norse/Scandinavian specific.

>7 2wonderY: No problem! I'll have to do it manually on my end, so you'll just need to message me next week and tell me what account I should apply it to.

>8 nytbestsellers: On #7 You're close with the "Norse" part

>8 nytbestsellers:
For #10 Combine the two subjects you get from stanza 1 and 2

This is fun. I'm up to 10 now. (I just got the last two together; I knew the answers, but it took a while to figure out where exactly to look for them!)

Question: Is there a way to get the announcement banner back? I closed it when it first popped up, but now that I've started playing I wouldn't mind having that reminder back up there...

10/24 348pm Wow! Hasn't been up an hour yet and I've already gotten 2-4-5-8-11-13-14, seven in all. Much better than I could ever do as a Pirate! I doubt I'll get twelve, much less all fifteen, but in the past all I've been able to get is my Pirate's Badge.

358pm And now I just got Candy 9, bringing me to eight in all.

You wouldn't do a tagmash, would you? That would be way too hard to track down. But I feel like I've checked every Norse and Norwegian tag there is. And the CK places too.

>9 lorannen:
>13 nytbestsellers:

I'm stuck on 7 too and feel I have checked every author, series, tag, location...

>13 nytbestsellers: Good question I can confirm that it's not a tagmash. For the first part, you're looking for a word that's associated geographically with "Norse"

Managed nine swiftly, three which I'm sure are correct but I'm not hitting the right pages; candy badge assured, THANKS FOR THE FUN LT!

Fun! Always love these. I have 10 so far after my first run through. More after lunch.

>14 divinenanny: Same here! But I got 9 clues all on my own, which is a first for me, so I'm happy. I'll see if I can get the rest tomorrow with help.

>16 LolaWalser: Let us know if you want hints!

I've got 13 done! Still working on #5 and #15. So much fun!

Thanks, loranne and all at LT!

>13 nytbestsellers: Blah, I gave you the wrong hint in >15 lorannen:. Updated to be better.

Just saw this, and it took me by surprise! Gotta go to look for them. Thanks, and see you then!

Got 13 on my own, still working on 7 and 15. Lots of fun!

It’s "Lion King" with people *snerk*

Got fourteen of them on my own but need help with #10.

>23 NorthernStar: NorthernStar The quoted phrase is pivotal, if you're not familiar with kids' books.

>23 NorthernStar: For #7 it's a tag used on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and similar books

For #15 it's a classic Muppet book

Done! Got all but #15 without looking for hints, but I ended up having to do some googling.

I think this was record time for me to get them all, as well as record number solved without hints.

Thanks again!

Huh. I'm also stuck on #7 -- at first I thought it might be Scandi crime -- but figured that must be the "old category" referenced in the last line of the clue. So then I tried the "Nordic Noir" tag page, which got no results either. Then I clicked a whole bunch of related things and got nothing.

However, I solved the rest of them on my own, so am feeling pretty good about that! Maybe somebody can push me in the right direction for this last one.

>28 foggidawn: You're on the right track for #7. I went to a book in the genre and just clicked on tags until I found the one with the right wording

>21 lorannen: lorannen I feel like I have the word you're hinting at Nordic, but not whatever phrase it's part of. The word by itself is obviously not the answer.

>25 nytbestsellers:, >26 amanda4242:, Thanks, got 15.

>26 amanda4242:, regarding 7, I've looked at lots of tags, and still don't seem to have the right one.

>28 foggidawn:
You were on the right track with the Nordic Noir tag page, just think broader, geographically speaking

Finally got the last one, although I did use hints for the last two (7 and 15).

Thanks to the organizers, that was lots of fun!

OK, finally got 7, now I just have to figure out 10. I feel like I'm going to headdesk when I figure it out, but it's still escaping me.

That was fun. >:-) I'm at 2 left, 10 & 11.
10 I feel sure I must be within a whisker of, which is annoying!
11 I'm not going to get, I simply don't read enough of that sort of fiction to be able to come up with a name.

>34 nytbestsellers: For 10 I looked for a tag, then found a book under that tag that seemed to fit the clues

>35 Helenliz: for 11 try looking for a tag, and checking some of the authors of the first few entries

>32 divinenanny: divinenanny I was getting so confused until I found it. I already think of those two words as synonyms, not as one being a broader term than the other. That's why I was getting so confused. I couldn't think of a broader term other than Northern.

>24 amanda4242: For #10 The author's name is in the clue—I found the 2nd stanza more helpful than the first. Think of critters that eat mosquitos, you're looking for a work page

>38 nytbestsellers: Yeah, I botched the hint the first time around—I'm sorry! Sounds like you found it now?

Got 'em all!

This was fun. Thanks.

>32 divinenanny: Ahh, I finally got it. Basically, I should have combined the two things I tried at first (in >28 foggidawn: )

I feel like I KNOW what some of these clues are hinting at, but I must not be searching in the right places or for the right terms! For example, I know clue 6 is referring to Hogwarts, but checking that page and a bunch of similar pages (like Harry Potter series page and individual book pages) isn't helping! I have a similar problem with clues 12 and 14. As for clue 2, I really have no idea and am feeling very dense.

>43 christina_reads: For clue 6 try your first search idea under one of the common knowledge options.

>39 lorannen: Got it! Thanks!

>32 divinenanny: Thanks, would never got that specific term without this hint.

>44 Peace2: Thanks! I was able to get 6, 12, and 14...now to figure out the final clue!

>43 christina_reads: for clue 14 try searching tags with a word that comes to mind when reading the clue

for clue 2 this is a thing associated with the site and with cataloguing rather than something you can search for. If you would like a second clue try this If you look at the bottom of this page and click on the sixth option across you might find it there

>42 CarissaP: Basically the process is to (1) solve the riddle for each clue, then (2) search LibraryThing for that word or phrase. When you click on the correct page, a little banner at the top will notify you that you've found a candy. Some possible locations are work pages, author pages, and tag pages.

>48 Peace2: Thank you! The hints for clue 2 were super helpful. I had guessed barcode as a possible solution for the clue, but I really didn't know how to go about finding it on the site.

I've managed them all except clue 12 - I think I'm going around the edges of what the clue means but I don't seem to be hitting on the exact answer.

Woohoo! Got them all - mostly without assistance. A couple I guessed the right thing but wasn't in the bull's eye, so to speak. 6, 7 and 12 I had to skate around to find the exact page, others required some Google-fu.

Wow - this one was sooo much easier for me than some of the others. I got all but #7 without help, but I'm still stuck despite all of the good clues that everyone has shared. I'll keep plugging away on things that are like Nordic Noir, but more broad Scandinavianwould be more general, but I'm coming up with nothing. I'm trying to relate it to Halloween, but maybe I shouldn't?

Sorted! Thanks for the competition, it was great, even if challenging in places, when you’re not US-book centric.

>51 Peace2: This one took me a few minutes - I ended up searching for what I thought was the answer and then searching in the Bibliographic section for something besides works or tags. Once I clicked on the right thing to search, I had it

>52 Maddz: #12 Its a place, you'll have to look in CK

>53 rretzler: Robin, for #7, it was a tough one for me too. Think more broad for the geography, not necessarily the genre. Combine your 2 spoilers :)

>56 mahsdad: Thanks, Jeff. I just kept searching for things I had searched before and I got it - I swear I had tried that one before, but I guess not!

>57 rretzler: I was doing the same thing. It was the toughest one. Everything else was relatively easy, but really fun clues. Took me into new places in LT. I had never really explored the Common Knowledge area at all.

Finally. #10 hurt my brain.

It must be me, but I cant find any candycorns. Maybe I am searching wrong or dont know where to look. I wont give up....

Thank you to >55 rretzler: and >56 mahsdad: I've found my final one with your clues

I've got all but 5 and 7 so far. None of the hints for 7 have helped. I'm boggled.

Thank you!

>60 over.the.edge: Double-check the suggestion in at the bottom of >1 lorannen: under "If the Haunt isn't working for you". Are you using the old site design by any chance?

>62 gilroy: For #7 It's a tag, about a geographically-specific sub-genre

>65 lorannen: That's a repeat of many of the previous hints and no help. But looking at another clue, I got it!

But thanks to librarian wife, I did get clue 5.

>66 gilroy: Ah, sorry, I've been busy with emails and didn't keep up with the thread as well as I normally would. Glad you got it, thought!

I am happy with the eight candies I've earned thus far, which qualifies me for an account upgrade. Wuhoo! and thank you!

Found the last two #5 and #10 just in time, as it is past bedtime for me :-)
Thanks for an evening of fun!

I found #6 and saw the banner at the page, but on the haunt page it still shows as incomplete. CK Location: Tower of London
Nobody else is having this problem?

Whee! Am having a better time with this Halloween hunt than with the pirate one. But, I feel like I'm more knowledgeable about H'ween lore than pirate lore, anyway! I'm sure I'll be back later for hints... In the meantime, I'll see what I can do on my own (have 5 so far and am still only part-way through).

>70 paradoxosalpha: Might be a URL bug I thought we'd fix rearing its head again. That said #6 isn't Tower of London. That's #12. Let me know if you're still not being credited with it once you visit the right page?

I need help on #13. I feel like it has to do with Roald Dahl

I think #5 has to do something with the crucible

Got all 15 but I had to have 2 hints.

This was so much fun! #7 and #12 really had me chasing around the site, but with everyone's awesome tips, I got them! For #7, I used a broad geographic area related to the Norse countries, and added a phrase that made it a genre. I believe it was @mahsdad that gave me the hint that I used to figure it out! Really helpful! as for #12, I thought it was a cemetery- it isn't. Think of a super diverse city, and what relation "York" and "Edward" has to a specific country. I loved this one! Great for Halloween!

Can anyone give hints on 10, 11 and 14?? No clue whatsoever on what they could be.

>79 CarissaP: #11 She once did a famous Interview.

>79 CarissaP: #11 is the author page of a writer famous for a series of vampire novels. Her last name rhymes with the last word of the first line.

#14 is the tag page for a vampire's favorite food.

I'm stuck on 15. The hints had me looking for a Muppet book, but I don't have a clue beyond both Grover and Cookie Monster are blue.

>82 PhaedraB: You're close Don't focus on the color, focus on what they are. (what kind of muppets)

Thank you all for your hints! I wouldn't have been able to get all of the candies without them!
I hope LT does more of these. One for the holidays would be great. :)

Omg! Thank you! I loved the movie just never knew it had been a book.

Found six pretty quickly after I saw the announcement. Going to avoid reading any of the clues for awhile since we have a week. Gonna try hunting down a few more then come back and read all the messages to see what clues I can offer.

I got them all with a hint for #15. Thanks for an enjoyable evening!

>74 Ethan_Hoffman:you're on the right track, think about him and halloween

Got 12 on my own! The others (6, 7, 12) I'd never have gotten without hints...so thanks, all!

Incidentally, I'd somehow never heard of the CK wiki before tonight. How embarrassing!

To my eternal and utter astonishment (and, ok, a bit of Googling of key terms for a couple - but NOT reading this thread), I've got 14 candies.

Since I'm really really bad at crosswords ... yes, I'm amazed. And pleased. And enormously entertained. I've been enjoying this thoroughly!

Esp. once I realised that LT was trying to ensure we learnt about some of the less-known bits of LT - series and places were things I'd only really come across recently, for eg - so I made sure to look to the left on a search result.

#5 is the final, baffling rhyme. I'll see how long I can hold out before looking for clues in this thread ...

... OMG, I did it. But I had to stop focussing on the "John" aspect of it. Yes, I Googled; no, I didn't read this thread.

WOOHOO!! That was FUN. :)

Thanks LT for a fun day, I just got the last one - #5 - and thanks to everyone here for the helpful hints. :)

>83 mahsdad: Finally got it! Thanks very much.

14 on the first try! Though, I think I'll chalk it up to my fondness of Gothic literature and horror. I *did* get some help from Wikipedia on one. It just so happened that #15 was one of my favourites as a kid. ;)

#7 I'm still stuck on, but the hint I looked at tells me that my first impressions are on the right track.

>32 divinenanny:

I saw the right tag but didn't click on it! Got it now, thanks!

Looks like for number #10 I happened to make a lucky guess.

The helpful hints here for #7 actually threw me off, as I didn't need to think broader, but narrower. There are 5 Nordic countries, but only 3 in the region the clue wants.

>95 ErlendSkjelten:

I didn't even notice that. I was musing on how people can add different countries under the name depending on how technical they are about it, but I never thought that was what the two different words were for.

YAY! Found all 15! Only had to Google or use hints for four. I'll admit tho that #3 took me awhile. Brain kept sending me down the wrong path until it finally decided to say "Hey, try this."

Thanks to the team at LT for the work to set this up - much appreciated by me!

I got 11 on my own, and I had the answers for two more but had forgotten about CK places (I did try Local - no joy, of course). Those were 6 and 12. 7 had me stumped completely - I needed every single clue here to find it. >80 Taphophile13:'s clue got me 11, the last one. I had never heard of 10 (but found it with very little searching), and was unfamiliar with what you need to find for 5 - I googled the name triggered by the first line, which led me off in not quite the right direction, then googled the quote in the second-to-last and that got me aimed right.

Fun! as usual.

Yay! Got them all. 12 was the hardest and I knew the answer right away, but couldn’t figure out what to click so thanks for the hints

Yeah, some took a fair bit of clicking around, but many of these I lucked out and had the right knowledge to figure out the clue. I'm most impressed with myself for getting #12 right on the first try, though it took some clicking to find the right form. Same with (I think) #6.

#15 I got part-way through the clue and brain immediately jumped to the book and I was thinking "no...(way)." I liked the book so much in primary school that I brought it to my teacher to read to the class. I also read one of the first words with letters transposed ("everydoby") and blamed it on the character for not knowing proper words because it was Grover. Poor fellow.

#5 I have to wikipedia and then click around some more.

I found #11, but I did not understand why it was located in the page for her masterpiece and not in the author's page... or was I wrong?

>101 WeeTurtle: For #5 you need to pay a visit to Salem, MA

>103 rastaphrog:, >101 WeeTurtle: was thinking of #4 I am sure ;)

how does this work. would i see a candy on top i can click or do i need to post something that will record that I found a candy

>105 Fawaaz.Manuel:
If you visit the right page (the answer to the clue) a banner will appear on top, and it will be registered. If you then go back to the hunt page, the corresponding clue will be grayed out and you get a candy in the bar on the top of that page.

An answer can be a work, author, tag, CK location, and everything else, as long as it is a LibraryThing page.

thanks

LOVE THESE!!! Though, one always stumps me.....and this time it's #10. Conceptually I get what each stanza is alluding to, but can't find the thing that mashes those 2 things together?

ETA: I guess I did click on whatever #10 was, because it's showing as being found....but i completely missed whatever it was!!

I got the first three clues right off the bat, so I'm going to pace myself this run. Not going to peek at any clues at all this time! ;)
I'm also going to try to resist searching for more than three a day, but it'll be like trying to put a Rowntree's fruit pastille in your mouth without chewing it! :)

>108 pantsu: It was a book with a title composed of the two words (and two more)

I'm still stumped by #1 and #15, US kids books are unfamiliar territory. Any hints?

>111 MissWatson: For #1 Think of what happens to your skin when you're cold

For #15 The story's told by a blue Muppet

>112 rastaphrog: Thank you! It's so obvious when you get there, but I had never heard of the books.

>113 MissWatson: Das Geisterauto. ;)

Really frustrated with clue 1. Know the series but just can't seem to hit the correct page. Thanks for any help

115: #1 If you know the series, just go to the author's page and it's in their "related series" section on the right-hand side of the page. :)

108 pantsu: #10 This was the last one that I needed as well. If you have the keywords, you just have to combine them for a book title. Note that there are 2 things being reference in the first stanza, but you're not looking for the animal.

Help! I'm stuck on #3 and #7.

I think #3 has to do with ghosts but I need some other guidance and I have read all the clues for #7 and I think I am suppose to look at Scandinavian noir but nothing I am clicking on is helping. Anymore hints?

118: #3/#7 They're both Tag pages. You can type them into the search bar and then click "tags" under "bibliographic" on the left-hand side of the page.

Thanks Ape. I had actually gotten the #7 tag without realizing it gave me the candy. I now have all 15 candies. This was fun! Thanks LT!

Think I know clue 2 but when I click it just takes me to another site. Need help with 10 Thanks

>117 Ape: Thanks so much, that was exactly the clue I needed for #10! I kept combining the 2 animals and not getting anywhere, hehe

As for #7, I kept trying to short version, which is what we use in the UK - we never talk about the long version, which is where the candy is

Thanks for the fun and for the hints!
>121 tina1969: for #2 search in the Store, is an object useful for cataloguing and for #10
look for a title that combine the animals from the second stanza with the place of the first stanza

All found now. Thanks for the clues x

Yay, I got 12! Thanks for the hints, I was stumped on 6 and 7...was sure I had the right idea just couldn't hit on the exact wording!

I already have a lifetime too, so oh well, but it was fun!

Yay! I got them all!

Thanks everyone, for creating the hunt and helping put with the hints!

OK, I am feeling remarkably challenged by #6. I'm assuming that the location is rather obvious, but finding the right link is just not clicking for me, literally and figuratively! That's the only one I've got left and it's making me feel rather foolish lol

I'm stuck with #13... I have the feeling that it has to do with the movie, but can't find the right page. I already visited so many pages related to it, but don't seem to hit the right one. Help?

>127 tapestry100: that one was rather tricky for me as well; I had to click a number of things before I got the correct one. You are looking for a CK tag, and one of the longer ones, not the shortest one

>7 2wonderY:
>9 lorannen:
>125 LizzysLibrary: You can assign your achievement to another account, it seems, if you wish.

Weeturtle's hint helped with (15) a children's story I was unaware of, and Peace2 helped with (6) a school's CK location (hv never looked at left column before) and with more generic tags (3) so thanks for that! Eleven candies, now back to my reading...

>128 fee-diabolique: Try checking books, not movies

>129 shadrach_anki: Ha! I didn't have enough patience to keep clicking down. I just assumed I was doing it wrong. Thanks - I've got them all now!

>110 divinenanny: divinenanny I'm glad I had already found it on my own, since this clue would have driven me nuts, given that I thought stanza one was about cats.

Thank you! But I still don't seem to get it... I clicked on all the books I thought could be related to it, books in a series. I probably overlook the obvious here

>134 fee-diabolique: You may have the wrong author, then? The book in question is not part of a series; it is a standalone work.

Yes, I had the wrong author. I finally found it :) Thanks so much for saving me!

I just facepalmed over #1. I'd been stuck on that one till the very end and now I feel silly. Thank you for the clue.

Fun! Got all of them fairly easily though #6 and #7 required a lot of guesswork for the specific one (I knew the name of the place immediately for 6 but took a few tries to find the right listing, and for #7 likewise had to try several synonyms for each of the two words in the answer). And let me say my kid really enjoys the book that's the answer to #10, which made that one easier for me than it probably was for most.

This was so fun! I just got them all, and definitely appreciated some of the clues others left here.

Done with some help from here, 7 and 15 took a while to solve.

Got 12 of them on my own, then popped in here for help. Thanks for the spooky fun, LT!

>32 divinenanny: Phew, thank you! The trail finally got me to your clue and I managed to figure it out. YAY!! Seeing all the trouble so many others had with 7, I don't feel too bad. I knew it was a genre I was looking for, but it ended up being one I had never encountered before, so I was grateful for the help from everyone here!

>48 Peace2: Thank you for your help with 2!! I knew it had something to do with that theme and even tried some of the right words, but I kept trying tags and CK, not knowing that LT actually sold things like that.

>72 lorannen: Thanks for the help with 12. I never would have gotten that on my own. I was in the right country, just couldn't find the right location.

Weirdly, I got 15 the second I read it, as it been a favorite of mine since childhood. For those who want help with this, look at Golden Books.

>72 lorannen:

Never get credit for #2 = hope you can help.

Also, I clicked to get new design - is it now just beige?

thank you!

>129 shadrach_anki:

When I do a CK SEARCH, nothing comes up - how does this work?

Thank you.

>143 m.belljackson: You might want to put some things in spoiler tags; there are people who will read this thread that may not want clues right out in the open.

As for your question... I did a general site search from the bar at the top of the page, then went to the Common Knowledge section on the sidebar. It's the first thing that shows up there, but it also shows up if you click on the "Places" link underneath the CK list.

Success!!!
#2 was the last one. Thanks, >123 Luisali:! I knew what was being referenced but didn't think of looking in the store! It's a good reminder that we have that!

Thanks, Lorannen and KJ for all your work.

Huzzah! Done. Definitely needed help with #2. Thanks for the hint.

>143 m.belljackson: Please use spoiler tags so those who still want to hunt by following the clues without the answers being openly revealed here are able to do so. :) For 12, you must look for it specifically in Common Knowledge (CK) as a place. For 2, see message #48 for a good clue that will get you there.

Some fun stats while we're in the middle of things:

573 members who've found at least one candy

Candy #7 is proving the trickiest of the treats so far, with 231 members who've found it at this point. ETA: I'm not sure I'd have found it myself without some hints if I weren't running the Haunt!

Yeah! Finally got them all. Those were tricky.

I am very impressed with those who can do these so easily. I'm not very good at them but try my hand from time to time and am now up to 5. Maybe I can get close over the next week.

Wow, some of these were pretty difficult and others were very fun! Love #15 :)

I am still stumped on #10! I have all the rest now. Going to go back and look at all the clues in here for 10 as it's bugging me now that I can't figure it out lol

ETA
Got them now! I was way too hung up on #10 Ladies Astor and Lenox and what geograpic location and not just the general location.
Good old Google helped with that one!

Got them all! I needed a small hint on #7 and it still took some trial and error. #10 and #15 needed some googling.

This was a lot of fun. I got most of them on my own, but need some help with the clues for a few that were extra tricky.
I will now keep hope in my heart that we'll get another treasure hunt for Christmas/the new year.

>32 divinenanny: As a someone from the region in question, I feel like I need to point out that Scandinavian is a narrower geographical term that Nordic, not the other way around.

>144 shadrach_anki:

Sorry! I'd seen them both so often, I forgot they might still be spoilers. I'll be more careful.

Thanks.

>154 m.belljackson: You can always go back and edit to include the spoiler tags.

>153 PawsforThought: Let us know which ones you're stuck on, if you want any extra hints! While we do hope to do more of these treasure hunts in the future, I'm afraid this is likely to be our last one before 2019. We have a lot going on at holiday time, with SantaThing and the Card Exchange on top of business as usual.

>156 lorannen: I am no longer stuck! With some help from the fine people on this thread I managed to solve them all. I had problems with #7 (I tried multiple other genre names), #10, #12 (I had the right term but the search wouldn't let me get any hits at first) and #15 (never heard of it before). And my brain froze on #3 and #5, but I worked them out after a while.

And I totally get that you have tons to do around Christmas, but a girl can dream.

>133 nytbestsellers:
Apologies! That part was the one thing I was certain about in that clue, so I just assumed the same for others.... just goes to show!

>153 PawsforThought:
Apologies! Nordic-Norse is something I always equate... My company has a whole department in the Nordics and still I mess up. I'll fix my clue ;)

Yay, I am the 232nd member to find out #7! Now I need to work on #9... Any hint please?

I'm stuck on five of them

5. Arthur Miller? But I can't find the spot.
7. I thought it was Nordic Noir, but again, I mustn't be getting the right page.
10. cats and bats? bats and cats?
12. The Tower of London? Again drawing a blank on where to search.
15. Not a clue! *L*

>159 Yamanekotei: for #9 search for a famous and prolific U.S. author of horror, the creator of an evil clown.

>160 pith: You're really close on most of those!

5. Have you tried his author page?

7. You have one word right, and it is a two-word tag. The other word appears in some of the clues above...

10. The cats are a red herring. The important part of this clue is the author name in the next-to-last line.

12. The answer to this one is common knowledge -- or, should I say, Common Knowledge?

15. Searching the phrase in quotation marks may clear things up.

Hope my hints aren't too direct, but you really are on the right track.

>160 pith:: Here are my hints for you:

5. You are right. Go to his author page--easiest way is to find one of this books then click the link on link for his name.
7. You are REALLY close. Last part is "noir," but try a narrower word for the first word, like more specific to a country instead of an all-encompassing word that describes a region.
10. You are right with "bats." Go to the "bats" tag, then look at the books that show up for it. Should be one of the first ones listed.
12. You are right. Search "Tower of London", then look for it in the Common Knowledge section as a place.
15. Look for a Golden Book with the quoted phrase as a part of the title.

Thanks!

I did go to the page for 5 and the candy wasn't popping up. Except this last time it did. Ah, treasure hunts!

Common Knowledge was another glitchy one for me, but I finally got it to work.

Thanks for the clues, everyone!

>161 Luisali:

Thank you! I don’t read that genre so I couldn’t come up with the answer. I finally got them all.

Yay! All done! I love these!

I've got all the candies :) With a lot of help though, so thanks to everyone who provided a hint.

Found them all, with some help from above. #7 realllllllly ought to have used "Stockholm" in the clue rather than "Oslo", that sent me in all the wrong directions. And the worst was #6, which I never imagined was going to be that specific, whew.

>155 Taphophile13: Done.

>158 divinenanny: No apology needed. And at least you didn't get Sweden and Switzerland mixed up!

>170 PawsforThought:
I'm close enough that I do know that ;) Now what about those kangaroos in Austria eh? ;)

>168 Cecrow: For #6 I went with the link to the most-used version of that info on CK. Or did you mean that place in general?

lorannen #172:

However, when you do a CK search, it doesn't indicate which one is most-used! So I suspect most of us did what I did, and started with the simplest form of the name, and went toward the more specific ones.

And, done.

>173 lorax: Oh yes. You're right. I tried to clean up the CK for that place prior to the hunt, by updating records that had the simpler form to include the more specific. Unfortunately, one of them is a translation of a non-English CK entry, and the other hasn't come out of our Site search index just yet.

Got them all, FINALLY! #10 was definitely the most difficult for me. Thanks for all the fun LT, you people are the best!!!

Surprised myself by getting them all. That was fun!

Thanks for the numerous hints, I finally got #10. I managed to skirt around the target multiple times. When I got it was a major D'oh moment!

Still looking for #3 and #8, but I'll find those soon. Or so I hope.

Done. This was fun!

>179 EdwinKort:
#3: what entities are usually made of ectoplasm? Hidden under sheets? Can walk through walls?
#8: you're looking for a play. A popular Disney movie is often described as this play, but with lions. Google the quoted line, if you're unsure.

@101 Just when i typed this, I found #3 :)

And for #10, that play kept singing through my mind.

@1 If you want, you can give the life-time subscription to another person, as i already have one, from years long gone ;)

>179 EdwinKort: and @divinenanny , How did you find #1 ? When you 're not familiar with English/American middle grade (B-boeken) series?
I think the rhyming word is blues

>184 EMS_24: The rhyming word has feathers.

>185 Taphophile13: >187 foggidawn:, Thanks, that's related to cold skin too indeed!
Found... I digged too deep

>184 EMS_24: Actually, a large bird, starting with G is the rhyming word. I can see how this would be a tricky one for non-Americans.

Good grief #10 took me so long. I was very stuck as I couldn't work out the correct animal mentioned in stanza 2 (I haven't had coffee yet this morning)! Thanks for the helpful hints >160 pith:, >162 foggidawn: and >163 wordcauldron:!

Slowly, but surely, making my way through the list. Up to 8 now. Trying not to look at clues yet.

Update: I had a good stretch and now have Just two left. #3 and #6. I may have to look at clues. I've got ideas but just not finding anything.

Update 2: I played around with some LT pages only to notice that, at some point, I got #6. Just #3 left to go now!! Clearly something to do with ghosts, but what?.

I've got 9 candies so far! So fun! Thanks for the hunt. I'll try later to find more! :-)

I do not understand how to play. Will someone please give me exact instructions? Please.

Not using the old site,I don't think-

>192 YSBookRev: Correct. I'm not sure this will work on the ancient site. You'll be better off switching over to do this. (and everything else, to be fair)
Quick instructions: there are poems on the hunt page linked in the original post above. Each of those poems acts as a clue pointing you to a particular page on LT (a work page, tag page, author, character, place, etc.)
If you go to one of those pages you'll see a little message at the very top of the window that tells you that you've found one of the clues.
When you find the answer the clue on the hunt page will also show a green check mark next to it.

Find them all and win ultimate glory.

Woo hoo! Thanks to the hints here I somehow found #6 and #7 and now have all the candy! That's the first time I've ever gotten all the answers to one of these hunts. Thanks all; that was fun! :)

I found them all. For #3 and #6, my last two, I don't even recall which ones finally gave me the candy but it says I've got them all. The first time I've ever completed one of these things here.

That was fun! I found them all - and had more trouble with ones most everyone here seemed to find easy. I guess I need to use tags and CK more...

Way better than I've ever done before - yay! I got 9 without checking hints. I'm currently at 13, so only two left.

Have perused through about half the hints at this point, but am going to take a break and actually go do some reading! Will come back and see if I can figure out the last two with further hints tomorrow.

(There are probably still hints above that I haven't seen yet, but the two I'm missing are #13, and #15.)

I have to say, this was a great bunch of clues. I liked the variety of kinds of answers and of literature

>184 EMS_24:
I was a big fan of the Dutch version when I was an early teen. Now I mainly read English books and book blogs, and keep hearing about the main writer, and thus the English name of these books... #1 was one I got right away ;)

#10 was diabolical! I found all the other clues yesterday: 9 straight away on my own (a first for me!), 1 after a good night's sleep, 4 with help, but I tought I'd never get the last one! I did though, eventually, thanks to you lovely people... And now I want the book, even though I don't have and don't know any children of the right age for it!

Woo hoo! i finally found all the candies! Many thanks to everyone who left hints on this thread.

This was so much fun! I hate that I missed the treasure hunt. *pout*

Not to be demanding or anything, but I hope these both become annual occurences :-)

>197 LibraryCin: For #13 you're Looking for a book by an author who wrote about chocolate and peaches

For 15 A blue monster tells the tale with trepidation until it ends

>201 Sace: The Treasure Hunt for TLAP Day has been going on for a few years. The other hunts are new this year and hopefully will continue in the future.

Just for fun, I'm playing the game in hard mode. That is to say; no clues, and taking each 'candy' in order.
As I stated above >109 Sylak: it's not a race, so to make the fun last I'm limiting myself to three a day. :)
I have to say that clue '6' did stump me for a while, not because I didn't know the answer, but rather that I had trouble figuring out the sneaky way KJ wanted it used. I was so accustomed to only searching under the same old things 'tags' etc. but I'm on to you now! ;)

Speaking of old things, a curious 'glitch' happened to me this afternoon, as I clicked on the 'Come boast of your haul' hyperlink on the Halloween Hunt page, it took me to the last Pirate Day hunt rather than this page!
I hit the back button and tried again, and this time it worked correctly.
I have been unable to repeat the bug. This is one of the reasons that I dislike when people say that computers work on pure logic and don't make mistakes. :/

Thanks, >1 lorannen: that was an unexpected and fun diversion. Thanks to everyone who helped with clues - #2 had me stumped even although I knew the word, till >48 Peace2: helpfully pushed me in the right direction :)

Done :) #15 is one of my FAVORITES!!!

Finally got my last one! #7 was a doozy. That was fun!

My favorite holiday (and birthday!) - thanks for the fun birthday present LT!

Happy birthday 🎂 LisaMorr!

>163 wordcauldron: Thanks for the spoiler re clue number 12. I spent a long time getting nowhere until I read your clue. Got them all! :-)

I have just managed to amaze myself! I got all but #15 without hints. Usually, I find all the answers, but need hints for many of them. This was fun ... I apparently know more Halloween themed stuff than I even knew.

Thanks LT, this was fun!

Was it too late to join?

"This witching hour will continue for a whole week. You have until Thursday, Nov. 1st to wrap up your Trick-or-Treating."

See top post to this thread

Needing help on #3, #7, and #14, please. I know the keywords, but still cannot find them.

I know #7 has to do with Swedish crime/tags but that hasn't help me find it.

Thank you for some wonderful hints! I was stuck on a few - and upset about not being able to get #6, because it had to be that, didn't it?? Lots of fun - thank you!

Thanks for the help on #10. I was getting way to hung up on NYPL.

For 10... Mosquito hounds.

Seven has me in a fit as well. Thought it was Heaney's translation.

Wow- I got all 15 without using spoilers. Great Fun. Thanks.

>212 mellymel171328: Not at all! The Haunt continues until next Thursday!

>217 JasonRiedy: For #7 It's not a specific title. You're looking for a tag.

LOL. I was positive about the ectoplasm and "under the sheets" references, but nothing worked. Child of 80s movies. ;)

Yup, thank you! #12 was killing me. Definitely not Baltimore, even though I was to the right location recently.

>209 Yamanekotei: Thank you!

>214 TheCelticSelkie: It's a wider term than Swedish, including some nearby areas. And the second part of the term is a word meaning dark.

>29 amanda4242: I tried that--clicked every tag and still not the right answer.

>32 divinenanny: Thanks, I finally got the right tag for #7.

>48 Peace2: Thanks for that clue on #2! I knew the answer, just didn't know where to look for it.

With a few hints from here, and remembering that we're talking about titles, authors, tags, AND more, I was able to get all 15. So much fun!

>123 Luisali: Somehow I don't think Helping Hands: A Learning Guide for Parents and Teachers is the answer to #2! That's what I got when I tried to combine the clues you mentioned.

>204 Sylak: Update: Every so often the link to this page from the Halloween Hunt page leads me here https://www.librarything.com/topic/296449/ instead!
Has anyone else been finding this problem?

>228 Cariola: The first part is a place. If you google the names mentioned you should be able to figure out what kind of place. Also, the capitalized word in the middle of the 5th line should be a clue.
For the second stanza, consider the animal described in the first part and then think of another animal that rhymes with it and is appropriate for Halloween.
Do a search for the two words and the thing you're looking for will show up.

>229 Sylak: Hmm, that doesn't make any sense. Are you sure you're hitting the "boast of your haul" link, and not the one in the first paragraph, "Much like our Treasure Hunt..."?

With hints from this group and a good amount of thinking, I was able to find all 15. Thanks for the fun hunt!

Took FOREVER to get credited for #5. I must have landed on that page a dozen times without seeing a candy corn. Finally realized that clicking on the first result for that search takes you to https://www.librarything.com/author/lastnamefirstname-1-5210160, which looks identical to https://www.librarything.com/author/lastnamefirstname-1 but isn't.

Love this! Got 7 answers easily enough and know what I think are the answers to 3 more, just can't find the right page! Frustrating but fun!

That's the one I'm stuck on, too.

This was a lot of fun! Thanks LibraryThing!

Thanks so much for the Halloween fun - and thanks for those who help w/ clues!

Truly enjoyed playing! Sometimes I knew the answer and really needed the hints to get the treat! Brilliantly done! Thank you all!!

Thank you for all the work that went into creating Halloween Haunt....lots of fun. The many hints along the way were much appreciated too :)

>202 rastaphrog: Yay! Thank you! I must have been one of the very few stumped on #13, but your clue did it for me! Thank you! I've now got them all!

Thanks.Some if the tips on this one contradict each other.

Any hints for #3 (the tip above hasn't helped)and #14?

>241 TheCelticSelkie: Not sure I'm very good at giving hints, so this may or may not help, but for #3, you're looking for a tag.

I could actually give you the same hint for #14.

I already knew that...

How about some clues for #14 then please, besides just it is a tag ?

>44 Peace2: Peace2: Thank you! The answer to #6 was obvious, but I was driving myself nuts (and feeling very stupid) because I couldn't find the page I needed.

>244 TheCelticSelkie: Its a tag for the thing that the clue is describing. Just search for the fluid described and go to its tag page

Thanks for the fun, Loranne. And thanks for all the hints I found here to find my candies

>244 TheCelticSelkie:

It is Vampire’s favorite drink (or food?)
and look for a tag.

Finally, I got them all! The toughest and most frustrating was #7, I was sure I had the right words and clicked all over the place, then at last: changed a lower case letter to capital

7 nearly did me in but after I got it, everything else was fun. All in all this one was easier than last month's for me.

Meant to add above: great scavenger hunt. An excellent holiday tradition!

>203 rastaphrog: rastaphrog Thanks for the info! Obviously I'm not getting on LT enough if I've missed other hunts! I will rectify that in the future!

>231 lorannen: You know what, that makes more sense. More likely me not paying full attention. Mystery solved. ;)
Thanks Loranna.

Yippee! I got all 15 :) Thank you for the helpful hints, for the ones I wasn't quite sure of. What fun. I hope there are more hunts. Thanks LibraryThing, you rock!

#12 was incredibly difficult for me. First I kept thinking of a graveyard and tried that and all synonyms, I really thought that HAD TO BE the answer. Eventually I needed to consult the thread and figured it had to do with London, but no idea what to look for. I read hint after hint and *still* didn't get it. I literally had to see trillianiris' comment #163 where they *spell it out* to finally find it.

I have 5 so far.

Six down! This can be quite frustrating!

Not sure where to go -- I've been happily playing (I'm up to 8) but then somehow, I seem to be disconnected from the game, nothing appears on top -- before I had a banner all the time that I could click on to get back to the clues? It would shift to saying I had gotten the clue right, but now there's nothing. Did that go away? If it is a problem do I take it elsewhere?

Back to say, problem solved! I just wasn't getting any clues. I figure the first banner was just to get my attention and is gone now.

>163 wordcauldron: #7 and #12 were kicking my butt, but thanks to you, I finally found them. I could have sworn I checked the answer for #7 the other day, but I must have clicked all around it.

To the writer of the clues, I take my hat off to you. They were fun, clever and some were devilishly difficult. Thanks to the LT staff once again!

That was fun. Thank you LT staff for the enjoyable diversion.

Got them all except #2. I think I keep going around it but cannot locate. any advice/help much appreciated. PLEASE!!!

SORRY I meant:: GOT THEM ALL EXCEPT #6 I am thinking Harry Potter or "potion" like??? Any help much appreciated. I was looking in tags and CK but still cannot locate.

>262 JILLette.Martin: You're looking for a place. So what's the first place you think of when you read that clue?

In an hour I've gotten everything but the three.

I'm still somehow not clicking on the right ones for

#6 (which I know what it is, series and location, but I can't figure what to click on, and I've clicked on a lot so far), #7 (very baffled, and I've not got much lightbulb-help from the above ones), and #12.

#7 is (because it's hard!) Scandinavian Noir I have #4 left to do.

I must admit that a couple of years ago I'd have been stumped by #7 myself. But a friend got me into the genre by lending me his copy of Forbrydelsen, and I was reading an article only days ago on Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman (which is what I originally thought the answer might be), which had the genre name in the title of the article (on theconversation.com). The Tag of the genre name as I knew it 'Nordic _ _ _ _', didn't reveal the candy, but by revealing the full Tags list on The Snowman page on LT it came up under a different title (begining with 'S') and that was the right answer. Simple if you are in the know. Otherwise I probably would not have got it either. ;)

Just got 8, and 9 to get today (doing all the clues in order, just a few a day).

I'm finally done, thank you for this challenge!

#8 Alas, I knew that answer too well.
#9 R. Bachman ? ;)

Too easy. KJ was probably just feeling guilty after clue #7! :D

I'm having way too much fun. Can't wait for tomorrow (which is technically only 4hrs away where I am). ;)

Awesome hunt! Great way to spend a rainy Saturday. Thanks for all of the hints, everyone. I got ALL of the answers. Yeah!

>264 wanderlustlover: #6 If you know the location, do a search for it and click on "Common knowledge" in the left side column and the click "Places" and it'll be listed at the top (you might not even have to click "Places".

#12 is also a place, where a lot of people, including the ones mentioned in the stanza, were locked up. The name is a tall type of building in one of the most famous cities in the world (same country as #6)

Yay! I found them all! Thanks to some hints on here for a few of them.

I now know a few more things about LT!

That was too much fun and I learned a lot more ways to search using the Common Knowledge and tags. Thank you to all who contributed hints ... I would not have gotten #2, or 7 without you!

>210 vancouverdeb:
>255 Honigfrosch:
>259 MrsLee:

Glad I could help!! :D

Solved them all between my wife and I. Great fun LibraryThing and Lorannen; thank you!

Hints
#10 Think of the Place where Lady Astor and Lord Lenox are along with the Animal referenced.

#15 Not just "Another..." but the original Muppet Classic.

>268 Sylak: #9 is much more regal.

Guys can you help me with #3 and #11?

I had so much fun doing this! Thank you, LibraryThing team!

You hint for #10 really helped. Thank you!

If #1 is not Goose then what is it??

Lots of fun, thanks Loranne and LT ! Great fun!

>279 am19: You have the first half of the answer. Think about the word in the quotation marks to get the name of a series of children's books.

>276 am19: #3, think of a common trick-or-treat costume, or a story told around the campfire

#11 a female writer, well known for books in this genre, last name rhymes with "Nice"

Yes I was typing the same thing earlier but somehow it was not working, finally it worked.
Thank you :)

Can you help me with #3 and #11?

10 Clues
An author whos last name is Lies...
And a book about a winged animal that is supposed to be blind

Thank you :)
I got it

Re Assigning a lifetime membership to a different account (wrt 2wonderY: No problem! ), perhaps I could also ask for this? I have family that would so appreciate this 'prize' since I too have a lifetime membership.

Six, Seven, and Twelve. Please help!

Update- Got 7, now I just need 6 and 12.

Update- Thanks for helping with 6, now can you help with 12?

>275 CurrerBell: Thanks. Very kind of you, but I'm trying to do this hunt hint free. ;)
I actually got clue 9 on my own. R. Bachman was my attempt at giving a clue to others. Too obscure perhaps? Richard Bachman was this author's well known pen name (at least I thought it was well known).

Hope this helps!
#3-Remember that it can be a tag. Maybe something about things that are dead?
#11- Author- First name has to do with green gables, last name rhymes with nice.

@WiseGirl448 Yes I already got it, thank you :)

@WiseGirl448 #6 is linked to Harry Potter and it's under Places

Finally!-- figured out that the candy is on an associated page.

Can you help me with #4?

@SandyAMcPherson #3 is think of a common trick-or-treat costume, or a story told around the campfire, starting with G. The word starts with G and is listed under Tags

am19
Do you want Clues or just the answer to #4? Also please help with 12.

#4 Clue and Better Clue
Clue: Mary Shelley
Better Clue: Fra_ken_ste_n
Caution- Better Clue pretty much tells you the answer.

>281 aeclark: THANK YOU! I was about to ask for help on this one. I got goose but all I could come up with was a book from a series by Shannon Hale.

That was my last, and I've now got all fifteen (with some help on some). The only time I've ever completed one of these "hunts."

CurrerBell, I will tell you 15 in exchange for 12.

Stuck on 3, 6, 12 and 15.

Finally got them all! Thanks for the tips.

I got 14 without hints (but a little googling on a few) which I feel good about but #7 I could not get for love or money and several hints. I swear I tried the right combination of words before I read Sylak's hints (thank you!) but I must not have because when I did it finally came up. So all 15. Very fun! Thanks for putting it together. ;-)

So what is this "lifetime membership" about? I'm not sure how this all works since I'm still a "freemium" account.

#7 was the worst for me. I have to figure it out in stages.

Looks like #15 was a case of either knowing it right away or being stumped.

My old copy is pretty darn beater now, assuming I can track it down. I might need to go get a new one for my nephews to enjoy.

This was really fun! Thanks to those who put it up.

#10 got me for far too long. When it smacked me in the face I felt a little dumb. :-)

To every soul who provided hints here, thank you!!!! At last, with y'all's help, I got them all.

>305 WeeTurtle: So what is this "lifetime membership" about?

I signed up for a lifetime membership when I first joined - best bargain ever! That was 12 years ago!

Thank you!

#4 is the first horror novel ever, by a very young girl. The book is enjoying its 200th birthday this year. Ittttt'sssss aaaaaalliiivvveeee.

I had to google and rely on clues to find the children's books, hehe - but now I got them all!
Thanks so much for such a great time, again :)

OH OH!

And I learn a new thing. I didn't know there was a place in the search to click on "places" and just got both of them super fast, since I knew where they were but couldn't figure out how in the tags section at all.

THANK YOU! I'm all completed now.

How do I get a candy? I know a bunch of the clues. And yes, I'm using the new version.

What is a lifetime membership?

>313 lichre: Hi, You have already one, you can see that on your profile page.
That means that you don't have to pay for your LT-account each year.

#10 I got eventually; only after I went away for a few hours then came back to it (to clear my mind). I got both parts of the clue easily, but failed to put them together. Over thinking things again.
#11 I got right away, lest I was good at interviews helped.
#12 Likewise was a no brainer. Living just outside London may have helped me with some general knowledge, and an interest in England's history.

Thanks. I am new to LT. I did not know I was supposed to pay.

You have to do a search and click on the right link.

Does anybody need help? I have all 15 and can help with any of them.

>316 lichre: I did not know I was supposed to pay.
With a free account you can catalog up to 200 books (other than that there's no limitation on what a free account can do). For more than 200 books it's $10 per year, or $25 for lifetime. They often give away lifetime memberships in events like this.

Another fun hunt, Thank you LT. I thought it would take longer, but I found all 15 in less time that the pirate hunt. I thank everyone for the hints that even this retired librarian needed.

>316 lichre: It appears you already have a lifetime account so you can add as many books as you want. I believe that joining thru the mobile app automatically gives you a free lifetime account. Welcome to LT and I hope you enjoy the site.

This was fun as usual! I was stumped on 7, 10, & 12 but got them with helpful hints here.

This was a lot of fun! Thanks so much for the hints!

@JaynaP.B4 - you need to go to the page containing the answer. For eg, if you believe the answer to the clue is an author, then you search for that author's name and select their author page from the results.

If you've guessed correctly, then the bar at the top of the page will say "You have found n candies!" (or words to that effect).

Wheee! #7 was the only one I needed hints for, and that still took some clicking around.
I'm now thinking of buying a copy of Bats at the Library - it looks so cute!

>Taphophile13 I have enjoyed what I have done so far. This hunt was fun. I have received several ebooks through the Early Reader’s program.
So, if I am understanding correctly, before I had the Lifetime account, I would have had to pay once I added more tha 200 books to my catalog. It’s a good thing I have a lifetime account.:-)

Finally!!! I got all 15 with thanks for the help here and big thanks to LT and Loranne for fun and games!

I finished tonight and want to thank LT for doing this. I also want to thank all who posted the spoilers.

I tried to do as much as I could on my own. This is my first try at one of these and it took me a little bit to figure out what I was doing. Some of them I found but didn't know I had found them so kept looking until I figured it out. I didn't think I would finish them all and I had to have a little help from the hints here so thank you all so much! Honestly, I had the most difficult time with #8. I have never read one of his books. I am not really into the thriller style but I actually have some of his books on my TBR pile because I heard they are not thriller.
Anyway, this was fun. I learned a lot about the site and have added some more books to my TBR pile. It's always growing.

<297> Thanks, I was slow to catch on that I should look on tag pages!

>330 SandyAMcPherson: For some reason, for me, those pages are always the first ones I check!

<331> LibraryCin, now I know why I never got more than a couple of the pirate treasures! This is only the second time I've played the hunting game.

It has been a marvellous way to make time to explore the LT resource. I'm usually too preoccupied with writing reviews and looking at other people's libraries.

I am one of the few people who has never read Harry Potter, so I'm dumbfounded on #6 (the only one I have left to complete.) I'd appreciate someone spelling it out for me. lol ;)

I have never read Harry Potter, so I'd appreciate help on #6!

>333 CoverLoverBookReview: You can find everything you need in the common knowledge section of any/all of the Harry Potter books. The only special knowledge necessary was that all of those things are from Harry Potter, which you already figured out!

I must be missing something. :( I've searched and searched.

Well, I got 10 candies, mostly without clues, just want 2 more definite clues - I have searched and searched CLUES and tags and CK and ??? to no avail.

Help!

#2 Barcode = I've entered this A LOT, also Barcode Scanner and Printed Barcode.

#6 Hogwarts = I clicked on TAG and on each Harry book and the author.

#7 I've clicked with every country, plus Noir, then Iceland and Icelandic, even North Sea.

#10 No clue has helped.

#12 I searched for Tower of London in CK and have no idea where to find it.

>337 m.belljackson:, >336 CoverLoverBookReview: have you seen the clues in >172 lorannen: 173 and 175? . You look for the 'the head office' indeed.

Finally found #6! :)

Thank you for all the help. ;)

Thank you Paws for thought and all that helped. Great puzzle. Now I can go back to work after getting all 15.

>337 m.belljackson: #7 It's a name for three of the Nordic countries and then use the adjective, for how to find CK see >144 shadrach_anki:, #2 look in the store, #10 someone named the title of the book here yesterday

Still stuck on the ghosts of clue 3, anything in clue 5, nothing helping with clues 6 or 7 or 13, feeling dense here as well, none of the hints have gotten through yet.

>338 EMS_24: Yes, I had not clicked far enough = Thank You!

On to just ONE more...

>342 EMS_24:

Long ago, I clicked barcode in the store and got nothing.

I've entered Scandanavian Noir, Scandi Noir, and each separate country Noir...
the 3 countries should be Scandinavia, No? which I also entered.

WHO named a title - I checked all of today's and don't see one.

Geez.

Finally got them all. For #13 go to the author's page and find a work that fits the theme - also a plural of a word in the clue

>343 mmargironsidemcgean:

3: Have you tried looking at tag pages? If you do a search in the box at the upper right corner of your screen, then click "tags" on the left sidebar, that should help.

5: You're looking for the page of an author of a famous play. If you know what play, go to that page and then click on the author's name.

6: >335 norabelle414: gave good, specific instructions for finding this one. If you go to the page of any of the books in this series, look at the left sidebar under the cover image for "common knowledge" and you should be able to find it under places.

7: This is a two-word tag; both of the words have been used in hints above. The first word starts with an "S" and the second word starts with an "N".

13: You're looking for a children's book by a famous British children's author with an unusual name -- he wrote about a certain chocolate factory, and a very large peach. If you go to his page and look at the list of works he's written, you'll find one that best fits the Halloween theme.

>345 m.belljackson: Let's see....

#2 Barcode isn't what you are looking for in the store. You are looking for the product page of an item that is sold in the LibraryThing store that rhymes with rat.

#7 Did you type in 'Scandanavian Noir' or did you type in 'Scandinavian Noir' (one letter spelling difference)?

#10 The title of the book is in the spoiler tag of post #325 of this thread.

>348 shadrach_anki:

Even though I'd clicked before in The Store, today was the FIRST time the candy came up!

Title was from Yesterday - I didn't go back that far and will now...

Yep

Thank you, thank you, for helping me get 6,7, and 13! I’m going to try for 3 and 5. Much appreciated help, and a great hunt for everyone participating
Now I’m done, and couldn’t have done it without your hints!! That was a great challenge.

Such a fun and unexpected treat to find when I logged in today- thanks for the evening Halloween adventure!

>348 shadrach_anki:

Like some other LT people, it has taken a couple of times entering exactly the same information
to get the candy. I have no idea why this is and did update to New Design which did not help.

Thank you for YOUR Help! Now at 15!

Thank you! I searched for ages for that one!

Hello! Could I give another member my lifetime membership also?

Thanks!

>343 mmargironsidemcgean: >350 mmargironsidemcgean: #3 is really quite easy. It's probably the easiness that's causing you the trouble and you're looking for something a little more complicated. If you're looking for something about ghosts on LT, how do you find it?

Got 'em all. :)
Thanks KJ this was awesome!

I knw the answers to most, but I can’t figure out what to do to ‘collect ‘ the candies. What’s the trick?

Wow, great job! I'm jealous, I was proud of myself for finding 9 today!

>357 KelleyPhipps: If you find the correct page, you will see a banner at the top of the page stating that you found the candy.

>357 KelleyPhipps: I found if I go back to the page (which one I was doing) I would see I had the right answer. Or as >359 Yells: says there is a banner.

This is the first time I am doing one of these. I have read all the messages here, used all the spoilers and performed every search I can possibly think of but still cannot get #2, #5, #6, #7,#12 or #14. but I cannot figure out why I cannot solve these clues.

I just finished them all, but would not have completed this without many of the hints, managed to get 9 on my own and then got stumped, had the right ideas for most, just didn't take advantage of the entire site. Good way to have fun and learn my way around LibraryThing.

>361 YSBookRev: I took notes about the spoilers and then went through books. People posted hints and they were so helpful.

YSBookRev (#361):

2: What you're looking for rhymes with "bat", and is a physical item sold by LT.

5:This is a famous play often read by US high school students. Think "witch hunt".

6:What you're looking for here is the Common Knowledge "place" referenced. Pick the most verbose of the options.

7:Not really sure how to help out if all the many prior hints for this one haven't helped, sorry. They've all but spelled out the answer.

12:Think of a famous landmark associated with a bird that is separately associated with the word "Nevermore".

14:What do vampires want?

I finally got them all! Took some major googling and reading hints by the time I got #7 & 12; thanks for all who helped me. Now I think I'll go get some work done.

That was a really stimulating hunt! Thank you, Library Thing! Thank you all for the fantastic hints, as well!
Found all 15 candies! Will my account be upgraded now?
How will we be entered into the draw?

I loved this!! The hardest one for me was 12, and even with a bunch of Google searching I still needed hints :) This was super fun! Thanks all!!

Thank you so much for this. I had gotten 12 yesterday and your help gave me #6 & #2 (which I just noticed as I never saw the candy while clicking away...) but still not the others: 5, 7, and 14. truly I have tried crucible, arthur miller, salem, salem, ma, witches, witchcraft and on and on and on for #5 with no luck. For #7 I have tried everything as well Nordic, Norwegian, Scandinavia, crime fiction, mythology, vikings and every variant of such - even the tags associated with Girl with the dragon tattoo... and for #14 I have tried every variant of blood, dracula, vampires, etc. with no luck...
But I'm not going to give up.

Thank you.

>368 YSBookRev: Please use the spoiler tag when posting hints/the solutions you've tried! Instructions on how to do that are in >1 lorannen: We don't want to spoil the solutions for folks who are still hunting.

It sounds like you're getting the hints right, but you're not on the right types of pages.

For #5 You're all around this one. You need to find the author page for the writer of The Crucible

For #7 Start with a book in the genre in question. You're looking for a tag page.

For #14 You've already found the answer. This one is also a tag page

YSBookRev (#368):

You are trying the right words, so you must not be trying them in the right places.

For an author, try the author page. For the others, try the tag pages, and keep going for #7. You'll need to do a "Show all" on the tags to get the right one to show.

You guys are wonderful! This is so much fun! Thanks for all your effort and (in the usual vein of once is not enough) I hope we get to have another sometime soon!! :)

I'm going blind. can you give me a hint?

What?

I finally got #7 to complete the Haunt, thanks to all the hints! First time I've ever been able to gather more than one or two. I'll be looking forward to the next challenge. #10 was easy for me; I visited the Library at the University of Coimbra, Portugal last summer, where I learned how useful these creatures can be to libraries housing old books.

This was a lot of fun and helped point out some of the features of the site that I wasn't familiar with.

I really enjoyed it with the exception of number 7 (which I had to ask a friend for hints, then finally the answer and still don't see how I could ever have worked that out from the clue nor can I see a Halloween connection). As I never did figure it out (was finally given the answer), it's the only candy I didn't collect.

Thank you, thank you. Finally successful but very puzzled as to why it worked this time and not the previous 5 times I entered the same thing...? Is it where it is entered from?

This thread -- and a link to all it's answers -- has been continued over here:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/298103

Um, do we know when the accounts will be updated?

It looks like they're still being worked on, sorry for the wait—please follow the continued thread for updates (https://www.librarything.com/topic/298103).

This was so fun! Thank you!