Halloween Ghost Costumes for Adults

The detail on InCharacters costumes is always exquisite. They all look like they've been professionally made for a movie set, or some kind of reenactment event! And these latest offerings are no exception.

Their Corpse Count ghost costume for men, and Corpse Countess ghost costume for women, are bought separately, but fit together as a matching pair. Perfect for couples wishing to find Halloween outfits which complement each other.

You can work out your own back story. My imagination is buzzing on a theme of the Great Terror. How these pair were once part of the court of Louis XIV, but were dragged to the guillotine under the merciless gaze of Robespierre. What do you think?

And what about these other haunting couples coming right up?

These are brand new ghost costumes for couples for Halloween 2014. As you can tell by the quality and detail, this haunting outfit collection has been created by InCharacters.

Both are made from 100% polyester, therefore they are machine washable. What you see is what you get, give or take the make up and the shoes.

I don't know about you, but they're scaring the proverbial out of me!  It's not too bad here, but try going onto Amazon and clicking the zoom on either of them.

Especially at night.

You are looking at two separate costumes here.  The Ghost Adult Gown for ladies and the Ghostly Gent Plus for gentlemen.  These are very elaborate Halloween outfits, that are only for serious connoisseurs.

We are definitely in the higher end of the market here, and the prices reflect that. But so does the quality and the attention to detail.

The Ghostly Adult Gown has a Tulle petticoat. The dress fastens with a zipper at the back. The hat, wig and gloves are accessories that are included in the costume.  The Ghostly Gent Set has several parts: suit, dickie bow with scarf collar, gloves, hat and wig. 

These costumes are tattered for that extra spooky effect.  You will have to add your own make-up though!  They aren't the only styles in this amazing collection.

Both adult ghost outfits are made out of 100% polyester, so they are machine washable.

I'll admit that when I opened the page, I jumped about ten feet out of my seat at that Dead Bride Halloween costume. It's very effective, isn't it?  I mean, the Dead Groom one isn't bad either, but the bride model just nails it!

Could you do half as well with your cosmetics and expressions? Time to practice in the mirror!

In both cases, you are paying for all that you can see (excepting footwear and make up). Your costume will include all items of clothing, plus accessories such as the jewelery and bouquet.

Smiffy's have really gone to town with their ghost costumes for adults at Halloween. I'm not even joking. You could piece together a community from the pairings in their catalog! 

Imagine how amazing it would be, if you could convince a whole gang from your neighborhood to dress up accordingly. Your streets would be the spookiest in the nation, and those costumes could be used to recreate those scenes every, single year.

It should come as no surprise that Smiffy has named this range Ghost Town.  The adult ghost costumes begin with the Phantom Sheriff up above, which I think matches brilliantly with the ghostly Widow outfit.

Of course, you'll all have to work out what killed everyone in such a way that a whole town is now haunting the land upon which it stood. Was it some kind of curse? Or a pact made in life that none should pass on over to the other side?

Or maybe none of them know that they are dead!  Death could have come so suddenly (meteor strike or something) that every died simultaneously, arose to discover each other still there and assumed that they'd merely received a bump on the head. So they go on, haunting, never getting older, never thinking to ask why.

Maybe the whole Wild West town - because that is patently a theme and a date here - was built upon ancient sacred ground. This pair were disturbed from their own afterlife and stuck around to ensure that none would pass on over, until repentance had been enacted, or revenge had been wrought.

Or they forced the town-folk to haunt the place, in order to keep any generations that would follow from settling there. How better to maintain the sacredness of that soil, than to co-opt its desecrators into its protection.

Then again, this is your story, and we could be barking up the wrong tree here. Whatever the cause of the haunting of Ghost Town, the First Natives have been caught up in it too!

Might the issue have been a different spiritual power? Perhaps a deal with the devil inside an old time gambling game, or bar-room challenge.

Such things have been the stuff of folk-lore for generations!  Remember The Devil Went Down to Georgia? Or all of those stories about poker games, where a card is dropped, and someone bending to pick it up notices that their opponent has cloven hooves for feet?

Ghost Town could be haunted because its dead denizens are too afraid to pass on over to the other side, because they all know that Hell awaits them there.

Then again, it could have been some kind of desecration out there in the church itself. What manner of dark romance caused this phantom groom and his ghost bride to haunt the vicinity? What catastrophe doomed their wedding day?

At least we're piecing together events that happened on the day that the whole town became ghosts. There was a wedding. Did everyone attend? Is that why they were caught up in the disaster and haunting that followed?

So what might have occurred on that sacred ground? And what did this lot have to do with it?

The apparition of a Medieval knight in a Wild West ghost story? You're having a laugh aren't you?! But ok, my imagination is equal to this. Challenge accepted.

Just look at that ghostly undertaker. He's patently an evil sort, and he would be just the person to have been hanging around the churchyard before the wedding. Not raising suspicion, because his work takes them there regularly anyway.

But the bones that he was handling were not recent. They were the Earthly remains of a crusader knight, which the evil undertaker - for some nefarious reason - was using in a magical rite. Necromancy, based upon Mexican magic, presided over by his accomplice the Mexican bandit.

The laws of life and death were turned around!  The ritual backfired! Raising the ghost knight from his ancient bones and assaulting the undertaker and bandit. Their lives were lost in an instant, but the soul seeking specter could find no other life to suck away, trapped as it was amongst the gravestones.

That is until the whole town gathered for a wedding. Then the evil magic struck all at the service! The whole town now becoming ghosts alongside the pair who'd performed the rite. Trapping all upon this Earth.

So how did the undertaker get his hands on an old knight's bones, when they should be in Europe? Who would travel across the ocean, taking things that don't belong to them and selling them the highest bidder back on shore?

Thus we can put the whole story together.  The pirates plundered a precious cargo somewhere out in the seas of Europe and Asia.They must have thought that the casket continued gold or jewels, or else they wouldn't have taken it. But once it was on board, then something occurred to cause the pirates to become the dread crew of a ghost ship sailing directly towards an American port.

The ghost knight's bones had to be already cursed. He was doomed centuries before during some terrible incident out on the Crusades, or later. There are no end of historical moments when knights in shining armor sacked some town or village apparently undefended. Was an English soldier, out beyond the Pale, involved in an attack upon an old Irish lady's croft, only to discover too late that She was Morrighan?

We'll never know, but that the ghost ship brought the bones across the ocean to a Wild West town.

There may have been no magic ritual. A passing Mexican bandit recognized the evil power of the knight's remains (because he could, ok? His grandfather told him or something). He instructed the undertaker to bury them straight away on sacred ground. But there was a wedding in progress in the church, and anyway, it was too late.

Sorry, I was having way too much fun with this one. You work out your own Ghost Town story to explain away those Halloween ghost costumes for a group of friends. I'll get back to showing you what else is on offer.

The pictures are a little small, but that shouldn't detract from the fine detail and quality of these Halloween ghost costumes for couples.

You will receive most of what you see here, though neither ghostly outfit includes the wig nor shoes, and you'll have to create your own ghastly pallor from your personal cosmetic cache. Nevertheless, you'll get the big features here - hats, dress/suit, jacket/caplet, gloves/scarf and belt.

Do you have your story straight yet?  Such Halloween outfits cry out for one!

Ok, I admit it, I'm cheating a little here.  These two Gilded Age Halloween outfits aren't even by the same manufacturer, let alone part of the same set.

But don't they go well together!  They're quite competitively priced too.

There are few things in life (or death) spookier than an Edwardian era ghost bride.  She looks like she might have stepped off the Titanic!

Lady Nightshade's outfit is 100% polyester.  It includes all that you see, except for the flowers; namely the veil, lace choker, Gilded Age layered ghost dress with sheer overskirt and lacy inserts at the wrist.

The Men's Edwardian Ghost Costume is comprised of the tattered jacket, top hat and cravat. You will, unfortunately, have to match your own trousers and chain. 

(You'll only need the latter, if you're going for that Marley's ghost look from Dickens's A Christmas Carol.)

 Naturally, no costume includes the ghastly make-up.  That will be left to your own creative pan-stick talents.

Yes! Yes!  And a thousand times yes! What's not to love here? It's SLIMER! And he's inflatable! And you can wear him!

This Ghostbusters costume for Halloween depicts probably one of the most famous ghosts in cinematic history. A whole generation of us grew up watching Slimer, well, slime people. And now we can be Slimer. *checks* Oh! No slime in the accessories. Shame.

But you do get the jumpsuit body, head, sleeves and gloves, along with a battery-operated fan to inflate it. Yes, I want one. I'll provide my own slime.

Of course, when you consider dressing up as a ghost, it's not the elaborate costumes that spring to mind. 

Many people go for the sheet-with-eyes-cut-inside-it look.  Everyone would know precisely what you are!  This style is available too.