[Ads-l] spooktacular

[Jonathan Lighter]

Older than I'd thought:

1897 Rochester [N.Y.]  Herald (Oct. 26) 5 [N]: A Halloween
Party...[with] "spooktacular" objects.

1897 Spokane Chronicle (Oct. 30) 3 [N]: Ghosts and witches and things
"spooktacular."

But hardly anything else before the '40s.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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