Pumpkin Lord

> "*Summon the Pumpkin Lord, Fear opens the door, Blood is gathered, Screams carry on the night wind, Souls are taken, Bones to bind, Roots dig deep and take hold, Here is the Pumpkin Lord He grows Halloween"*"
> ― The spell to summon the Pumpkin Lord
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## The Pumpkin Lord

### First Appearance

The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin (2021)

## Bio information

### Affiliation

Gramalkin the Summoner
Locasta
The Pumpkin Heads

## Physical Description

### Gender

Masculine

**The** **Pumpkin Lord‏‎** is a recurring *Halloween Horror Nights* character who was the icon of *Halloween Horror Nights 31* in 2022.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

The Pumpkin Lord is a powerful, pumpkin-like entity which acts as the "**Spirit of Halloween**". He is known to be assisted by supernatural followers such as the witches Gramalkin the Summoner and her sister, Locasta. The Pumpkin Lord is also known to be accompanied by animate scarecrows, goblins, and succubi. The Pumpkin Lord is able to be summoned by his followers through the gathering of human blood and fear.

#### Wicked Growth

At some point, possibly around 1987, the Halloween festivities of Carey, Ohio caused a supernatural being known as the *Pumpkin Lord*, the Spirit of Halloween, to grow in a lair somewhere below Carey's forests. The Pumpkin Lord was assisted in being summoned by witch followers such as Gramalkin the Summoner and Locasta, who assembled blood and fear for him. The activities of these villains appeared to cause death and terror in Carver Farms, where one person had pumpkins painfully growing out of them, where violent skeletons & scarecrows were present, and the words, "*Fear the Pumpkin Lord*" were scrawled on the wall.

Some who were exposed to these horrors fled through the covered bridge into the *Caine Cemetery* which had more monsters. Leaving into the Greenwood Forest, some encountered the lair of Gramalkin and the summoned Pumpkin Lord.

#### Horrors of Halloween

After being summoned, the Pumpkin Lord appeared with various henchmen for a Halloween festivity. Accompanying the Pumpkin Lord were the "Pumpkin Heads", the remains and spirits of 19th century children and teenagers who were murdered in Carey as part of a pumpkin-based ritual and rise as pumpkin-fused undead husks.

Another notable follower present was a New York trick 'r' treater who had been mutated into becoming murderous by the evil candy tycoon Major Sweets in 1954. Also present at this incident was vintage candy, candy bags, vintage halloween masks and a hatchet which appeared to be artifacts from Major Sweets' 1954 crime wrangled within the Pumpkin Lord's vines.

The vines of the Pumpkin Lord also contained items which may have connected him to various other incidents. Various witchcraft items may have been related to a sorceress who summoned demons from other dimensions, a tombstone and skeleton might have been related to spirits rising on Halloween in the *Nettlewoods Cemetery*, and a scarecrow along with a scarecrow's arm, corn, hay and a crow may have been tied to the animate scarecrows of an abandoned farm. This may have also related to a succubus, various scarecrows and witches present at the Pumpkin Lord's halloween.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Halloween Horror Nights 30

##### The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin

The Pumpkin Lord was main-antagonist of this haunted house.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 31

The Pumpkin Lord was the icon for this Halloween Horror Nights event.

##### Horrors of Halloween

The Pumpkin Lord was central character of this scarezone.

## Trivia

* It is possible that the entity being worshipped in the HHN 28 scarezone *Twisted Tradition* was the Pumpkin Lord. In the backstory for said Scarezone, a 19th century pumpkin-farmer on the woodland outskirts of Carey named Ernst Meier murdered several children in worship of an unknown entity, and placed their corpses in giant pumpkins to rise every Halloween as "Pumpkin Heads". The connection can be made given the connections to supernatural pumpkins in Carey, how several Pumpkin Heads accompanied the Pumpkin Lord in *Horrors of Halloween*, and how the theming of *Twisted Tradition* was similar to that of *The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin*.
* Items within the Pumpkin Lord's roots at Horrors of Halloween were easter-eggs related to the scarezones from that year: *Sweet Revenge, The Reaping, Scarecrow: Cursed Soil*, and *Graveyard: Deadly Unrest*.
* The Pumpkin Lord's Legion of Horror is unknown.

## External links

* *Pumpkin Lord on the Halloween Horror Nights wiki.*

## References

1. ↑ Possible year setting comes from "Meetz Meats pick-up 9/6/87" note on chalk board in Carver Farms