Nights of the Dead (NoTD) for 2011 is expected to run from October 13, 2011 through November 7, 2011. As with past years, there will be a Nights of the Dead crafting vendor in home crafting societies selling special recipe books as well as some house items and charged illusion items. This year, the vendor will also be selling one mount.

Recipes are crafted with special candies that are body drops from creepy mobs - see the chart at the bottom of the page for additional candy drop information.

Somewhere near the NoTD crafting vendor in each home city, Grabby Gigglegibber will be happy to convert your assorted candy drops into candy corn. This will make it easier for storage, as well as allow you to purchase the new mount (which requires 300 candy corn for purchase).

Celebrations of the Dead IV

The new recipe book for this year is Celebrations of the Dead IV. It contains recipes for: Torturous Flame, Bench of the Befallen, Broken Ark, Broken Canopic Jar, Crawling Captive, Creepy Cracked Pot, Creepy Giftbox, Dingy Giftbox, Doomed Ettin Skull, Doomed Froglok Skull, Freeblood Urn, Hanging Torturous Traps, Oversized Bone Barrier, Scratchy Hay Pile, Table of the Befallen, Chained Spider, Sinister Web Spider Banner, Creepy Candylabra, Oversized Candy Corn. (Note that at this time, the Scratchy Hay Pile has zero collision, is non-solid, and is invisible if you raise it up and look at it from below. It will get fixed to have an underside, but still no collision, but not until the next game update.)

Update directly from Kaitheel on the SOE forums: Also, the art team was able to add an underside to the "scratchy hay pile" house item. Unfortunately though, the change was not able to be done in time for NotD, nor will it include collision. The change will happen automatically, with the next Game Update (62).

Gallery-format images for these items will be along eventually.

Creepy Candylabra, Sinister Web Spider Banner, Oversized Bone Barrier

Bench of the Befallen

Broken Ark, Broken Canopic Jar

Oversized Candy Corn (default size)

Doomed Froglok Skull, Doomed Ettin Skull, Crawling Captive

Creepy Giftbox, Dingy Giftbox

Scratchy Hay Pile

Creepy Cracked Pot, Freeblood Urn

Table of the Befallen

Torturous Flame, Torturous Traps (wood background not included)

In addition to this new recipe book, the following recipes are making a return again this year.

Celebrations of the Dead III

These recipes were released in 2010 and will be available again this year:

Apple Harvest	Baneful Pokers	Banner of the Bitten	Blackhearted Chaise Lounge
Classic Pine Box	Creepy Covered Chair	Doomed Di'Zok Skull	Eerie Green Glass Candelabra
Jar of Spindly Black Legs	Jar of Wings and Scratches	Long Baneful Rug	Nights of the Dead Frosted Cookies
Petrified Bone Tile	Pumpkin Chaise Lounge	Ruby Red Glass Candelabra	Scary Candied Apples
Scary Shrouded Chair	Spiraling Spiderweb	Sticky Spiderweb	Swinging Bone Collection

Celebrations of the Dead II

These recipes were added in 2009 and are available for purchase again this year.

Baneful Arm of Decay	Baneful Bonds	Baneful Bone Arrangement	Baneful Bone Mound
Baneful Skull on a String	Baneful Bottle	Baneful Sarcophagus Lid	Blackhearted Bone Display
Blackhearted Stockade	Charred Banner	Demolished Sarcophagus	Femur Meal
Platter of Pestilence	Unsealed Stone Coffin	Vacant Sarcophagus	Wriggling Baneful Cocoon

Celebrations of the Dead

These recipes were added in 2008 and are available for purchase again this year.

Wall Shackles	Pumpkin Pie	Shackled Human Skeleton	Butcher Block
Alchemical Flasks	Sinister Pillows	Sinister Cauldron	Sinister Spider Eggs
Orb of Death	Sinister Chandelier	Sinister Tapestry	Sinister Sconce
Captive Audience	Sinister Candelabra	Shackled Elf Skeleton	Chained Blightbat

The above recipes from all four books require the Nights of the Dead candy drops (detailed below) and tier 2 common harvestables.

Quest Recipe - Special Mirrors

In addition, the haunted house quest in Loping Plains gives you a recipe as one of the choices - a level 10 (all crafting classes), 10-charge, heirloom recipe book: "Notes on special mirrors". This book allows you to make 10 combines (yield 2 on pristine) of the Vampiric Mirror and/or Wispy Vampiric Mirror, using tier 2 resources and the Nights of the Dead candy drops. (The Wispy version looks exactly like the original Vampiric Mirror, but it is not solid in the center, allowing folks to walk through it.)

Candy?

Mob Drops

*Centipede-types, etc in the sewers were mentioned

In addition, there are special triggered skeleton spawns glittering around the beach area in Nektulos Forest that will trigger a level-appropriate skeleton spawn when you click on them. These special triggered mobs have a 50% candy drop chance.