“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...

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For millions of folks, as soon as they hear the bubbling, boiling cauldron and that iconic opening line, I was working in the lab late one night, it’s Halloween. “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” ...

Welcome to Overthinking It, a new Esquire series in which editors and writers dig into a very, very specific moment in pop culture—putting our dogged journalistic and critical skills to use in the ...