Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 28/09/2025a short history of the word "spooktacular" books.google.com/ngrams/graph...books.google.comGoogle Books Ngram ViewerGoogle Ngrams: spooktacular, 1800-2022 242
Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 28/09/2025earliest available context, in the October 1987 edition of The Eastern Star 220
Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 28/09/2025But the real Patient Zero appears to be Walter Winchell's 1945 review of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit." 030
