Nardone is famous for his weird and outright aggressive jack o' lanterns, and I have copied a couple of his ideas in the past, such as the "conjoined twins". This book includes the disgusting "snot-shooter pumpkin", a cool "tiki pumpkin", the baby inspired "full diaper pumpkin" and the "suburban nightmare pumpkin", in which you jam your pumpkin onto your gatepost so the neighbors can watch it rot and hate you. All the carvings include an equipment list and instructions and Nardone includes additional thoughts throughout. ( )

Doesn't quite reach the level of inspired madness I found in "Extreme Pumpkins I," but nevertheless I laughed out loud more than once and came away with some more wonderfully wicked ideas about how I shall frighten my local Trick-or-Treaters with my scary collection of carved gourds. ( )