Karen Schnaubelt This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. Haunted Attraction Magazine Online

   www.hauntedattraction.com/33/c - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/9/2004   Last Visited: 10/9/2004

   Karen Schnaubelt was a native Californian from the San Diego area, and the daughter of Star Trek icon Franz Joseph, author of the original Star Trek Technical Manual.
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   Karen and her friends created costumes for Halloween, Sci-Fi conventions and a Hawaiian Dance Team through high school. She graduated from San Diego State University with a post-graduate degree in Anthropology with an emphasis on Archeology, and was particularly interested in Egyptian and Mayan cultures. Karen founded the Fantasy Costumers' Guild in 1982 and organized the first Costume-Con in 1983. She was the editor/author of The Whole Costumers' Catalogue (currently out of print) and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Costumers' Guild. Like many of us, Karen started Haunting by turning a bedroom into a Haunted House and forcing friends and relatives to walk through it.
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   In 1986 the International Costumers' Guild (www.costume.org) absorbed both of the organizations founded by Karen and Ricky.
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   Combined, Karen and Ricky have won Best in Show at Costume-Con three times, and both are featured in the Thom Boswell book, The Costume Maker's Art (Lark Books, 1992).
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   In 1991 Karen and Ricky were married.
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   Either way, the house definitely has a history of unique inhabitants, the most recent being Karen and Ricky Dick, and a host of others who only seem to show their faces in October each year.
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   The residence has served as home and base of operations for Ricky and Karen since 1991.
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   "When your home is over 100 years old, looks like it is haunted anyway and already has an interesting early history, you have a great reason to decorate at Halloween," explains Karen.
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   That year, Ricky and Karen came up with Blood Rites, a competition piece for costume convention masquerades.
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   The piece depicted the wedding of vampyres Alexander and Anastasia (played by Ricky and Karen) and garnered them two Best in Show awards (Balticon, a regional convention and Costume-Con, an international convention) as well as a workmanship award for Best Design (also at Costume-Con).
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   The core characters, Gravely and Grizelda MacCabre (also played by Ricky and Karen), would become the focus of another part of the backstory, transform into trademark characters for Ricky and Karen, and create another defining costume/makeup style for Castle Blood.
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   The core characters, Gravely and Grizelda MacCabre (also played by Ricky and Karen), would become the focus of another part of the backstory, transform into trademark characters for Ricky and Karen, and create another defining costume/makeup style for Castle Blood.
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   In addition to consulting and producing their own show, Ricky and Karen have two other haunt-related business ventures under the Castle Blood name.
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   Ricky and Karen are frequent hosts and presenters at haunt and costume seminars.
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   Ricky has written a book, The Dollars and Sense of Small-Market Haunting, and Karen has published fourteen editions of The Whole Costumers' Catalogue (both books are currently out of print).
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   Recently, Ricky and Karen have gone back to their roots and the roots of Castle Blood by entering costume competitions again, with instant success on the regional and international levels.
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   Chris has assisted in the design of magic effects used as parts of the tour, and assists Karen in the management of front-of-house activities and business.