The inspiration for this font made its first appearance in the 1897 American Type Founders specimen book, under the name Lithotint. As the name suggests, the original was tinted gray (diagonal lines formed the body); this version is solid and spooky, too.

The font contains a few ghostly graphics, including ghosts at the bracket positions, a haunted house at the florin position, and a scary backdrop at the ASCII tilde and ASCII circumflex positions. More…

The Postscript and Truetype versions contain a complete Latin language character set (Unicode 1252); in addition, the Opentype version supports Unicode 1250 (Central European) languages as well.