October is always my favorite month for TCM programming.
Their Star of the Month for October this year is Peter Cushing, which has a few choices not normally on TCM in October. Also it looks like their Universal Monsters programming is a bit slim this year, but all of that is on Peacock, NBC/Universal's streaming service, so I am not sure if NBC/Universal is makingthem exclusive to their service and that is why TCM doesn't have much this year.
Here is TCM's schedule of genre fare for October...
10/2
8:00 PM Dracula (1931)
11:00 PM House on Haunted Hill (1958)
12:30 AM Haunting, The (1963)
10/9
8:00 PM Ghoul, The (1933)
9:30 PM Black Sleep, The (1956)
11:00 PM Mark of the Vampire (1935)
12:15 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968)
10/12
6:00 AM Reptile, The (1966)
7:45 AM Killer Shrews, The (1959)
9:00 AM King Kong (1933)
11:00 AM Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953)
12:30 PM Godzilla (1954)
2:00 PM Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
3:30 PM Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
4:45 PM Green Slime, The (1969)
6:30 PM Night of the Lepus (1972)
and that evening a Cushing spotlight:
8:00 PM Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
9:30 PM Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
11:00 PM Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)
12:30 AM She (1965)
(I am especially excited for these 4 films, as I haven't seen any of them in full in a very long time....)
10/14
2:30 PM Thirteenth Chair, The (1929)
4:00 PM Freaks (1932)
5:15 PM Mark of the Vampire (1935)
6:30 PM Devil-Doll, The (1936)
10/16
9:15 AM Village of the Damned (1960)
10:45 AM Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962)
12:15 PM Carnival of Souls (1962)
1:45 PM Dementia 13 (1963)
3:15 PM Raven, The (1963)
4:45 PM Spider Baby (1964)
6:15 PM Nanny, The (1965)
8:00 PM Dead of Night (1945)
10:00 PM Twice-Told Tales (1963)
12:15 AM Black Sabbath (1963)
10/17
1:45 AM Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1966)
3:45 AM House of Dark Shadows (1970)
10/19 has more Cushing
8:00 PM Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)
9:30 PM Horror of Dracula (1958)
11:15 PM Mummy, The (1959)
1:00 AM Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
2:45 AM Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
4:30 AM Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1970)
10/22
11:30 PM Mystery Of The Wax Museum, The (1933)
10/23
8:00 PM Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
9:30 PM Blob, The (1958)
11:15 PM Tingler, The (1959)
12:45 AM Thing From Another World, The (1951)
10/24
1:45 AM Werewolf, The (1956)
3:15 AM Howling, The (1981)
5:00 AM Mummy, The (1932)
10/26 another round of Cushing
8:00 PM Nothing But the Night (1972)
9:45 PM Madhouse (1974)
11:30 PM From Beyond the Grave (1973)
1:30 AM Scream and Scream Again (1970)
3:15 AM Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1973)
4:45 AM Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
10/29
2:15 PM Night Of Dark Shadows (1971)
4:00 PM Indestructible Man (1956)
5:15 PM From Hell It Came (1957)
6:30 PM Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
10/30
6:30 AM Doctor X (1932)
8:00 AM Mask Of Fu Manchu, The (1932) I need to make sure I catch this one too
9:30 AM Most Dangerous Game, The (1932)
10:45 AM Island of Lost Souls (1932)
12:00 PM White Zombie (1932)
1:30 PM Vampire Bat, The (1933)
2:45 PM Mystery Of The Wax Museum, The (1933)
4:15 PM Mad Love (1935)
5:30 PM Walking Dead, The (1936)
6:45 PM Return of Doctor X, The (1939)
8:00 PM Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake, The (1959)
9:15 PM Eye of the Devil (1966)
11:00 PM Devil Rides Out, The (1968)
12:45 AM Wicker Man, The (1974)
10/31
6:00 AM Freaks (1932)
7:15 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
9:00 AM House of Wax (1953)
10:45 AM Children of the Damned (1964)
12:30 PM Bad Seed, The (1956)
2:45 PM Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)
4:45 PM Wolf Man, The (1941)
6:00 PM Haunting, The (1963)
10:00 PM Them! (1954)
12:00 AM Seventh Victim, The (1943)
1:30 AM I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
3:00 AM Body Snatcher, The (1945)
4:30 AM Leopard Man, The (1943)
-M