This Day in Halloween: Bobby “Boris” Pickett -- co-writer and performer of "Monster Mash" -- is born in Georgetown, Texas in 1940. / Illustration by Morgan Bryson
Bobby “Boris” Pickett is born in Georgetown, Texas in 1940. The aspiring actor is known as a one-hit wonder for co-writing and providing the Boris Karloff impression in the 1962 Halloween novelty pop classic “Monster Mash.” Pickett died in 2007.
