I don't know what you guys are looking at, but TCM appears to be doing an extraordinarily bang-up job this October. All day goodies every Friday of the month, plus October 31 as well. The ones highlited in green are, as far as I remember, all TCM premieres (and this list doesn't even include the "regular" films that month with Boris, Bela, David Manners, Chris Lee, Jean Rogers -- on and on. Have a look see:

5 Friday
10:00 AM Festival of Shorts #11 (1998)
In The Tell-Tale Heart (1942) a man confesses to murder after being tormented by the sound of his victim's beating heart. BW-22 mins, , CC
10:30 AM Vampire, The (1957)
An experimental treatment turns a small-town doctor into a ravening vampire. Cast: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Toby. Dir: Paul Landres. BW-76 mins, TV-14
12:00 PM Return Of Dracula, The (1958)
A European vampire devastates a small western town. Cast: Francis Lederer, Norma Eberhardt, Ray Stricklyn. Dir: Paul Landres. BW-77 mins, TV-PG
1:30 PM Dead Men Walk (1943)
A small-town doctor's twin returns from the grave seeking vengeance. Cast: George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Dwight Frye. Dir: Sam Newfield. BW-63 mins, TV-PG
2:45 PM Vampire Bat, The (1933)
Villagers suspect the town simpleton of being a vampire. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Dir: Frank R. Strayer. BW-61 mins, TV-PG
4:00 PM Last Man On Earth, The (1964)
A deadly virus turns most of the world's population into blood-drinking ghouls. Cast: Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli. Dir: Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow. BW-87 mins, , Letterbox Format
5:30 PM My Son, the Vampire (1952)
An Irish cleaning woman battles a mad scientist and his killer robot. Cast: Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan. Dir: John Gilling. C-74 mins,
6:45 PM Return of the Vampire, The (1944)
A vampire terrorizes a British family during World War II. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch. Dir: Lew Landers. BW-69 mins, TV-PG
8:00 PM Curse of the Demon (1958)
An anthropologist investigates a devil worshipper who commands a deadly demon. Cast: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-82 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:45 PM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-73 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
11:00 PM I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
A nurse in the Caribbean resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love with the woman's husband. Cast: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-69 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
12:15 AM Leopard Man, The (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders. Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks. Dir: Jacques Tourneur. BW-66 mins, TV-PG, CC
10 Wednesday
6:15 AM Body Snatcher, The (1945)
To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber. Cast: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC
7:45 AM Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941)
A scientist's investigations into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner. Dir: Victor Fleming. BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
12 Friday
6:00 AM Wild, Wild Planet, The (1965)
Space amazons control the Earth by shrinking its leaders. Cast: Tony Russell, Lisa Gastoni, Franco Nero. Dir: Anthony Dawson. C-94 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
7:45 AM From The Earth To The Moon (1958)
Lifelong rivals collaborate on a 19th-century moon rocket. Cast: Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Henry Daniell. Dir: Byron Haskin. C-100 mins, TV-G, CC
9:30 AM Thing From Another World, The (1951)
The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space. Cast: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness. Dir: Christian Nyby. BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC, DVS
11:00 AM Watch the Skies! (2005)
This TCM original documentary explores the history of the science fiction genre beginning in the 1950s. Features interviews with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Ridley Scott. Dir: Richard Schickel. BW-56 mins, TV-PG, CC
12:00 PM Forbidden Planet (1956)
A group of space troopers investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen. Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. C-99 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format, DVS
2:00 PM Invisible Boy, The (1957)
A boy's robot playmate is taken over by aliens. Cast: Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Harold J. Stone. Dir: Herman Hoffman. BW-90 mins, TV-G, CC
3:30 PM 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
A renegade sea captain uses a pioneering submarine to force peace on the world. Cast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas. Dir: Richard Fleischer. C-127 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM Satan Bug, The (1965)
A mad millionaire bribes a scientist to steal a deadly virus. Cast: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis. Dir: John Sturges. C-115 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Homicidal (1961)
Cast: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich. Dir: William Castle. BW-87 mins,
9:30 PM Strait-Jacket (1964) Murder follows an axe murder home when she's released from a mental hospital. Cast: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, George Kennedy. Dir: William Castle. C-92 mins, TV-14
11:15 PM 13 Ghosts (1960)
A family inherits a house haunted by 13 ghosts and a living killer. Cast: Charles Herbert, Rosemary DeCamp, Marin Milner. Dir: William Castle. BW-82 mins, , Letterbox Format
12:45 AM Tingler, The (1959)
A scientist discovers an organism that lives on fear. Cast: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman. Dir: William Castle. C-82 mins, , Letterbox Format
19 Friday
6:00 AM Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962)
A scientist keeps his wife's severed head alive until he can find a new body for her. Cast: Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniel. Dir: Joseph Green. BW-70 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
7:30 AM Soul of a Monster, The (1944) A mysterious woman saves a doctor's life at the price of his soul. Cast: Rose Hobart, George Macready, Jeanne Bates. Dir: Will Jason. C-61 mins,
8:45 AM I Bury The Living (1958)
A cemetery keeper thinks he can mark people for death. Cast: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Herbert Anderson. Dir: Albert Band. BW-77 mins, TV-PG
10:15 AM Tomb Of Ligeia, The (1964)
A man's obsession with his dead wife leads to trouble for his new bride. Cast: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, Oliver Johnston. Dir: Roger Corman. C-82 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
11:45 AM Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971)
A madman uses the plagues of ancient Egypt to avenge his wife's death. Cast: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North. Dir: Robert Fuest. C-95 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
1:45 PM Dementia 13 (1963)
Members of an Irish family are being killed off by one of their own who wishes to inherit the family fortune. Cast: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton. Dir: Francis Ford Coppola. BW-75 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
3:00 PM Berserk (1967)
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders. Cast: Joan Crawford, Diana Dors, Ty Hardin. Dir: Jim O'Connolly. C-96 mins, TV-PG
4:45 PM Scream of Fear (1961)
A wheelchair-bound heiress doubts her sanity when she sees her dead father's body around the family estate. Cast: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd. Dir: Seth Holt. C-81 mins,
6:15 PM Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
A religious fanatic imprisons her late son's sinful fiancee. Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Stephanie Powers, Donald Sutherland. Dir: Silvio Narizzano. C-96 mins, TV-14
8:00 PM Mark Of The Vampire (1935)
Vampires seem to be connected to an unsolved murder. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-61 mins, TV-PG, CC
9:15 PM Freaks (1932)
A lady trapeze artist violates the code of the side show when she plots to murder her midget husband. Cast: Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-62 mins, TV-PG, CC
10:30 PM Devil Doll, The (1936)
A Devil's Island escapee shrinks murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC
12:00 AM London After Midnight (1927)
In this silent film, vampires are suspected in an unsolved murder. Cast: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-47 mins, TV-PG
1:00 AM Unknown, The (1927)
In this silent film, an escaped killer pretends to be a sideshow's armless wonder. Cast: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry. Dir: Tod Browning. BW-50 mins, TV-PG
21 Sunday
12:00 PM House Of Usher (1960)
A young man tries to rescue the woman he loves from her demonic brother. Cast: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey. Dir: Roger Corman. C-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 PM War Of The Worlds, The (1953)
A scientist on vacation stumbles upon a Martian invasion. Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne. Dir: George Pal. C-85 mins,
26 Friday

12:15 PM Voodoo Island (1957)
A tycoon hires an investigator to prove that voodoo doesn't exist. Cast: Boris Karloff, Beverly Tyler, Elisha Cook, Jr. Dir: Reginald Le Borg. BW-78 mins, TV-PG
1:45 PM Zombies On Broadway (1945)
Two bumbling press agents seek a real zombie for a nightclub opening. Cast: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Gordon Douglas. BW-68 mins, TV-PG
3:00 PM King Of The Zombies (1941)
A mad scientist raises the dead to fight for Hitler in World War II. Cast: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland. Dir: Jean Yarbrough. BW-67 mins, TV-PG
4:15 PM Revenge Of The Zombies (1943)
A Nazi scientist tries to raise an army of the dead to fight for Hitler. Cast: John Carradine, Gale Storm, Veda Ann Borg. Dir: Steve Sekeley. BW-61 mins, TV-PG
5:30 PM Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
Sailors try to salvage a sunken treasure guarded by zombie seamen. Cast: Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes, Morris Ankrum. Dir: Edward L. Cahn. BW-69 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
6:45 PM White Zombie (1932)
A zombie master menaces newlyweds on a Haitian plantation. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, John Harron. Dir: Victor Halperin. BW-67 mins, TV-PG
8:00 PM Bucket of Blood, A (1959)
A jealous Bohemian wannabe resorts to murder to perpetuate his new-found success as a sculptor. Cast: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone. Dir: Roger Corman. BW-65 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
9:15 PM Creature From the Haunted Sea (1961)
A killer blames a legendary sea monster for his deeds and is surprised when the real beast shows up. Cast: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne. Dir: Roger Corman. BW-59 mins, TV-PG
10:30 PM Pit And The Pendulum (1961)
A young man investigates his sister's death in a mysterious castle. Cast: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr. Dir: Roger Corman. C-80 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
12:00 AM Terror, The (1963)
A lost soldier discovers a mysterious beauty haunting a half-deserted castle. Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight. Dir: Roger Corman. C-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
2:00 AM Carnival of Souls (1962) After surviving a car crash, a church organist is haunted by the undead. Cast: Candace Hilligoss, Francis Feist, Sidney Berger. Dir: Herk Hervey. C-84 mins,
28 Sunday

12:15 AM Mr. Wu (1927)
In this silent film, a Chinese patriarch goes mad when his daughter falls for an Englishman. Cast: Lon Chaney, Louise Dresser, Anna May Wong. Dir: William Nigh. BW-91 mins, TV-PG
2:00 AM Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
Alien creatures turn plane crash survivors into vampires. Cast: Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Sato, Eizo Kitamura. Dir: Hajime Sato. C-84 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
3:30 AM Kwaidan (1964)
Four stories mix love and the supernatural in exotic settings. Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe. Dir: Masaki Kobayashi. C-161 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
31 Wednesday
6:00 AM Devil Bat, The (1940)
A mad scientist trains killer bats to respond to a special scent. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, David O'Brien. Dir: Jean Yarbrough. BW-68 mins, TV-PG
7:30 AM Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The (1964) An unearthed mummy returns to life to claim the reincarnation of his lost love. Cast: Teremce Morgan, Jeanne Roland, Fred Clark. Dir: Michael Carreras. C-80 mins, , CC, Letterbox Format
9:00 AM Bride of the Monster (1955)
A mad scientist fights to create a race of supermen. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Loretta King, Tor Johnson. Dir: Edward D. Wood, Jr. BW-69 mins, TV-PG
10:30 AM Revenge of Frankenstein, The (1958) After escaping execution, a mad scientist moves his experiments to a German hospital. Cast: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson. Dir: Terence Fisher. C-89 mins,
12:15 PM Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
A young gypsy girl turns into a wolf to destroy her enemies. Cast: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen. Dir: Henry Levin. BW-63 mins,
1:30 PM Werewolf, The (1956)
A scientific experiment turns an innocent man into a bloodthirsty monster. Cast: Steven Ritch, Don Megowan, Joyce Holden. Dir: Fred F. Sears. C-79 mins,
3:00 PM Mystery Of The Wax Museum, The (1933)
A disfigured sculptor turns murder victims into wax statues. Cast: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell. Dir: Michael Curtiz. C-77 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:30 PM House Of Usher (1960)
A young man tries to rescue the woman he loves from her demonic brother. Cast: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey. Dir: Roger Corman. C-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
6:00 PM Haunting, The (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 PM Ghoul, The (1933) An ancient Egyptian returns to punish those who violated his tomb. Cast: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger. Dir: T. Hayes Hunter. C-77 mins,
9:30 PM Invisible Ray, The (1936)
A scientist becomes contaminated resulting in the death of anything he touches. Cast: Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton. Dir: Lambert Hillyer. BW-79 mins, , CC
11:00 PM Body Snatcher, The (1945)
To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber. Cast: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-78 mins, TV-PG, CC
12:30 AM Old Dark House, The (1932)
A storm strands travelers in a house full of dangerous eccentrics. Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton. Dir: James Whale. BW-72 mins, TV-G
2:00 AM Die, Monster, Die ! (1965)
On a trip to meet his girlfriend's family, a young man uncovers deadly secrets. Cast: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson. Dir: Daniel Haller. C-79 mins, , Letterbox Format
3:30 AM Walking Dead, The (1936)
A framed man comes back from the dead to seek revenge. Cast: Boris Karloff, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-65 mins, TV-PG, CC
4:45 AM Isle Of The Dead (1945)
The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire. Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Helene Thimig. Dir: Mark Robson. BW-72 mins, TV-PG