IT'S HORTON'S ON PARADE THIS NOVEMBER WITH 5 BIG RETURNS!!!

It's a big week and a big November for Salem Lives fans as several beloved faces are returning to Salem for a unspecified run. "We are very pleased to have all of these beloved actors and actresses back for what we hope is an exciting and rewarding run," says HW/EP Tim Lowery. "We had these actors and actresses here in the summer for the funerals and the door is always open for them. Their presence will greatly benefit the stories we are telling and will give them more weight with our fans." Sources say that all these actors, with the exception of John Clarke, could remain on the canvas through the holidays. In Kale Browne's (Bill Horton) case, he will definitely be hanging around for awhile. "Bill will be here to control Laura and to help out his family," says Lowery. "The other returnees are here for Maggie (Suzanne Rogers) and may or may not stay. They will definitely remain through sweeps but, after that, we'll see. We love having them." As for the return of John Clarke's Mickey Horton, Lowery says that has been in the works for awhile. "We knew we wanted him to make an appearance but not necessarily as a ghost," says Lowery. "The way it is written the fans won't know if he is a ghost or just a vision of Maggie's as a result of her drinking. We like it that way because it's more realistic then having the ghost appear to her after all these months of him being dead. The scenes with him and Maggie are really beautiful so I know the fans will love it as it will give them a sense of closure. When he died, it was BANG and that was it. This will a final goodbye to Mickey that Maggie and the fans deserve to have." Clarke will appear on October 31 and November 1 while the other returnees will return on October 27, just as the Halloween Ball begins.

In other casting news, the role of Cal's psychiatrist has finally been cast after an extensive search and sources hint an announcement will be made tomarrow. Sources also say that the fans should also expect an announcement concerning a major recast of a popular character and that the situation will be very reminicient to the Robert Kelker-Kelly/Peter Reckell incident in 1995. "No comment," says Lowery.