If you hadn’t much time to set-up decorations around your home last year, it’s not too late to go all out this year. This season calls for a lot of decorating– that includes your home, your car, and even your lawn! There are so many things you could do to make your lawn a scary-looking …

After your Halloween party, you might chance upon a few unsightly things; one of which would be garbage scattered everywhere, a few broken vases, plates, glassware, here and there and if you’ve invited ‘crazy’ guests the night before, you might spot puke stains on your carpet. Yes, it would be a nightmare to see all …

Interesting article in the NY Times about what’s popular this year for Halloween costumes… Last year, Michael Jackson and Balloon Boy were among the top news or pop-culture-related Halloween costume choices; this year, perhaps, popular costumes will be Lady Gaga’s meat dress or, as this article describes, the gulf oil spill. Are you planning to …

The simplest and most effective homemade Halloween masks are often built on previously made mask forms.  Whether you want an eye mask that covers only your eyes and the bridge of your nose, a half mask covering your face from the hairline to just short of the tip of the nose, or a full face …

There are so many ways of making Halloween treats that no one article can cover them all.  The first resource you should find is a good cookbook or online site that specializes in party activities, foods and decorations.  However there are some classic treats that can be made without so much fuss. Many treats are …

The original traditions that Halloween grew from were intensely religious and meaningful.  Modern Halloween for most people is less so: many of us enjoy Halloween as a little holiday with hardly any religious significance.  Nothing more than a secular event, without even the powerful significance of the Fourth of July, or Thanksgiving.  Then why do …

Halloween is a complicated holiday, with several different possible meanings, depending on the background of the person celebrating.  The holiday as we know it comes from three primary roots: old Celtic pagan ritual, Catholic traditions, and American secular celebration.  With three such different sources it is no wonder that Halloween has no one meaning. For …

Halloween–for many people the best holiday of all.  Slinky cats, flittery bats, kids on the loose in the dark in costumes that would do a Goth proud, ghosts and magic and just a hint of mayhem held at bay…for a lot of us any other holiday looks a bit drab in comparison.  But where did …

Paul Venturella’s Halloween obsession began with a simple pumpkin on the porch about 15 years ago. It’s been a downward slide ever since for the Provo resident. He now spends much of the year preparing Halloween decorations and props for his yard with a 70-member Utah group called the Rocky Mountain Haunters (www.rockymountainhaunters.com). Venturella’s obsession …

Ooooh,, Ghost Hunters is going to do another live ghost investigation this Halloween.  It’s going to be a 7 hour long investigation! Brace yourself this Halloween when TAPS takes you on the ultimate ghost hunt. The team returns to the Fort Delaware scene of this season’s most jolting and revealing episode. Commonly referred to as …

Orange and black are already popping up on store shelves, as are scary stories of monsters, ghouls and … bunnies? That’s right, one of the cutest Halloween books this year is more hare-y than scary. Boo, Bunny! by Kathryn O. Galbraith and illustrated by Jeff Mack (Harcourt; 36 pages; $16; ages 3-7) follows two scared …

Popular Halloween costumes tend to come from characters in popular movies. And the most successful films right now are action hero movies. “The Dark Knight” has been the biggest blockbuster movie in years, grossing more than $522 million so far. So it’s no surprise that characters in “The Dark Knight” dominates the top 10 most …

Halloween costumes are what make Halloween a special scary night of horror and fun. Any child will wake up the next morning after Halloween night and the first question that will be on their mind, where’s my Halloween candy? And what kind of Halloween costume do I want to have next year? The ability to …

CEDAR GROVE, NJ –In recent years, Halloween has been bouncing back into the holiday limelight. In fact, memorabilia for this centuries-old holiday now rivals Christmas in popularity. Halloween decorations that dot front lawns and porches in the county have become frightfully sophisticated.  Electrified and inflatable, today’s monsters, ghosts and goblins soar through the air, light …