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How One Composer Created the Best Haunted-House Music Ever—Without Even Trying

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On Halloween, Death Should Be Celebrated

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I’m the Neighborhood Hero Who Doles Out Full-Sized Candy Bars on Halloween

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I Work at Spirit Halloween. It’s As Bloodcurdling As It Seems.

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Oct 28, 2023 11:00 AM

I Design Corn Mazes for a Living. Here’s the One That Really Keeps Me Up at Night.

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Mike Johnson, the Thinly Veiled MAGA Speaker

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I Put My Life on Hold to Grow the Largest Pumpkin in the World

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It’s Time to Prepare for Your Personal Zombie Apocalypse

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Let Us All Partake in Hailey Bieber’s Unexpected, Mildly Deranged Halloween Tradition

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Is Kiernan Shipka’s New Slasher Too Scary for You, Someone Who Just Thought She Was Adorable in Mad Men?

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Are Chemicals From Dead Bodies Oozing Into Tap Water?

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The Director of the Recreational Fear Lab Explains Why We Love to Be Scared

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Witches Run Amok

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What to Do About Halloween’s Real Threat to Kids

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The Woman Who Has Died Twice in Halloween Movies Speaks

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The Untold Story of “Spooky Scary Skeletons”

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The Spookiest Letters Ever Written to Dear Prudence

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Can Horror Movies Escape Their Anti-Feminist Origins?

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All Hail the Only Halloween Candy That’s Learned From Its Mistakes

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