Halloween News Archives

Halloween was more fun when I was a kid. Growing up in Michigan during the 1970s, I can tell you that times have really changed, and Halloween's celebration has changed with it.

From left, Molly Pate , Anna Pate and Jessica Demmjer of Atlanta were spending Halloween in Pooler with relatives Ken and Susie Pate at the First Baptist Church's Children's Fall Carnival and Trunk or Treat.

How to take your couch from chic to creepy Have you ever wondered how to decorate your home for a scary Halloween party? It can be relatively easy and cheap, too.

Ryan, 9, and Sadie, 6, Nysetvold talk about their favorite candy for a story to illustrate rating candy, taken on October 25, 2009 in Edmonton.

Halloween has come and gone, but what a celebration it was! I'd like to make a suggestion to the calendar people that Halloween always fall on a Friday or Saturday night.

Spider pops provide a versitile Halloween treat. How to cook a haunted big-cookie dessert Yield -- 16 to 20 servings 1 roll refrigerated sugar-cookie dough 4 containers vanilla pudding 2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs or 20 chocolate sandwich cookies with white filling, finely crushed Assorted whole vanilla wafers and graham crackers Black decorator ...

Halloween is here, but you still don't have a costume to wear for the annual costume party.

Now that the feverish voting has ended , we're happy to announce the winners of Wired's Halloween Costume Photo Contest.

At Jamie DeBree's house, grass skirts, palm trees and parrots pass for Halloween decorations.

Halloween is starting to depress me. This year, I was home alone with the bowl of candy, so it became my responsibility alone to supply with the demanded booty the various goblins and ghoulies and ghosties who came to the door.

Trick or treat -- or food? On Halloween that was the question many homes in Revelstoke were asked as a group of ten children were out looking for more than just candy.

The LahainaTown Action Committee will once again seek permits to hold Halloween events in Lahaina - an event that attracted up to 20,000 revelers in past years.

Wasn't it awesome that Halloween was on a Saturday this year? I hope you found yourself in a frightful or crazy ensemble, enjoying that alternate reality that is Oct 31. So, forget that yuletide cheer. Halloween is, hands down, the best day of the year. It totally kicks all of the other holidays’ asses....

A WEST Port shop owner targeted by Halloween vandals has slammed a police campaign aimed at cutting down on anti-social behaviour, writes Kenny Paterson.

Looking to get rid of unwanted Halloween candy? Two organizations have teamed up to send sweet care packages to soldiers overseas.

All around the world Halloween has been celebrated for years and years. Celebration festivities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes, carving pumpkins, and many others.

They were having a Halloween party in the right place at the right time. Virginia Beach police tell WAVY.com, some costumed revelers saved a robbery victim.

Supermarket shoppers got into the Halloween spirit more than last year according to Bracknell-based Waitrose.

The lady who answered gave all the kids a piece of candy, except for my nephew who was wearing a Green Bay Packer jacket over his costume. The lady told him she doesn't serve Packers....

By Catherine Bosley London - The modern-day ghouls and goblins of Halloween are steadily frightening off a British tradition that stretches back 400 years.

Kim Woodburn, the co-star of Channel Four's How Clean Is Your House, will be the official guest of honour at Cats Protection's Black Cat Day tomorrow Cat-loving Kim, who adopted her cat, Daisy from the charity, will officially open the event which takes place at the charity's National Cat Adoption Centre in Chelwood Gate from 10am until 4pm.

Know what goes well with candy corn? Apparently, chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

Surely everyone remembers my Obscure Halloween Costume Challenge from last year, when I posted each of my Halloween costumes from the last five years and offered "an official Nerd Club membership card" to whoever could correctly identify all five obscure movie/television characters as whom I'd dressed.

PEACHES GELDOF jets to America every Halloween because she has terrible memories of trick or treating back home in England.

Claire and Elise Bartley, 5 and 3, await their turn to pick treats after playing the beanbag toss at Sanbornton Recreation Department's Halloween Party Saturday.

A little rain on Halloween wasn't enough to keep thousands of people from taking to the streets of Georgetown.

Like many people, you may find yourself in early November sitting on piles of candy you don't think you should eat - no matter how much you desire it.

PARIS HILTON's Halloween celebrations were reportedly marred by a horrific row with boyfriend DOUG REINHARDT after the reality TV star tossed his girlfriend's cellphone out of their limousine.

A Halloween trick or treater in Ohio may have gotten a bigger treat than expected - a diamond ring.

For some kids in New Mexico, the hours spent trick or treating over the weekend are paying off.

An unusual Halloween charity race in which runners dress as gorillas has set a world record.

Toronto Police Service have issued a warning to parents after a razor blade was found in a Halloween goody bag Saturday.

Doctors in Cook County say they're hoping children across Illinois have healthy options this Halloween along with the bags of trick-or-treat candy they gathered Saturday.

When it comes to celebrating Halloween, it's film -- not music -- that is the popular art form that has best defined and shaped this most spooky of holidays.