It’s clear that the Halloween we know today is the bastardized cousin of the festivals of ancient times. Its meaning has been distorted to the point where nothing remains outside of consuming things.

Walmart also has a few blow-up Halloween inflatable haunted houses that range between $99.95 and $214, but hey! You can’t put a price tag on the fun. Kids will have a blast playing with it ...

The Man-Thing is Marvel's resident swamp monster. A monstrous creation forged during Marvel's experimentation with horror comics in the early 1970s, he stalks around his swamp, drawn towards ...

The musical actress, currently starring in "Redwood" on Broadway, adds that her co-star Kristen Bell would agree.

When you’re a kid, nothing says spooky like turning off the lights and bringing out the Ouija board. For decades, this mystifying oracle has purported to channel the dead by spelling out ...

Monster movies. Clever costumes. Spellbinding sweets. Get in the spooky spirit with CNN’s Halloween Quiz. Keep up with the news you need. Sign up for the 5 Things newsletter.

And yet despite the demise of its twin inspirations, “Monster Mash” managed to live on, to embed itself in the culture as a thing unto itself. Halloween comes every year, after all ...

Courtesy of Netflix Universal is bringing Stranger Things villain Vecna to Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando and Los Angeles. People will be able to enter the terrifying “upside down” world ...

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