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...Halloween, which means that the 3,000 to 5,000 haunted houses across the nation are creaking open their doors for business. For about $15 a person, hundreds of thousands of kids and adults willingly squeal and scream their way through attractions that are now so realistic that what once was cold spaghetti in a bowl is now, most certainly, brains...
Notice to all trick-or-treaters: It is hereby forbidden, on orders of the Propriety Police, to use the phrase "Happy Halloween!" today...
...Halloween, you see, is short for All Hallows' Eve, the night before All Saint's Day (Nov. 1), when Catholics pay homage to the souls of the faithful departed - the dead who've gone to heaven. (Nov. 2 is All Souls' Day, dedicated to the dead in Purgatory, doing time while their sins are cleansed.) It is not, as Satan proclaimed on South Park last week, a day for the devil. It's the day for those with the moral strength to reject the devil's seductions and escape eternal damnation. Nor is Halloween, in its religious sense, a time...
...good horror story, fear, madness, disease and sadism, to explore morals and the broad consequences of an individual's actions. So whether you like your scary stories to be sophisticated like Kirihito, traditional like Museum of Terror, or rude like Octopus Girl, you won't lack for material this Halloween...
...Rather, Halloween weekend at Harvard seemed to overshadow the University’s birthday this Saturday...