Halloween

Do the risks associated with COVID-19 mean you have to give up Halloween? Experts say no — but certain precautions are recommended.

Halloween is filled with tricks and treats, but it's also filled with land mines of cultural appropriation and racist tropes. When does holiday fun turn into an offense for someone else?

Halloween each year brings a cauldron of unpleasantness for people of color — and a surge of questions to our inbox. To get through it all, we put together the official Code Switch Guide to Halloween.

The owner of one of San Antonio’s largest and oldest family-operated costume shops says the most popular Halloween costumes this year were inspired by…

The original Halloween score is one of the most enduring horror scores ever written. John Carpenter, who directed that movie and wrote its score, has now written the score for the film's 2018 sequel.

Critic Monica Castillo says this Halloween sequel takes as its true subject the lingering effects of the trauma Jamie Lee Curtis' character experienced in the 1978 original. (Also there's stabbing.)

Surging consumer confidence is spurring sales for Halloween. Retailers are forecasting an 8 percent increase in sales for costumes, candy and decorations. Those gains are strong given low inflation.

Haunted attractions can spend the money on great, gory props, but when it comes to being scary, nothing beats properly trained employees. At Cox Farms just outside of Washington, D.C., the preparation for the Fields of Fear includes scare training.

Halloween plays on our fears and fantasies, so it's no surprise that it might reveal interesting features of psychology. But you might be surprised by just what we can learn, says Tania Lombrozo.

Method acting isn't just for Hollywood. Employees at Halloween theme parks are also tapping emotional truths to deliver epic scares.