Plastic skeletons
Corn syrup blood
Cotton spider webs
AMC Fear Fest
Signs at Target that say “Fright Done Right”
Neon colored hair spray
Spirit Halloween stores
Pumpkin beer
Pumpkin bread
Pumpkin anything
Trick ‘R Treat on blu-ray
Halloween on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray
All other horror movies
… but not really sci-fi
…OK, some sci-fi
Haunted attractions
Goodwill Halloween-specific billboards
Halloween-themed commercials on TV
Horror movie marathons on TV
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (even though I’ve never seen it)
Plastic severed body parts and organs in butcher wrap at Dollar Tree
The Camp Awesome Halloween party
Styrofoam gravestones
The colors orange, black, purple, and neon green
Light bulbs in the above colors
The sounds of horrified shrieking followed by laughter
John Zacherle, Boris Karloff, and Vincent Price
Tim Burton (pre-2000’s)
The Misfits
The Other Misfits that had Michale Graves instead of Danzig and didn’t cuss and played softcore metal but still absolutely nailed the mood of Halloween somehow
Candy everywhere
Weather getting colder but not too cold
The official beginning of the holiday season
Being covered up to the elbows in pumpkin innards
The smell of baking pumpkin seeds
My jaw literally being sore after a pumpkin seed chewing binge
Costume/pumpkin carving/decorating contests at work
People telling me I will obviously win all Halloween-related contests
People telling me, “you really like Halloween.”
Halloween Theme – John Carpenter
Going to a grocery/convenience/department store for the sole purpose of looking at their Halloween aisle
The “horror” section of used DVDs at Zia Records
Bad Horror Movie Night
Walking the streets in the early evening on Halloween night
Feeling like a kid again