Originally Published: October, 2014 (Trigger Warning: Stuff) Like most people, I love Halloween. There's nothing like setting aside a day to mark the ascendance of fall and inclusively honor the religious, Celtic and pagan roots of All Hallow's Eve. Unlike most people, however, ...read more

And so it begins. Today, actress Ashley Benson of Pretty Little Liars had to remove an Instagram picture she'd posted of herself in what she said was a potential Halloween costume idea for this year. That idea: sexy Cecil the Lion. You'll remember Cecil was the African lion ...read more

"I can't write a parody of these people that even begins to hold a candle to the real thing." - Chez Pazienza referring to Salon.com Our very own Sam Doloncot has penned a highly useful essay on how to have a socially just, and cultural appropriation-free Halloween. But in ...read more

(Photo: @RitterZac) There was a time when the safety tips you heard around Halloween were meant to keep you from eating razor blade-stuffed apples or getting jumped while trick-or-treating. But those quaint little concerns have given way to entirely new terrors in the age of ...read more

Photo: Frank Franklin/AP If you live in New York City and you're looking for a truly terrifying "haunted house" to wander through for Halloween this year, you're not going to have to go very far. You won't have to go far in terms of distance, I mean. All you'll have to do is ...read more

This will be quick and appropriately profane. Seriously, enough of this shit. I know you're as tired of hearing me complain about the same things over and over again as I am of complaining about the same things over and over again. But at some point we have to at least ...read more

Halloween in America has traditionally meant ghosts, witches, skeletons, that kind of thing. This is what was supposed to be scary about it. Now, unfortunately, the scariest thing on Halloween are the assholes -- the assholes the holiday seems to either bring out of the ...read more

You can probably tell that I'm not the type of person who ever found Thriller to be the least bit scary, despite its often being hailed as the scariest video ever made, for some reason. If you'd locked me in a room with Michael Jackson overnight back in 1982, when the ...read more

I once put a couple of lobsters in the bathtub with the goal of surprising a girl I was dating. I had no idea that lobsters drown in fresh water. By the time she arrived, they had probably died a very slow, painful death (as opposed to the quick death of being dropped into a ...read more

I once defended Paris Hilton. It's kind of hard to believe even now, but amid the copious amounts of bile I spat out all over her during her pop culture heyday back in the mid-to-late-aughts, there was one time that I felt it might be a little unfair for me and everyone else ...read more

It's almost Halloween, which means two things: 1. Idiots dressing in all manner of inadvisable costumes and quickly becoming internet pariahs. (Hopefully more on that phenomenon tomorrow, given that I got almost all the way to the end of a piece I'd written on it for today ...read more