People might want to shy away from being the ax murderer. Gore is still seen as unacceptable. Adults are hoping to break the rules and do a little wish fulfillment.

Generally speaking, the whole point of adult masquerades is that you get to do something that you don't normally do.

There was a mystery here; there was a mystery in the black cats and walking skeletons and living scarecrows that we saw decorating school windows, mystery in the grinning gargoyles and jack-o-laterns on all the porches. I loved Halloween.

That 'I cannot tell a lie' has almost become a proverb. It's something that turns the patriarch of our country into a mythical figure.

In some parts of Europe, they'd look for bears.

Sin stared at him as he chewed, cream smeared across his mouth and smudged on the other side of it. It shouldn't have been possible to glare and eat like a child at the same time, but somehow Sin pulled it off.