Halloween

Sure, Halloween is all about the kiddos. Opening the front door to the neighborhood wee ones (yours or someone else's) dressed in their trick-or-treating finery is a sugar rush unto itself.

Everyone knows that vampires suck … your blood!!!! Seriously though, do you know the history behind modern vampire lore? These creatures of the night have been lurking around for a very long time, although the princes and princesses of darkness have taken on different guises and mythologies throughout the ages.

Remember the good old days when Halloween meant trick-or-treating and bobbing for apples? Well, technology has made All Hallow's Eve a whole lot scarier. From advanced video displays to motion-sensing devices, these Halloween-themed gadgets will turn your home into a truly terrifying house of horrors.

Halloween is coming, and we thought we'd get into the spirit of things by revisiting one of our favorite sets of spooky photos ever. These candid pics were taken of people passing through the Nightmares Fear Factory in Niagara Falls and they show the funny/scared/shocked faces we all really make when in a haunted house. Unlike the haunted houses we've been to, this one must actually be scary -- fa

Halloween is coming up, and we all know what that means: Christmas stuff starts showing up in stores any minute now. Also, on Halloween weekend, we'll be going to lots of haunted houses, haunted garages, haunted mazes, haunted cul-de-sacs and haunted, well, anything you can stick a light-up ghost on. But ...

If your Halloween costume isn't coming along exactly the way you planned, don't feel bad -- at least you aren't any of these horrible Halloween fails.

October is just around the corner, which means we've been thinking about what we're going to be for Halloween for the past three months! If you weren't graced with such an abundance of foresight, don't fear -- we're here to guide you.

There's a chill in the air, brandy is slowly edging out rum as the drink of choice, and the skin around our eyes is brutally chapped -- must be Autumn! And you know what that means -- time for some laughs courtesy of perennial favorite Nightmares Fear Factory, a haunted house in Niagara Falls with a hidden camera that takes pictures of people while they're having the crap scared out of them. Hilar

At Shocktoberfest in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania there is an attraction called the Naked and Scared Challenge, in which brave souls can go through a haunted house in the nude. Like most haunted houses, this one is dark, so you don't have to worry about people seeing if you're scared stiff (pun intended).

The funniest memes of the week are back, and boy do we have some of the funniest memes that ever meme'd for you. Between 'Intellectual Baby' and a late Halloween meme, this week is bound to get you laughing.

Here's a nice, friendly Halloween prank. (We promise there's no Slender Man involved.) A friendly group walked around with candy and a door with a sign on it (advising people to knock, we guess).

Jimmy "Man Who Hates Kids" Kimmel once again asked parents to tell their children that all of their Halloween candy had been eaten. And film it.

Allow us to introduce you to perhaps the coolest game ever... Pumpktris! Seriously, somebody created a playable Tetris game inside a jack-o-lantern. If you've got time, patience and brilliance on your side, you can too.

The best memes of the week are back, with whole new bunch for you. For all our readers stuck at home because of Hurricane Sandy, we know you need the entertainment. So look no further, we've got enough fresh memes to keep you laughing until the lights come back on (well, maybe not that long).