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Growing up, I actually knew nothing about Halloween. In Senegal, we have nothing like Halloween, so I was a little confused my first year in America. ...

It is almost Halloween, so let’s go bats—vampire bats. Bats have long been associated with Halloween, being nocturnal creatures whose silent flight and eerie appearance make them all the more mysterious. And vampires are a Halloween staple. Fo...

Growing up, I always took particular glee when the end of September would roll around and the first magazines toting Halloween costumes would slip into my mother’s mailbox. Sitting in the front seat of her car while she picked through her bills and ...

I grew up in the Baptist Church and was exposed to a profoundly backwards type of evangelical ignorance that I credit with making me the warped adult I am today. One of the most confounding aspects was their hatred of Halloween....

There is absolutely nothing sexy about Vampires. There, I said it. America's terribly misinformed love affair with these supernatural suckers just does not make sense to me....

Halloween is to voluptuous women in school uniforms as Christmas is to pleasantly plump men in Santa Claus suits....

For most of our country’s 233-year history, our Presidents have left office and passed into obscurity....

What may be more horrifying than the very idea of sacrilige is the exploitation of it. Chick Publications, one of the better known Christian tract companies, has a knack for being hateful. As the characters representing ultimate evil are severely exaggera...

What could be better for Halloween than a little mystery? How about a cat-and-mouse game of trickery and skullduggery? That is what “Sleuth,” the current production at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, offers—a Halloween treat ful...

If you are looking for some haunting music for Halloween, here are some suggestions from more recent releases....

“La Boheme,” a French opera, was performed at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. An opera after Louis-Henri Murger’s “Scènes de la vie de bohème,” it was performed by the Europ...

Short reviews of other movies now playing in theaters....

“Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” mixes vampires, circus sideshow freaks, magic and Grand Guignol theater into a spooky comic entertainment, but what really makes the show is the delightful John C. Reilly as a vaudevillian vampi...

There is a revolution in horror movies currently going on. “Paranormal Activity” is in theaters right now, and it is doing horror differently....

 Created in 1994, “The Darkness” haunted house, located in downtown St. Louis near the Soulard Market, continues to terrify every year around the time of Halloween....

Depending upon personal taste and level of fearfulness, the scariness of a film can vary from one person to another. Here is my list of top ten scary movies of all time....

“Brutal Legend” is an eclectic mix of all genres of metal and rock, lovingly crafted into a living, breathing world....

Whether they are five or forty-five years old, almost everyone enjoys dressing up for Halloween. Here are the top five costumes for men, women and children....

Halloween is one of the most fun nights of the year. With the holiday being just a few days away, now is the time to check out the festivities both on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus and around St. Louis....