Spirit Halloween is hoping to make lengthy hospital stays less scary for kids. As part of its long-running Spirit of Children fundraising campaign, the Egg Harbor Township-based seasonal retailer is ...

Last year around this time, I wrote about what seemed to be a decline in trick-or-treating in Atlanta. Although the ritual was thriving in some neighborhoods, it was on life support in others.

Halloween has gotten more intense over time, from horror enthusiasts decorating their homes with fake bloodstains to animatronic ghouls in costume stores scaring the daylights out of kids. Some ...

Leif Bishop, 9, and his father Jason Bishop are taken aback by a scary prop at Spirit Halloween’s entrance, which suddenly pulls up its mask to a scary sound. The seasonal store has opened at 1940 E.