Forget the guessing-game “most popular costumes” lists that are really just someone’s opinion in disguise. This one is built entirely off what people are actually buying right now, ranked from the costume barely squeaking into the top 60 up to the one everyone seems to be grabbing first. Because it’s tied to live sales instead…
Halloween costume trends move in circles. Give it roughly twenty years and whatever your parents wore trick-or-treating starts showing up in party store aisles again, usually with a higher price tag attached. This year the comeback list leans hard into the decades between the 1960s and the 1990s, and a lot of it traces back…
Every fall the same argument happens on porches across the country. Do you go with the safe green wreath you already own, or actually commit to the season and hang something with color in it. We pulled nine that lean into fall without tipping into pumpkin-patch cliche, plus a couple that skip color entirely and…
Americans like to think of Halloween as theirs: the costumes, the candy, the inflatable skeletons. But the impulse behind it, setting aside dark autumn nights to face death and feed the dead, belongs to practically everyone. Around the world, late October and early November light up with festivals that make trick-or-treating look tame. Giant kites…
Plenty of people will tell you they’re not superstitious. Then they’ll knock on wood while saying it. Superstitions are the cockroaches of belief: ancient, unkillable, and thriving in modern buildings. Surveys regularly find that large shares of adults admit to at least one, and many buildings still quietly skip a 13th floor. The strange part…