Better luck next year to the woman who will be handing out fat-shaming letters to overweight trick-or-treaters because America's Worst Neighbor officially resides in Norfolk, Virginia.

Halloween descended on New York like Hallowe'en upon a city Thursday, which meant the goons and goblins over at the Today show were up at dawn, peeling off their flaky reptile hides and stretching the skin of real people over their spikey, misshapen bodies. On top of that: a Halloween costume, as is appropriate for the day.

There are terrifying Halloween pranks and there are terrifying Halloween pranks.

Halloween digs itself out of the chilly autumn ground for a few weeks each year, too weird and primal for governments or religions to claim. It is an ancient pagan harvest festival and a leering plastic skeleton in a front-yard cemetery of styrofoam tombstones. It is candy and liquor, sex and death, and the only "moral lesson" of Halloween is a sneering threat from a child in the night: Give me mine or you'll get yours, mister. It is the only honest American holiday.

Recent controversies involving individuals putting on blackface for Halloween apparently failed to deter the football coaches at a San Diego high school from darkening their skin and dressing up as members of the Jamaican bobsled team made famous by the 1993 comedy sport flick Cool Runnings.

Vying for the title of "worst house on the block," one North Dakota woman has decided to forego apples and toothbrushes this Halloween in favor of a letter chiding parents of "moderately obese" trick-or-treaters for letting their kids eat candy.

A high school teacher in Akron, Ohio was placed on paid leave Monday for posting a racist Facebook rant about trick-or-treaters. Civil rights leaders are now calling for his firing.

Police in Michigan say a woman who was arrested last week for assaulting her live-in boyfriend happened to be wearing an "abusive wife" costume at the time.

With so many people who should definitely know better dressing up in blackface (or worse) for Halloween, someone launched a sadly necessary single-serving site to address the question of whether you should dress in blackface this Halloween.

My mom was cleaning out the attic a while ago, and she came up with the homemade cowboy costume I wore when I was five or six. The hat was long gone, but there was a little vest and a set of fuzzy fake-cowhide chaps. It fits my older son, who's in first grade and who didn't have any other Halloween costume lined up.

It's that time of the year again when we set a pumpkin on the dinner table and gather around with knives and hammers and ice picks in hand to watch YouTuber hickok45 demonstrate the latest foolproof methods for sending that foul gourd straight to Hell.

There’s been a lot of conversation this weekend about blackface and its relationship to Halloween costumes, especially in the context of this lovely Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman trio. For those who initially jumped to defend these partiers as “not racist” and "just kids," I’m sorry to break it to you, but thanks to some sleuthing from The Smoking Gun, we can indeed confirm that all three are morons and at least one is an unapologetic racist.

At dusk, Banksy revealed the newest piece in his month-long rampage of New York City's streets: a Grim Reaper in a scythe-powered bumper car, listlessly bobbing to Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper." The installation sits at the corner of Houston and Elizabeth Streets and, according to Banksy's site, will remain there through Sunday.

From ABC News to the Atlantic Wire to Wired.com, everyone's talking about the cool new Twitter trend—changing your name to a "spooky" version for Halloween. Here's how you can join the fun!

With Halloween just around the spooky, poorly lit corner, Crest decided to play a little trick on the littlest Halloweeners by switching their candy with terrible tasting "veggie-flavored treats."

“I’m not going to hurt kids,” said documentary filmmaker Joyce Draganosky to the New York Post earlier this week. Here are some of the seasonal items currently festooning Draganosky’s red brick home—the subject of its own dedicated photo galleries on both Gothamist and the Post's website—in the charming Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn: a baby doll lying on the ground with a fake-bloody knife through its forehead; a baby doll chained to a rocking chair with duct tape covering her mouth; a baby doll hung by its hands from a tree branch with a fake-bloody incision in its stomach (into this has been stuffed a smaller fake-bloody baby doll); a baby doll sealed in a jar filled with fake blood; a pumpkin surgeon (presumably unlicensed) looming over a fake-bloody gurney, on which rests baby doll covered in fake blood.

Photographer dad Royce Hutain is really into crafting homemade LED light suits for adults, so this year, for Halloween, he thought he'd make a special baby light suit for his 2-year-old daughter.

The sexy Halloween costume trend is certainly nothing new, but it does seem like a line has been crossed when companies start selling sexy pizza outfits.

Paralympian and motivational speaker Josh Sundquist—owner of last year's best Halloween costume—has outdone himself this year.

Every year around Halloween, Ellen sends her easily scared writer Amy to a haunted house, and it's always hilarious.