A woman in France killed her child when she and 11 other members of her family jumped from their third-floor balcony because they thought they saw the devil. There had to be drugs involved in this, right?

[A full moon rises in Kansas City, Missouri, wearing its "sexy moon" Halloween costume. Photo via AP.]

Every year Tompkins Square Park hosts the annual Halloween Dog Parade. There's always some really great costumes, and this year was no different: Antoine Dodson, bedbugs and iPads were all represented. BuzzFeed editor Matt Stopera has some good ones.

Butchers agree that wearing a knockoff of Lady Gaga's meat dress for Halloween is not a good idea.

Antoine Dodson of "Bed Intruder Song" fame is releasing a halloween costume. (via)

If who Freddy Kruger is from A Nightmare on Elm Street, you know he's a mean dude who wears one bad ass glove. Here we find Freddy's main fashion accessory has many practical uses, and must be updated yearly.

Everyone's thinking—or at least should be thinking—about what they're going to dress up as for Halloween. Don't fall into the trap and wear one of these clichéd costumes that everyone else will have on. You can do better!

Need a Halloween costume, but don't want to dress any differently than your usual woefully stereotypical fauxhemian garb? American Apparel has you covered.

News flash: your cat does not want to be a bee for Halloween, he wants to be a cat. Aren't cats already Halloween enough? Have him sit on the couch as himself, and he will not try to jump off.

Here's a video of a few body paint-laden women crawling around creepily to the tone of eerie music and equally eerie noises. Is it a music video intro? A short film? Nope—apparently, it's the scariest event promo ever.

So, you want to be a slutty [inset costume idea here] for Halloween? Are you a hot chick or a burly man? No? Teletubby costumes are always a big, full coverage hit.

Halloween is a few weeks away, and you know what that means: holiday-themed commercials! This one for Snickers, which features a freaky woman in the grocery store who pushes the candy on an unsuspecting woman, is awesomely weird. Watch inside.

He mediates our most intimate relationships. His story will soon dominate movie theaters. And his attitude toward privacy can be downright terrifying. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the ultimate in spooky this Halloween — hence this free cut-out mask.

"Baby Lady Gaga Bunting Costume" including "1 Red baby vail [sic]": $39.99. The hell-baby nightmares you will inflict in everyone who sees your child: Priceless. Another picture after the jump.

The age of Gaga ubiquity is upon us. Official, licensed Lady Gaga costumes have arrived at Halloween stores, and include used soda can hair rollers and lots of fishnet. Prediction: Gaga prisoners outsell sexy prisoners this years.

It should be very easy to dress as your favorite Jersey Shore character. Just forget any pretensions to class, style or dignity and get yourself to edhardyshop.com. But if you're really lazy, go ahead and buy these official costumes.

It was a crime of infinite ridiculousness: Dressed in a sumo wrestling suit, Sandra Talbot assaulted her ex-girlfriend with her own girth and a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, vengeance for flirting with a man dressed as giant Snickers bar.

[Cars fly by as Dorothy and her Toto—not in Kansas anymore—try to catch a cab in the East Village on Halloween. Image via SuburbanSlice's Flickr]

BusinessWeek made Kevin Rose a Web 2.0 poster-boy when its cover proclaimed he had "made $60 million," in completely imaginary money. Three years later, that bubble long gone, his picture makes the perfect ironic Halloween costume.

"James Gandolfini celebrated Halloween like any indifferent dad, ripping eyes into a cheap Homer Simpson mask and wearing it for about ten minutes." [Buzzfeed]