Long before Halloween became a parade of costumes, candy and skeleton-covered front lawns, Martha Russell Orne was explaining how to throw the party. Imagine Halloween without miniature candy bars, elaborate costumes, inflatable lawn monsters or an entire store aisle devoted to plastic skeletons. ...
White Chocolate Ghost Pie Recipe
A creamy Halloween pie haunted by a crowd of little white chocolate ghosts. No orange frosting. No Halloween sprinkles. This White Chocolate Ghost Pie gets its spooky factor from an almost completely white palette: vanilla cookie crust, silky white chocolate filling and little white chocolate ...
The Great American Cemetery Road Trip
Forget haunted houses. This fall road trip takes us through four Southern cities where cemeteries are filled with art, architecture and some seriously good stories. There are road trips for barbecue, fall foliage and beaches. But what if we planned one around cemeteries? Before you picture a gloomy ...
The Secret Life of Cranberries
Those floating seas of red berries aren't quite what you think. Welcome to one of America's most unusual fall harvests. Every fall, something rather spectacular happens in parts of Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Fields appear to turn into enormous crimson lakes, farmers wade through thousands of ...
13 Halloween Movie Filming Locations You Can Visit in Real Life
Grab the keys, cue that piano music and maybe don't look in the rearview mirror. There are 13 movies in the Halloween franchise, which feels suspiciously perfect for a Halloween road trip. Better yet, Haddonfield, Illinois—the hometown Michael Myers has been terrorizing since 1978—is fictional. The ...