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Halloween

Photo: Two Jack-o-laterns lit from within.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: October 31 to November 3

October 30, 2024

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Watch Now

BU Physics Pumpkin Drop: A Smashing Success

October 30, 2024

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Why Is Halloween Spending Growing When Americans Are Supposedly Cutting Back?

October 28, 2024

Photo: A smokey picture of smiling Jack-o-lantern on a hard surface with a dark background.

Style

10 Costume Ideas for Halloween 2024

October 18, 2024

Photo: A smokey picture of smiling Jack-o-lantern on a hard surface with a dark background.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: October 26 to 29

October 25, 2023

This is a stock photo of three jack-o-lanterns sitting on a dark rocky surface with a light orange background. It is dimly lit with fairy lights.

Halloween

10 Costume Ideas for Halloween 2023

October 24, 2023

Books

Meet Hatchet Girls, Just in Time for Halloween

October 16, 2023

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Halloween

Video: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups? Skittles? Snickers? What’s Your Favorite Halloween Candy?

October 28, 2022

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Horror Stories

Halloween’s Scariest Monster Could Be Technology

October 28, 2022

A movie clapperboard and halloween decoration. Horror movie night.

Film & TV

A Crowdsourced List of Some of the Best Halloween Movie Classics

October 27, 2022

Halloween

10 Costume Ideas for Halloween 2022

October 21, 2022

Collage: (left) Photo of Lilia Buckingham. A young white woman with long blonde hair poses in front of a blue Hocus Pocus 2 backdrop. She wears a light, sequined gown and matching gloves. (right) Movie Poster for the Hocus Pocus 2 movie. Poster features headshots of the three main witches and the teen protagonists below them in a purple and black theme. Gold words below all of them read "Hocus Pocus 2".

Film & TV

BU Student Stars in Hocus Pocus 2

October 11, 2022

Student Health

Your Guide to a Fun and Safe Halloween

October 28, 2021

photo of a Bulldog in a Halloween vampire costume.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: October 28 to 31

October 28, 2021

Still from the horror film Rosemary's baby. Rosemary stands in a blue night gown with a knife in her hand over a black baby cradle.

Books

Need a Halloween Flick? BU’s Regina Hansen Has Edited a New Book on Satan in Cinema

October 28, 2021

Just for Fun

What Your Favorite Halloween Candy Says About You

October 29, 2020

Halloween

The History of Halloween

October 30, 2019

The History of Halloween