Someone may have asked his daughter for directions, Walter Arrington believes, and forced her into a car as she walked to a CVS pharmacy near her home Montgomery, Alabama, on the day before Halloween, October 30, 1998.

CNN: Waiting for a 'good girl' to come home

The toy-makers defend Halloween as a festival that can co-exist with the Day of the Dead.

ECONOMIST: Mexico, haunted by new ghosts

Mr. Lopez, who says he was unaware of the campaign, notes that Halloween would be a tough day to highlight a Girl Scout.

WSJ: A Holiday Card From Google

In Ireland this time of year is Samhain (sow-wain), in America, we call it Halloween and in Latin America, El Dia DeL Muerto, The Day of the Dead.

FORBES: Celebrate with Piedra Azul

Halloween is a last hurrah of the powers of evil before their routine drubbing on All Hallows' Day.

BBC: How much Christianity is hidden in British society?

There was some picketing by the local arts council and some unwelcome, unflattering news coverage, and neighborhood kids who cared nothing about Emily Dickinson or her house started egging the place and draping our noble birches with toilet paper, and for a while there it was like Halloween every day.

NPR: Chapter 1