Since childhood, I have loved the spooky season and Halloween. From my earliest memories of helping my mother sell bags of candy shaped like witches, scarecrows, and ghosts to benefit the National Kidney Foundation, to my college days when my roommates and I dressed as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and through my years in New York City watching the spectacular Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, Halloween has fueled my imagination.

When my husband and I lived in University Heights, we enjoyed handing out candy to the dozens of trick-or-treaters who rang our doorbell. Now, in Moreland Hills, we don’t get any young visitors on Halloween night, but we still celebrate.

Most years, I rewatch a classic Universal Pictures monster movie, often Bela Lugosi’s “Dracula,” and “Rosemary’s Baby

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