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MANE DRAG Fido will be the fiercest critter on the block in the Animal Planet Lion Dog Costume (Amazon.com; $62.99), one of many pet getups from California Costumes.


Master carver Hugh McMahon from Brooklyn, N.Y., offers these tips:


Pumpkin Do’s


the character you want to carve.


the bottom, not the top—your jack-o’- lantern will keep its shape better. Turn it upside down and


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Slice a hole in the pumpkin in


Pick a pumpkin shaped similar to


scoop out the seeds.


with a water-based marker. Use cutting and carving tools and follow along the lines.


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For a mellow- yellow glow, peel or carve areas or


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Draw a design on the pumpkin


sections of skin off the surface of the pumpkin instead of cutting all the way through.


to get brighter, more even lighting.


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SPOOKY READS


If you’re in the mood to curl up with a blood- curdling new book, here’s just what the (mad) doctor ordered.


4 | OCTOBER 26, 2014 © PARADE Publications 2014. All rights reserved Halloween! TOMES OF TERROR


(Mark Leslie, $24.99, Dundurn) You’ll never look at a library so casually again after reading these true tales, all set in spooky libraries and haunted bookshops!


AMERICAN MONSTERS


(Linda S. Godfrey, $16.95, Tarcher/Pen- guin) This travelogue sorts through lore and history to reveal the truth of things that have terrified folks for centuries nationwide.


The more teeth, the scarier!


Use a light bulb instead of a candle


WATCH THESE…IF YOU DARE! The 1978 movie that kick-started the entire horror-slasher genre and spawned a thousand nightmares comes packaged, along with all nine of its sequels, with a bounty of bonus features, in the Halloween Complete Collection ($169.99). Or if you prefer your scares a bit more retrofied, check out The Vincent Price Collection II ($79.97), a four-disc Blu-ray roundup of seven classics by the versatile, stage-trained actor, including House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Comedy of Terrors (1963) and The Last Man on Earth (1964).


TAKE YOUR PICK Dapper Vincent Price (top), or slasher Michael Myers.


ZOMBIES ON FILM:


THE DEFINITIVE STORY OF THE UNDEADCIN-


EMA (Ozzy Inguanzo, $40, Rizzoli USA) A journey through nine decades of your favorite flesh eaters from pop culture.


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PHOTOS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP MIDDLE: COURTESY OF HUGH MCMAHON; EVERETT COLLECTION (2)


HAPPY


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