Ah! A cameo appearance by my favorite Halloween blow mold -- the Don Featherstone Haunted House -- hiding in a 1996 episode of Family Matters! Right there behind Steve Urkel! (One of the many haunted houses we covered on the latest Purple Stuff Podcast.)

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I'm not sure if any Halloween decoration could possibly go harder than Dracula with a coffin full of '90s-era Doritos and Pepsi.

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One of my best finds of the season: A still-packaged "Spook-O-Lites" devil lamp from the 1960s! Back then, Halloween played for keeps.

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Love the artwork on this Fanta can.

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There's something magical about turning your heat back on after months of not using it. It's the fourth quarter's version of summer's first waft of pool chlorine. That faint stink of singed metal is like if Yankee Candle had to come up with something to cover every holiday from Oct - Dec.

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