As the costumes are put away, the decorations taken down, and candy wrappers gathered from every corner of the house, I thought it would be fun to take one last look at this year’s fun and creepy Halloween celebrations, with photographs from Canada, Turkey, the United States, China, Japan, Chile, England, Poland, and more. It’s only a matter of days before Christmas music will start to fill every public space.
Scenes From Halloween 2018
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Read moreA woman poses during a Halloween event at the UNIQ Forest in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 31, 2018. #
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Read moreCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is met by people wearing masks of the Muppets characters Statler and Waldorf during a caucus meeting on Halloween in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. #
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Read moreJaclyn Swyt (left), dressed as Pikachu, and Lynn McKinney (right), dressed as a sumo wrestler, walk their children home from the school bus on Halloween in Nashville, Tennessee. #
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Read moreRevelers dressed in Halloween costumes gather in the Shibuya region on Halloween night in Tokyo, Japan. #
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Read moreSalem's famous witch, Lorelei Stathopoulos, uses dragon powder on a candle in her shop in Salem, Massachusetts, on October 31, 2018. #
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Read moreChildren dress in costume for Halloween in Brighton, England. #
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Read moreDecorations sit in front of homes in Sierra Madre, California, east of Los Angeles, to attract trick-or-treaters out for candy on Halloween night. #
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Read moreIn Nanjing, China, people in costume stagger about during a Halloween, zombie-themed activity at a mall on October 31, 2018. #
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Read moreTrick-or-treaters in search of candy on Halloween night in Sierra Madre, California, on a street popular for its decorated homes #
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Read moreCustomers unhurriedly choose pumpkins on Halloween at a pumpkin farm in Wilanów, Poland, near Warsaw. Halloween is becoming more popular among the young people in the predominantly Catholic nation. #
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Read moreZombie sisters maneuver their way down Santa Monica Bolevard in West Hollywood, California, during the West Hollywood Carnaval and Halloween Parade on October 31, 2018. #
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Read moreLogan Campbell, dressed as a Star Wars stormtrooper, takes part in an underwater Halloween costume competition as he dives in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary off of Key Largo, Florida, on October 31, 2018. #
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Read morePeople paint each other's face during a Halloween festival in Harbin, China, on October 31, 2018. #
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Read moreYoung women with their face painted as a clown and a zombie, respectively, for Halloween travel in the subway in Santiago, Chile, on October 30, 2018. #
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Read moreA reveler pauses for a picture during the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in New York on October 31, 2018. #
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Read moreA local convenience-store worker hands out candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween in Brooklyn, New York. #
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Read moreChildren dressed in their colorful costumes play as they take a break from trick-or-treating in the suburban Makati, Philippines, east of Manila, on October 31, 2018. #
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Read moreTrick-or-treaters walk by on Halloween night in Sierra Madre, California. #
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Read moreRevelers participate in the 2018 New York City Halloween Parade on October 31, 2018. #
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Read moreAfter the party: Volunteers in costume pick up garbage in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, on November 1, 2018. Volunteers cleaned up the streets where locals and foreign visitors had gathered for what has become Tokyo's biggest unofficial Halloween event in recent years. #
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Read moreVolunteers dressed as Roomba automatic vacuum cleaners pick up garbage in Shibuya on November 1, 2018, in Tokyo, Japan. #
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