Your guide to a Southern California Halloween

Dia de Muertos or Day of the Dead home décor now has an aisle on the holiday section of major American retailers and although it’s not the same as Halloween, they both happen during Fall season.

Mexico’s beloved grande dame of death, a stylishly attired skeleton named La Catrina, her grinning skull topped with trademark hat, has company in the market stands here: Hollywood extraterrestrials, Batman and other superheroes, along with sundry witches and monsters.

Immerse yourself in Mayan culture and Day of the Dead festivities on a 10-day all-inclusive tour of Guatemala offered by Bella Guatemala Travel.

Sixty-four bottles of tequila. Forty bottles of triple sec. Sixty-four bottles of lemon juice.

Twix, Mounds, Baby Ruth, Snickers, Peppermint Patties, candy corn and more.

Looking to get scared witless this Halloween weekend?

She didn’t have fangs, but I still thought she might be a vampire.

If you want to visit a catacomb, head to Europe; there are no ossuaries or catacombs in America.

It’s not just for trick-or-treaters or partygoers anymore, Halloween has become a mecca for specialized-film going as well, with all kinds of cinema available through the holiday weekend.

In an era of mega-budget Halloween attractions, a Los Feliz neighborhood has discovered the ultimate fright: a 16-year-old’s imagination.

Jeffrey Hatcher’s spooky adaptation of Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw” creeps its way into Actors Co-op’s Crossley Theatre just in time for Halloween.

Conveniently in time for Halloween, the Hoxton Street Monster Supplies shop — this is an actual shop in London — has come out with “The Monster’s Cookbook,” with 70 “everyday recipes for the living, dead and undead.”

Colin Dickey was looking for a bargain during the real-estate fire sale following the 2008 mortgage disaster when he came across a foreclosed house in Echo Park that creeped him out.

Prepared to be scared – or maybe just amused?

Melissa Carbone quit her high-paying marketing job eight years ago and invested her life savings into something extremely scary: She launched a haunted hayride attraction in the heart of Los Angeles.

One of the more awkward truths of adulthood is that grown-ups love Halloween as much, or possibly even more, than the kids do.

Much like Nathaniel Hawthorne, a writer she admired, Shirley Jackson was one of the most house-bound of American novelists.

Knott’s Berry Farm, whose Fear VR attraction stirred controversy among mental health advocates, has decided to close the Halloween attraction.

Universal Studios Hollywood has assembled the best Halloween Horror Nights ever whose lineup reads like a who’s who of modern and classic horror movies and television shows.

The lineup reads like a who’s who of horror: “The Exorcist,” “American Horror Story,” “Friday the 13th,” “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Halloween,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Walking Dead.”

I had high expectations when I arrived at Universal Studios Hollywood for an exclusive preview of a new Halloween Horror Nights haunted maze based on what I and many consider to be the scariest movie of all time: “The Exorcist.”

“The Nightmare Before Christmas” is returning to the Hollywood Bowl for Halloween, with Danny Elfman reprising his live performance as Jack Skellington, the melancholy Pumpkin King who longs to celebrate Christmas.

The last thing Amy Tsai needs at this high-pressure moment is a Playboy-style bunny wearing a red plaid tuxedo.

I sat at the edge of my seat, waiting to be called up.

New York City psychologist Linda Hamilton theorizes that the reason some of us love horror movies is that it takes us out of our normal life.

It’s as if the essence of fall has somehow been harnessed by the pot bubbling away on the stove.