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Wednesday Addams cosplayer

... that Wednesday Addams (cosplayer pictured) has been described as "the embodiment of a zeitgeist in which dark aesthetics have become a form of self-expression for an entire generation"?
... that recipes for pumpkin scones appear throughout Australian newspapers of the 1920s and 1930s?
... that a Haunting of Hill House episode made a journalist go to bed with the lights on for the first time in years?
... that some people in Britain once paid sin-eaters to eat funeral food?
... that around 1,500 volunteers help a pharmacist in Kenova, West Virginia, cover his Victorian home with thousands of jack-o'-lanterns every year for Halloween?
... that some believe that the "High German doctor" mentioned in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was inspired by a legendary witch said to have been killed in the American Revolutionary War?
... that an Agatha Christie murder mystery was adapted into a manga series?
... that players of a survival horror game navigate a modern-day replica of H. H. Holmes's "Murder Castle"?
... that the Great Pumpkin Mystery has never been solved?