A SKELETON
Bones making up your thorax include the sternum & 12 pairs of these
Ribs
Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them
Gaelic
At Disneyland you can watch the Headless Horseman ride down this central road
Main Street
December 4, 1965:
The Grateful Dead know the way to this Silicon Valley city where they play their first-ever show
San Jose
Wow! The neighbors gave trick-or-treaters the king size of this Nestle candy bar with a noisy name
Crunch
This lower jawbone is the strongest & largest bone of the face
The Mandible
In a forerunner to this Halloween statement, kids would ask for food in exchange for saying prayers for the dead
"I got a rock" was Charlie Brown's lament in the 1966 TV special about this "Great" imaginary being
The Great Pumpkin
Oct. 6, 1971:
The "Skull & Roses" live album comes out, calling their fans these on the back cover
Deadheads
Abe Vigoda & Betty White have appeared in commercials for this candy bar that satisfies
Snickers
This arm bone was named for its supposed resemblance to the spoke of a wheel
The Radius
In the original 1978 "Halloween", a Captain Kirk mask was the perfect disguise for this positively homicidal character
Michael Myers
Because it's Halloween, Elliott dresses up E.T. like one of these so he won't be recognized
A Ghost
August 13, 1995:
25,000 fans jam Golden Gate Park to celebrate this guitarist who'd passed away 4 days earlier
Jerry Garcia
This tri-colored sweet, popular on Halloween, has its own national day on October 30
Candy Corn
Sharing its name with St. Paul's birthplace, it's the collective name for 7 bones in the foot
Tarsus
What would Halloween be without this novelty song from Bobby "Boris" Pickett; "it was a graveyard smash"
Monster Mash
This Warren Zevon tune about shapeshifters in England is a staple on radio stations in October
Werewolves of London
Dec. 11, 1965:
The Dead join this "Cuckoo" author & his Merry Pranksters for an event called an Acid Test
Ken Kesey
The name of these bite-sized candies is also a British term for ninepin bowling
Skittles
This part of the skull that protects the brain is made up of 8 bones including the occipital & temporal bones
The Cranium
Legend says that death awakens the dead with a fiddle on Halloween & invites the skeletons to this French-named dance of death
Danse Macabre
"Halloween III" was subtitled this, just like the title of a Donovan song
Season of the Witch
July 5, 2015:
The Dead say farewell with a 50th anniversary show including this song about their "long, strange trip"
Truckin
Tootsie Roll Industries makes Tootsie Pops (candy inside a lollipop) & these Blow Pops (gum inside a lollipop)
Charms