Music
This 1962 novelty hit is the ultimate Halloween dance — “It was a graveyard smash!”
Monster Mash
These prehistoric lovebirds from Bedrock make a classic couples’ Halloween look.
Fred and Wilma Flintstone
In this franchise, Sidney Prescott outsmarts Ghostface in multiple films
Sidney Prescott
In The Silence of the Lambs, a FBI trainee works with a serial killer named
Hannibal
This ghostly tune by Ray Parker Jr. asks, “Who you gonna call?”
Ghostbusters
One wears a lightning bolt scar and glasses; the other sports red hair and a bookish charm.
Harry Potter and Hermione Granger
This A24 horror movie ends with its protagonist becoming the May Queen — and leaving her trauma in flames.
Midsommar
This ghost story by Charles Dickens teaches that even the stingiest soul can be haunted into kindness
A Christmas Carol
This song from Hocus Pocus has the Sanderson Sisters casting a spell on Salem’s partygoers
I Put a Spell on You?
This TV witch and her talking cat are a perfect nostalgic costume combo for ’90s kids
Sabrina and Salem
This heroine from Scream Queens and American Horror Story is known as the real-life “scream queen” of modern horror
Emma Roberts
This 1959 haunted-house classic inspired a Netflix series with the same name
The Haunting of Hill House
"They're creepy and they're kooky - Mysterious and spooky" are lyrics from the theme song for this iconic family
The Addams Family
In this 1980 horror film’s Final Girl, Alice Hardy, survives a killer who turns out not to be Jason—but his mother.
Friday the 13th
This 1931 novel’s lonely creature asks, “Why did you make me?”
Frankenstein's Monster