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The fog hung in the air like unravelling skeins of cotton wool, an almost-solid thing too heavy to be stirred by the chill November breeze that rattled bare branches overhead and threatened loose roof tiles as it passed.

Marshall Teller pulled out his torch, more out of a sense of obligation than from any real belief that it would help. The light was a warm gold, and the beam made shining yellow circles against the roiling mass of white that pressed in all around him.

He clicked it off again, stowed it away.

"Okay," he said. "Fine. And now what?"

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Marilyn Teller grasped the little cardboard tab between thumb and forefinger, used her free hand to hold the box steady against the cluttered kitchen countertop, and pulled.

Her children, four and seven and already exhibiting the kind of smarts that had her stuck in a perpetual motion machine that swung from pride to exasperation and back again, appeared in the kitchen doorway.

"Your nana's cat knew that trick," she told them, turning. "Open the icebox, pick up a can opener, there she was, begging for treats."

She held out two full-size Icky-Sticky bars.

"Here," she said. "Before the trick-or-treaters arrive."

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The man from Everything Corn took a step back, the better to take in the full glory of his store-front Halloween display.

Grinning jack-o-lanterns painstakingly woven from dried out corn husks sat in the gloom cast by towering sheathes bound in black and orange twine, corn dollies of more than usually sinister aspect lurked menacingly in every place a little man made of corn could conceivably lurk, and a great cauldron filled with corn syrup and topped with a crisp layer of stover bubbled in one corner.

Across the street, hollowed-out pumpkin faces gibbered and winked. He ignored them all.

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The wooden handle of the spatula was smooth, sturdy, and slightly warm to the touch, as though the ghosts of every chef who'd come before her had left some trace of themselves upon it. The head was a glossy rounded curve of smooth and flexible rubber, supple and unbroken.

And yet...

"Tod," said Janet, trying to pitch her voice at it's most un-judgemental level and probably failing, "Do you have any kitchen utensils without skulls and bats and pumpkins all over them?"

The smile of the grinning jackolantern on her spatular seemed to fade a little.

"Nope," said Tod. "None."

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This week on the show, we discuss the cult classic, Eerie, Indiana, and its Halloween episode "Scariest Home Videos."
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It was Halloween, and ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties stalked the town of Eerie. Marshall Teller sat on the back steps of his parents' house, sipping a mug of hot chocolate and nodding along as a bipedal hedgehog with a Missus Tiddlywinks-esque frilled bonnet paged through a seemingly endless supply of photo albums, each one showcasing a different grandchild.

Since the Curly Toed Binsnarfer matriarch appeared to be related to every cryptid Marshall had ever heard of, and quite a few that he was frantically taking notes on, this didn't bother him half as much as you might think.


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"It's for Halloween," said Simon, using a cotton bud to wipe away the excess glue from the freshly pin-adorned tie. "The Rat King decided he wanted to go as a Business Rat King, so I'm making two hundred interview-suit worthy ties, several pairs of wire-rimmed spectacles -thankfully without lenses - and a dozen tiny briefcases for him."

"Huh," said Marshall. He considered the neat stash of crafting materials piled at Simon's back, then considered his own Saturday plans, which had mostly consisted of "hang out with Simon" anyway.

"Need a hand?"

Simon grinned.

"Needle-nosed pliers are on the desk behind you."

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Mister Radford pulled a dozen more Sexy Clown costumes from the shelves and set them aside. Much as it pained him to admit it, Winston was right; too many people had lost lives, limbs or loved ones to the Sewer Clowns for there to be anything less that a widespread "kill it first, ask questions never" reaction to any hint of a red nose or greasepaint-pallid complexion.

He lifted the "Sexy Ringmaster" deluxe costume down from the rack and considered it. Strictly speaking, a Ringmaster was different from a clown, but would the people of Eerie appreciate the difference?

No.

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Miss Annabelle Lee's eyes were wide and shining, the pupils so dilated that their blackness almost matched the bags underneath them.

"How wonderful," she said, holding up a bulky plastic-wrapped package labelled 'Sexy Shakespearean Death Scene'. A dress whose fabric was carefully dip-dyed to resemble water damage, a poisoned dagger and a flower crown were prominently advertised on the front.

"We have that in Romeo and Juliet too," offered Radford. "And a Titus Andronicus accessories set that includes a pie with little doll's limbs poking out of it."

Miss Annabelle Lee paused, considering.

"Tell me," she said. "Is it... sexy?"

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Chisel dismissed the pervasive sexism invading women's Halloween experience with a wave of a hand.

"That's not the issue," he said with the casual air of a man who, by dint of being a man, has never been forced to choose between Sexy Chili Pepper and Sexy Ghost (mini-dress edition) on October 31st. "The issue is that in a town with an evil clown population which remains stubbornly above zero, letting someone wear this outside is going to get them killed."

Radford looked blank.

"On Halloween? When my sugar tax initiative comes into play?"

"Oh," said Radford. "Money. Of course."

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The Mayor flipped through the tightly-packed costume rail that ran the full length of the World o' Stuff, pausing now and then to chuckle at one that had caught his eye. Then he stopped.

"Bartholomew," he said, pulling the plastic-wrapped bundle of fabric free with some difficulty. "What is this?"

Radford dutifully glanced at it.

"Sexy clown," he said, moustache twisting down in disapproval. "It's an ongoing problem with the lady's costumes. I try to get a few truly grizzly ones in every year, but there's only so much on the market and eventually you resort to "sexy noun" again."

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Mayor Winston Chisel ducked beneath the chandelier made from two dozen anatomically inaccurate representations of a skeletal human arm, stepped over a cartoonishly cute plush rendition of the Rat King, and took a seat beside a cackling animatronic witch who turned to regard him with glowing red LED eyes, before apparently deciding better of it and glancing away so fast he heard her servos whining.

"What do you think?" asked Radford, as he handed over a just-poured Martini.

"Very good," he said. "Very festive. The fake-entrails bunting outside is an ghoulish touch."

Radford laughed nervously.

"Bunting," he mumbled. "Yes. Ha-ha."

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Marshall had to admit that the Tod and Donna Halloween Spooktacular Special was better than he'd expected.

Shot entirely in black and white, with unsettlingly skewed camera angles and a score comprised mostly of ominous organ riffs and scare chords, and containing at least three visual homages to Boris Von Orloff's "The Bloody Revenge of the Mummy's Curse" within the first twenty minutes alone, he'd actually been enjoying himself until the second act.

"Is that Harley?" he whispered, to Simon, who was dozing beside a bowl of popcorn bigger than his own torso.

Simon blinked, focused, and groaned.

"Not again!"

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The corn maze towered above them, the entrance dark and shadowed and lorded over by a great scarecrow who seemed sometimes to have too many limbs and always to have too many teeth.

"Looks good, right boys?" Edgar enthused.

Marshall and Simon considered. The scarecrow, perhaps moved by some stray gust of wind, turned it's sagging and sackcloth face towards them and smiled a wide and nicotine-yellow smile.

"Great," said Marshall.

"Great," echoed Simon.

Syndi, resplendent in autumn colours and her hair teased into the consistency of straw beneath a broad-brimmed hat, scoffed.

"Still scared of the Wizard of Oz?"

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