Scary Monsters

 No sooner do we think up a really scary thing than we start chipping away at the fear with humour. By this stage of the game all the "classic" Halloween monsters are essentially figures of fun. The Frankenstein monster, the caped vampire, the Mummy, the Wolfman: is anyone really frightened of them any more? More recent movie monsters are going the same way- Jason, Freddie Kruger etc. Kids put on the costumes, the scars, the masks-  and go trick or treating.