In just six years, giant skeletons have gone from an absurd viral novelty to the centerpiece of an expanding retail arms race ...

Halloween has arrived at Starbucks. Along with sipping on pumpkin spice lattes, you can now pick up one of Starbucks’ Halloween cups to get you into the spooky spirit. This year’s collection includes ...

The connection between death, skeletons, and Halloween date back to ancient times.

In today's day and age, you don't need a calendar to tell you what holiday is right around the corner. Look instead, good people, to your neighbor's skeleton display. Once thought of as purely ...

How did a form of human remains become linked to Halloween? Ancient and more modern traditions alike have long included bones as symbols of mortality and the spirit world. The season of ...

Halloween brings out familiar symbols like witches, jack-o'-lanterns and black cats. But the season also beckons a more macabre figure lurking inside homes, classrooms and front lawns—the skeleton.