The thriving Home Depot Skeleton fandom is just the most recent, concrete proof of a theory I’ve had for years: Halloween decorations (just overall Halloween nostalgia, actually) is a fleeting yet powerful antidote to the actual real-life horrors that persist around us.
While the high of Halloween during childhood is one we’ll be chasing ’til death do us part, the one good thing about being an adult during Halloween is having adult money to spend on the cool decorations. You know, the ones that make people drive a little slower so that they can stare for a second.
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