EVERY year, hundreds of thousands of families across Scotland buy pumpkins to carve for Halloween. The tradition spans generations and is a fun way to get creative and into the mood of spooky season.

Waste experts are issuing an urgent warning as Halloween decorations begin to vanish from homes across the country – don't carelessly discard your pumpkins or abandon them in the countryside. With ...

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy.

Islanders are being encouraged to reuse and recycle pumpkins after Halloween. Guernsey Waste said a "scary amount" of waste was produced at the end of October every year. It said the pieces of flesh ...

Every year, dozens of people in France suffer mainly digestive symptoms after eating inedible squash. The biochemical origins of this plant toxicity are now better understood. Several varieties of ...

For some 40 years, Silicon Valley engineer Mike Valladao has been turning the humble jack-‘o-lantern into high-end creations Susan Young is a reporter for PEOPLE. She started working for PEOPLE in ...

"Farmer Mike" Valladao has been carving giant pumpkins for nearly 40 years, starting in 1984 when he saw the world's largest pumpkin at a festival in Half Moon Bay, Calif. He started growing his own ...

It's Halloween and thousands of UK households will be craving and displaying pumpkins for the weekend, but they have been urged not to throw them in black bin bags after the celebrations. Instead, ...

Danny Elfman doesn’t have an answer for what made The Nightmare Before Christmas such a holiday-season staple years after its premiere. But he’s perfectly fine being in the dark about it. “What makes ...

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy chewing the scenery as a coven in this family-friendly Halloween treat is ...

At Legoland Windsor, more than 500 real pumpkins sit beside nine Lego models, built from over 44,000 pieces and weighing just over 100 kilograms. Each one took hours of careful work to shape curved ...

Just in time for Halloween, could this finally be Bat Boy: The Musical’s moment? The show—story and book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming, music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe—was first performed ...