A West Highland Terrier dressed as a 'Queen Bee' is held by her owner during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade October 18, 2009. Halloween may be a celebration of all things creepy and macabre, but a growing number of US communities are shunning traditional ghoulish festivities, seen by some as tainted by association with paganism and the occult. Photo:Timothy A.
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