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If you think your jack-o'-lantern will be frightening, wait until you see the price tag.

Pumpkin Prices Could Give a Scare Leslie Josephs 2011

Rule Number 4 may be the most controversial because it limits porch and yard decorations to jack-o'-lanterns and simple props such as cotton spiderwebs and mock gravestones.

Jeffrey Shaffer: The Ghosts of Halloween Past Jeffrey Shaffer 2011

The Keene Pumpkin Festival, in New Hampshire, goes for quantity of another sort, with 25,000 lit jack-o'-lanterns on its main street, while the Pumpkin Chuckin Festival in Millsboro, Del., goes for distance with its airborne pumpkins.

Smashing Event: In This Small Town, Pumpkins Are a Big Deal Clare Ansberry 2011

It's tricky, though, to catch the eye of early holiday shoppers without exasperating folks still in jack-o'-lantern mode.

For Early Shoppers, It's a Wrap Elizabeth Holmes 2011

Fans will remember that at a rooftop Halloween bash in Season 1, Ted Josh Radnor met a girl in a jack-o'-lantern getup with "strategically placed holes."

First Look: Katie Holmes Gets Slutty on How I Met Your Mother 2011

It wouldn't be Halloween without a little jack-o'-lantern action.

The (Trick or) Treats 2011

Describing herself as "borderline obsessed" with snot otters, she says, "I have gone so far as to carve a hellbender shape in my jack-o'-lantern every year" at Halloween.

Green Movement's New Mascot: the Slimy Snot Otter Leslie Eaton 2011

Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal More photos and interactive graphics The light of the setting sun combined with the glow from the windows makes it look like a jack-o ' -lantern from passing tour boats or people strolling by on a path by the river.

For Sale: Pumpkin With a View Josh Barbanel 2010

A few years ago, when he was still married, Remy had kicked his kid's jack-o--lantern underneath his porch and this was how it smelled in the spring.

The Zero Walter, Jess 2006

She was wearing a sweater with a jack-o--lantern on it, although it was closer to Christmas, and enough eyeshadow to cover a battalion of super-models.

The Tenth Circle Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2006