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Halloween is the darkest of the feast nights celebrated widely in the English-speaking world. For some, it is a night of revelry and masquerade, with everday social distinctions blurred by disguise. Others claim — or fear — to see a different kind of blurring, between the world they know and a phantasmal one beyond. One undersized but vocal faction thinks primarily of gorging itself on candy. But no matter what strange forces you encounter as the witching hour approaches on October 31, you will face them more knowledgeably if you have already conquered our Hardly Horrifying Halloween Quiz.

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