Halloween

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With so many people living (and dying) on the Tudor Place grounds over the decades, the place is bound to be haunted, so Halloween is the perfect time to visit.

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Halloween flags fly in the wind above cornstalks at Cox Farms in Centreville,Va. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A Halloween retailer says it can predict the presidential race based on sales of Obama or Romney masks. It also offers children’s elephant costumes. (Image provided by Spirit Halloween)

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In this photo taken Oct. 28, 2011 and released by Ascent Services Worldwide LLC, climbers Silas Rossi, left, and Angela Hawse, in Halloween costumes, dangle beneath an overhang in the Guide's Olympics during the American Mountain Guides Association's annual conference at the Shawangunk climbing area in New Paltz, N.Y. (AP Photo/Ascent Services Worldwide LLC, Joe Lentini)

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Frank Ramirez, a manager at Don Lobo's Mexican Grill, describes the scene where a young man was shot in the head from a passing car on Halloween night in front of the restaurant in the 2800 block of M St. NW in Georgetown, seen in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 1, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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Popular among Democrats this Halloween? The Mitt Romney over-the-head vinyl mask is sold out nationwide say some sources. (Image from Costumecraze.com)

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The Georgetown Theatre Company's annual Halloween reading of Edgar Allan Poe, a man who lived in horror every day of the year, is consistently good.

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Nearly every bar in D.C. that decides to recognize Halloween does so by offering $50--sometimes more, sometimes less--for the best costume. In most cases, this is enough to provoke half the city's women to walk around in the October chill wearing only their underwear.