Michael Myers made his first appearance in the original 1978 film, Halloween, although the masked character is credited as "The Shape" in the first two films.

Most people probably don't realize that there's actually a prequel to the famous How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and it's a Halloween story. Halloween Is Grinch Night premiered on ABC on October 29, 1977 and even won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.

Bewitched starred Elizabeth Montgomery as a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man, and vows to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife.

In The Howling, Karen resolves to warn the world about the existence of werewolves, and surprises her employers by launching into her warning during a live television news broadcast. Then, to prove her story, she herself transforms into a werewolf.

On November 1, 2013, David Letterman joked: "Did everybody have a good Halloween? I'm just not into the Halloween spirit. What I did was I went to bed early after I turned on the electric fence."

Ghostbusters features Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis as eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City.

Tristan and Isolde live in an aquarium in the Addams family mansion and eat very quickly.

Wednesday's favorite pet is a black widow spider named Homer, although she also has a lizard named Lucifer.

On October 31, 1922, Benito Mussolini became the youngest prime minister in Italian history. After removing all political opposition through his secret police and outlawing labor strikes, Mussolini and his followers would go on to consolidate their power through a series of laws that transformed the nation into a one-party dictatorship.

Harry Houdini had planned an elaborate "Buried Alive" stage escape to be the feature stunt of his 1927 season. In the act, he would escape after being strapped in a straitjacket, sealed in a casket, and then buried in a large tank filled with sand. But Houdini died unexpectedly on October 31, 1926. The bronze casket he had created for his unperformed act was used to transport Houdini's body from Detroit to New York following his death on Halloween.