Halloween is right around the corner and there are a number of sites and services that can help enhance your holiday experience. Here are over 20 fun, strange, weird and sometimes wacky websites and applications to satisfy those of you with a fondness for the Halloween season.

Here you'll find everything from sites that map out local haunted houses to Facebook apps that let you carve your own pumpkin, and more.

Which are your favorites?

Spooky Sites







HalloweenMashup.com - A mashup of local Halloween events using Google Maps, Yahoo News, Yahoo Local, Flickr, Upcoming, and HostIP.

FindaGrave - Finds the final resting places of famous or infamous people. Many times with a photo of what it looks like too.

Halloween.com - Covers all the basics of the holiday season.

Kaboose's Halloween Games - The site has a large collection of spooky games.

Halloween Ghost Stories - Has lots of scary tales to share around the campfire.







Halloween-Online - A resourceful Halloween guide.

Ben & Jerry's Halloween - Offers a Halloween history, crafts, games and more.

HauntedHouses - Helps you find haunted houses you can actually visit!

History of Halloween - The History Channel has a fun-filled site for Halloween, including the origins of the holiday, with games, trivia, ghost stories, costume ideas and stencils for carving pumpkins.

Halloween Media







HalloweenMovies - Official site for Michael Meyers and his Halloween movies

Halloween Movies Checklist - Check out this long list of Halloween and scary movies from IMDB.

Halloween Photos - If you want to see Halloween photos, try the Halloween tag from Flickr.

Halloween TV Shows - Both kids and adults will enjoy these Halloween video clips from PBS.org.

Halloween Facebook Apps







Happy Halloween - Send Facebook friends a scary gift with a Halloween greeting.

Halloween Gifts - Send Facebook friends Halloween Gifts.

What are you wearing for Halloween - This app lets you post your Halloween costume, see what your friends are wearing, and send them treats.

Halloween Builder - Carve your own pumpkin with this Facebook app.

Halloween Cinema Classics - Send your Facebook friends images of classic scary movie moments.

There are many more Halloween-oriented Facebook applications. Check them out here.

Halloween iPhone/iTouch Apps







Halloween - Play spooky Halloween sounds on your iPhone with this $0.99 cent download.

AdLibs Lite: Halloween Edition - A free iPhone app that lets you mix up words to create fun Halloween stories.

Halloween Picture Haunt - Spot the differences between these haunted images.

Crazy Skeleton - This $1.99 iPhone app brings a talking and moving skeleton to your iphone.

For more Halloween iPhone apps, visit the app store here.

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