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  • Close-up of a live-action clicker from HBO's 'The Last of Us.' It's leaning forward with its mouth open. Fungal plates have burst out of its face and they're covering its head.

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  • A group of villagers, each with a pumpkin for a head, dance around a giant pumpkin-headed figure. The sky is grey, the grass is brown, and a nearby tree is skeletal.

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  • OJ (Daniel Kaluuya), Emerald (Keke Palmer), and Angel (Brandon Perea) in Jordan Peele's 'Nope'

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  • Video essayists, educators, and public historians talking about Halloween. Image: screencaps from Elexus Jionde and Kaz Rowe.

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  • A woman crouches in an attic and clutches her head in distress. Detail from Katy Horan's

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  • Steven Yeun looking up in a poster for 'Nope'

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  • The Low Low Woods DC Hill House Comics

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  • Art the Clown in Terrifier 2.

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