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How a Legal Case Changed Halloween

How a Legal Case Changed Halloween
German actor Max Schreck (1879–1936), as the vampire Count Orlok, being destroyed by sunlight, in a still from F. W. Murnau’s expressionist horror film “Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens,” 1921. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Across the United States, jack-o-lanterns, witches, goblins, and vampires turn up all over the place in late October. Of course, by that time they have been on display in retail stores for almost two months. Halloween is big business.

A favorite seasonal activity is watching scary movies at home or at the theater. The biggest opening feature this season is likely to be a horror movie titled “Halloween,” a follow-up to the 1978 horror classic (both of which star Jamie Lee Curtis).

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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