There are two cemeteries at the end of the street, one with toppling tombstones and the other quickly filling with ghosts. There is a real cemetery in this typical Canadian community as well, but its natural edginess pales in comparison even to the houses surrounding it. One, for example, has a full skeleton hanging by the neck off a porch beam. And neighbours up and down the street are hurrying to go one better -- a witch in the maple tree? a fogging machine along the walkway? -- before Thursday's Fright Final. No one seems quite sure when Halloween began...