Quoth the raven, "Eat my shorts."

It might be an adorable preschooler wearing an Incredible Hulk mask with her tutu. Or three teenagers with empty pillowcases, no discernible costumes, and makeshift cudgels dangling from their hands. Or maybe it’s the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, back to check if he left his iPhone at your place last night.

In any of these scenarios, you’d want to send your visitor(s) away happy, right?

To that end, in honor of Neil Gaiman’s All Hallow’s Read, we urge you to drop a spooky story into someone’s plastic pumpkin bucket this year, such as the terrifying tales by Caitlin Sinead Jennings or Dan Ress from our October issue. The stories from last season’s shiver-inducing Halloween Special Issue would also score big points with your friends, family members, casual acquaintances, and mortal enemies.

And if you’re worried about what to do with all those Snickers and Reese’s peanut butter cups you were planning to hand out, we’d gladly take them off your hands. (Editorial Staff, c/o The Jersey Devil, Pine Barrens, NJ, USA. Or just leave the basket under a tree; we’ll find it.)