I'm with Susan on this. Although I am all for the use of creativity and imagination, and have always delighted in the dress up, fantasy part of Halloween, and I think that's what it's about for the little ones, I don't like the displays that put a face of terror on them, evoking fear of things everyone will face. For example, one year when I was taking my kids out for their annual Halloween trek through the neighborhood, we were invited into a "haunted house" which was all decked out as a hospital operating room, complete with horrible operations gone bad, body parts here and there and very scary doctors and nurses. Hmmmm.......

Likewise, the use of coffins, graveyards, etc instills a fear of death. Lots of kids lose a loved one to death....why encourage fear of it?