Living in London, there no longer seems to be a homegrown halloween tradition, it is very much the imported US festival. My best friend, who is a Londoner (not a blow in like myself) does not have a tradition of celebrating halloween; I come from Liverpool and grew up with halloween, it's one of my favourite times of the year, of course we always had to go to mass the next day. Last year my friend at the instigation of her (grown up) daughter decided to celebrate halloween; I took some halloweeny dvds - Company of Wolves; Corpse Bride and Witches of Eastwick; unfortunately the glorification of gore was required with nothing left to the imagination, you could feel the boredom with these tame offerings! One funny part was that she had tried to get food and drink which celebrated the gore and for me she pointed out that she had bought some black pudding - she didn't realise that it had to be cooked! If I stay at home I get a good book of ghost stories and some nice beer. The television used to also celebrate halloween but no longer it seems.