Scare Me up Something Original

 It is Halloween time again, and this means that people are putting up decorations.  For myself, this is limited to mostly the same old things at my store, Booknotes.  For twenty-one years now, I have been setting up many of the same things, with a few new items, or at least some tweaks here and there.  To be honest, much of it is more autumnal than Halloween, but it all comes together.  What is amazing is what other people have done.  Just on my way to work everyday, I see a wide range of decorating that simply boggles my mind.  For instance, just up the street from me, a house put up one display featuring a Frankenstein monster and a witch on sticks, only to replace it with a 'snow-globe' inflatable on a graveyard scene, with bats and/or ghosts swirling around inside.  The former decorations were moved to the shed.  The town of Wheelwright replaced the autumn harvest bench scene with their own set of inflatables, including a zombie rising from the ground, a giant black cat with a bobbing head, a grim reaper, and a giant spider along with rope 'webbing,' with a tiny skeleton caught within.  Speaking of skeletons, another house has a skeleton climbing a pole after being chased by a skeletal dog, just slightly over pug-size.  There is a second tiny skeleton hanging from near the top of the pole, and it is wearing sunglasses.  The same house has a trio of miniature creepy clowns that they move about every few days to add to the scare factor.  One place has a fabric ghost tied to a tree, but has three heads stuck on poles beside of it.  One head has an arrow sticking from it.  However, the one place that has gone to the most trouble is the same one I have mentioned before.  They set up mannequins for many holidays, with Halloween being the biggest.  This is the home that had a naughty zombie pilgrim scarecrow last Thanksgiving and a tableau of Trump and Biden this past Independence Day.  So far, because they are prone to adding more and more, they have almost a dozens figures around their yard.  A regular scarecrow recently fell down and has yet to be uprighted.  There is a masked serial killer in the remains of the garden.  A demonic nun watches by the road.  A partially dismembered figure lies atop an open cage.  Two fortune-tellers dressed in stereotypical garb (you know what a mean, but I won't use the now culturally inappropriate term as it is considered offensive) sit and stand by a table with a crystal ball featuring a skull inside of it.  Some clowns hand menacingly from a swing set, less than full size.  The main feature lies by the steps of the house.  There, you have Beetlejuice as well as Cousin Itt from The Addams Family.  I'm not sure how the hair was made, but I don't think it is actually hair, but it is hard to tell from a distance.  Meanwhile, my store has two bunnies with bat masks and some orange ribbons on.  Oh, and a small blue brain stress toy hidden about.  Yeah, I need to up my game if the store is open next year.