Theme parks and Halloween events offer a spooky experience

AS the month of October draws to a close, the emergence of corpses, severed heads and limbs, vampires, zombies and all forms of mystical and ghastly figures mark the return of Halloween.

Though the occasion is considered more of a novelty than an actual cultural holiday in Malaysia, it does not stop the young and young-at-heart from satisfying their fascination with the grotesque and the macabre.