I was thinking of Halloween scares. Around Halloween, everybody has the same ideas. Werewolves and zombies and mummies, oh my! Halloween things aren't terribly scary because they're known quantities. You can rattle off a number of facts about any of them.
People fear the unknown and the unexpected. Which brings me to what actually got me thinking about Halloween the day after Christmas: Santa Claus. I owned an animatronic Santa Class that would pretend to read from a book while the tape deck in his grandfather clock played. The tape is replaceable: you can install whichever tape you want.
Recording his regular tape with a little extra screaming would be a great Halloween trick. A room in a Haunted House, decked out in complete Christmas gear, but with some disturbing juxtapositions. Plus, it ruins Christmas. Good times!
