Maeve Higgins: Channelling my inner Cher for Halloween

Everyone is catered for on Halloween, a sugar-fuelled party that celebrates the most harmless of holidays, albeit one with roots that trace back to the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain

A 'scary dentist practice' Halloween display in Brooklyn, New York, in 2018. Photo: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images

SPOOKY season is upon us, and my mind, body, and spirit have never been more ready. I have horrible little warty squashes crammed into a bowl on my kitchen table, I have bags of Hershey’s Kisses prepared to fling at the trick-or-treaters, and I’m invited to a Witches of Eastwick-themed party.

Throughout my Brooklyn neighbourhood, people have decorated their buildings with webbing and giant spiders crawling up the walls. Nodding clowns and tumble-down tombstones line their front gardens, alongside carved pumpkins and floating puppet ghosts crowding their steps.