There is something wonderfully different about vintage Halloween. Instead of enormous inflatables, digital projections, and elaborate animatronics, the Halloween homes of earlier decades often relied on simpler ingredients: glowing jack-o’-lanterns, orange-and-black paper decorations, grinning cats, crescent moons, crepe-paper streamers, cardboard skeletons, and just enough candlelight to make everything look mysterious after dark. That simplicity is …
