It's still summer, but you may feel a chill in the air: It's coming from Spirit Halloween, which is scaring ... an 8-foot pumpkin-headed figure with a face that lights up and makes noises.

If Ben Franklin were alive today, he might add a third certainty to his now-familiar axiom: death, taxes, and the late-summer creep of Spirit Halloween filling in vacant retail storefronts across ...

Spirit Christmas stores, a new concept by Spirit Halloween, are now open for business. Six of eight locations across the Northeast began operating this week, while two stores in Bohemia ...