Escapade Fancy Dress

If you've been following our countdown to your Halloween fancy dress party, then you should be almost ready.

You've got the food and drink, made some cool decorations and carved the pumpkin – so now it's time to make the most of the flesh you saved from yesterday's jack o'lantern activities.

First of all, you can toast, roast or fry the seeds for a great healthy snack and a good alternative to nuts.

Then, you can use the flesh to create yummy cakes, as it will add moisture to sponges without tasting at all

Something of a mystery has erupted in the US over a man, a suspected burglary and a Halloween fancy dress costume.

In a case that could have come straight from Scooby Doo, a man was arrested earlier this month after being found by police outside an Oregon museum wearing some kind of creature from the Black Lagoon outfit, the Daily Mail reports.

The police dog bit him, but Gregory Liascos insists he was just waiting and happened to be wearing the Halloween costume his

With the preparations for Halloween fancy dress parties now underway in earnest, it could be the perfect time to get hold of a pumpkin or two and carve them to create jack o'lanterns.

Once you've selected your specimens, Pumpkin Carving 101 recommends using a very sharp kitchen knife to make the initial hole in the top and then a paring knife for detail work.

It could be a good idea to have a look around for some templates if you want more complex designs or you simply want to be accurate – you can then use a poking tool or charcoal pencil to guide

You've been looking forward to your Halloween fancy dress party for ages, but at last it's coming up soon enough for you to get the food in.

October 31st is a great excuse to decorate as much of your refreshment stash as possible and there are some fab recipes around from websites such as BBC Good Food.

For example, don't forget to stock up on some baking ingredients so that you can make cupcakes and ice them up as ghosts or spiders (the legs for these can be easily done with Matchmakers).

Meanwhile, for the starters, you can make pea

Fake blood and realistic makeup is essential for anyone who intends to take their Halloween fancy dress seriously.

Jenn Malone, who now works as a makeup artist in Toronto, told the Brock Press that applying your scary cosmetics properly can mean the difference between turning into a sticky mess before midnight and being the most impressive attendee at your party.

She pointed out that if your fake nose is dropping off and you can see through the blood or whatever you've used, you aren't doing it right.

Jenn recommended that at the very