Halloween's Over.

. . . and not one kid came to the house.
Kids in the neighborhood don't trick or treat anymore.
They now only go to parties that are a) family or friends only, or b) at school.

It's apparently the only way to keep them safe. After 20 years of stories about drive-bys, apples with razor blades, serial killers, and kidnappers, there is no way that a sensible mother lets her kids out at night.

Halloween began as a way of warding off the Devil and his servants. How strange that we no longer fear the Devil, but are terrified of our neighbors.