Halloween Origins

Halloween or All Hallows Eve is the evening before the November, 1st, the day when ancient Celts celebrated the New Year. That holiday symbolized the end of summer and the beginning of a long cold and scary winter. Celts named that night between summer and winter the night of Samhain and believed that the line between the world of the living and the world of dead get very thin that very evening. The ghosts of the dead return that night to Earth and may wander among the living ones and even do some bad to them.

And so the many traditions was born. People used bonfires out of carved pumpkins to scare away the ghosts and demons with lighting faces. Lots of lights, scary faces, spooky decorations were meant to trick demons and make them let the living ones alone.

The centuries went by, but the traditions remain. But today they are less scary and more funny and entertaining. People still decorate their houses with bats and cats silhouettes, carve ugly snoots on pumpkins and dress up in witches and zombies. But hardly anyone believes that all this stuff is still to scare demons away.

Best and Free Halloween Wallpaper Collection

House decorations are one of the favorite parts in Halloween preparations. And technical era added some peculiarities to this tradition. Today people decorate their smartphones, laptops, and tablets with cool skins and wallpapers. Scary images and sinister photos are everywhere and often represent the favorite pop-culture characters and brands.

Artists and graphic designers let their imagination go and draw inspiration in ominous stories, urban legends, latest horror movies, and fiction. That’s how such unique wallpaper designs are born.

Here we offer you the best of the best Halloween templates, our coolest pickups of the best free Halloween wallpaper backgrounds. Any of them can be used for your own purposes since we selected only “no-attribution-required” images. The enlisted graphics and photos have high-quality resolutions to please your eyes and most of them have a few sizes to fit various screens.

We selected the most versatile designs. Pumpkins, Jack O’Lanterns, witches and cats and even the latest reincarnation of the famous story from Stephen King.

Well then… anyone wants a balloon? Enjoy!

Halloween Party Wallpaper by MotoCMS

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Creepy House Wallpaper by MotoCMS

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Purple Night Wallpaper by DesignWebKit

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Halloween Wallpaper by PureWallpaperIn

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Where Pumpkins Are Born

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Jack O Flower

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Pumpkin Wallpaper

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Thriller Night

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It Movie Wallpaper

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Top Halloween Wallpaper

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Pacman Halloween

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Free Halloween Wallpaper by Clementine Creative

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Free Halloween Wallpapers by Netmath

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Boo! Hope you have found some inspiring imagery here? Got some cool decoration for your desktop? Don’t hesitate then and dress up your device in some spooky costume! And swear to me that if It isn’t dead you’ll all come back here the next year!

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Here are both funny and fearful Halloween jokes we have rounded up for our readers! Let’s create our jolly holiday spirit together! Enjoy the set and share it with your buddies!

Meet the Best Halloween Jokes

When Witches go Halloweening

Anger management

Source: Halloweenjokes.net

Democratic Halloween Joke

Halloween party

Candy Corn

Source: Kingdomofleo.com

Belated Halloween

Vampires

Halloween is coming

Jack o’lantern

Mummy’s nightmare

Scare Spray

Ghost therapy

Suck your blood

Vampires sleep all day

Vampire community

Neighbour’skids

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All Hallows’ Eve is approaching, so it’s about time to put together a roundup of the scariest Halloween websites to tickle your nerves. Whether you’re seeking Halloween templates, Halloween costume ideas, Halloween decorations or scary movies to spend a spooky evening at home, here are a few suggestions you might like.

IT Movie

Source: IT

“IT”, the latest supernatural horror movie based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel has been critically acclaimed. It’s not recommended to watch for people having coulrophobia, the fear of clowns since Pennywise the Dancing Clown is one of the main characters of the story. Visiting the movie’s website will be none the less scary. Taking a 360 Cinematic VR tour down the sewers of Derry will be an immersive experience making you feel like one of the movie heroes. The website contains a collection of movie teasers and trailers. Also, in the masonry gallery on the homepage, you can see the on-set photography and HQ screencaps from the movie.

Fangoria

Source: Fangoria

Up next in our Halloween websites collection is a website for true horror lovers. Fangoria is an artsy online portal dedicated to horror pop culture. Originated from a paper magazine, Fangoria website has an attractive pop-art styled design. It contains insights on horror history and exclusive interviews with the creators and stars of classic horror films as well as provides the coverage of new productions. Here you will find a book and comic, game and toy, movie reviews, mixtapes and a lot more.

Creepy Pasta

Source: Creepy Pasta

If you want to give your guests a good fright at a Halloween party, Creepy Pasta is the go-to website. Being one of the spookiest Halloween websites, it contains tons of hair-raising content. Frightening urban legends, stories of supernatural, living dead, vampires, tales from the grave and whatnot. Owing to the willing horror tale contributors, Creepy Pasta is frequently updated. To make things creepier, people share their own real-life scary experiences and stories.

Bloody Disgusting

Source: Bloody Disgusting

If you’re bored on All Saints’ Eve, check out Bloody Disgusting. It is a full-blown all things horror portal which has a selection of movies, TV shows, scary videos, podcasts, video game reviews etc. This resource is capable of chasing the boredom away. Also, it has a forum where horror fans can communicate and sell, trade or buy horror culture related artifacts. If you want more of Bloody Disgusting, there are several social media profiles you can follow to get the latest updates on what’s new in the world of horror.

Real Ghost Stories Online

Source: Real Ghost Stories Online

Real Ghost Stories Online is a radio show with interviews, real-life experiences with ghosts told on air and written supernatural stories sent by listeners from all over the world. People who have had paranormal experiences of any kind are encouraged to share them without fear of being judged. Real Ghost Stories can be the soundtrack of your Halloween party if you want to frighten your guests do death.

How To Build a Halloween Website?

In case you are feeling inspired by the above examples and want to create a Halloween website on your own, check out a few useful resources. There is no need to be a professional web designer to build a scary Halloween website from scratch. Try using drag-and-drop MotoCMS 3.0 website builder. Being an intuitive website building software, it allows mixing and matching the design elements without touching a line of programming code.

Halloween MotoCMS 3.0 Template

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Using a Halloween MotoCMS 3.0 template with blog functionality will result in a professional-looking website with minimum efforts made. 100% responsive design of the template guarantees that your website will look consistent on different screen sizes and resolutions. The handy drag-and-drop editor will allow creating new web page sections as well as manage widgets and adjust settings.

Presets Builder feature will be helpful in modifying the widgets that come packed with the theme. Enliven your Hallowe’en website with Slider and Audio Player widgets and make your content more interactive. MotoCMS 3.0 Halloween template is SEO-ready which means its code is optimized in compliance with Google guidelines. Creating SEO-friendly blog posts and spreading the word of your spooky website in search engines will be possible due to blog functionality.

Choosing a nice and scary website template is only a half of the way. Now, you need to give your website a truly Halloween feel. There is no better way to do that than by throwing in some spine-chilling UI elements.

Halloween Websites Icon Set

Source: CreativeMarket

The devil is in the details, so start with a Halloween Icon Set to spookify your website design. Select among 12 outline icons in four color schemes and a Halloween pattern in 3 color schemes to adjust them to the look of your resource.

Brain Melt Layered Typeface

Source: CreativeMarket

To create an ambiance of horror, choose Brain Melt Layered Typeface with a hint of a zombie apocalypse. This pop-art inspired typeface can be used for both serious and funny concepts. Brain Melt has OTF and TTF versions.

Halloween Websites Illustration Kit

Source: CreativeMarket

If you want to throw in a little something to make the overall design look scarier, try using Halloween Illustration Kit. It contains 40 hand-drawn vector shapes and 9 colorful watercolor washes for texture creation. Also, this kit ships with 19 landscape elements including a haunted house and graveyard scenes to add up to suspense.

There’s no better way to add suspense to your website design than by using Halloween themed web backgrounds. For instance, you could use

Gold Halloween Digital Paper

Source: CreativeMarket

Gold Halloween Digital Paper to create unique looking web page backgrounds which will give a frightening holiday vibe. All it takes is to use a set of 18 original HQ Halloween digital papers imitating the faux gold foil. Owing to the ornate pattern and exquisite design.

Big Halloween Websites Set

Source: CreativeMarket

And, if you prefer cartoonish Halloween designs, you should definitely try a Big Halloween Set which contains all kinds of EPS, JPG, PNG illustrations and patterns to create arrangements of any complexity.

So, what are you going to do at Halloween? Are you throwing a party, watching movies or visiting a haunted mansion in the neighborhood? Seems like there are plenty of options from having fun to website creation. Hopefully, this year’s All Hallows’ Eve will be the one to remember! Do you know of other cool and scary websites to sneak a peek at? Feel free to share in comments!

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Specially for this holiday, we’ve selected the roundup of humorous and striking Halloween pumpkins. In our set you’ll find Jack o’ lanterns with social symbolics and mysterious cartoon styled pumpkins. Moreover, below the showcase we present the detailed instruction how to carve your own impressive Halloween symbol.

Apple-logo pumpkin

Powerful and enigmatic pumpkin shaped as an Apple logotype. It will be one of the most memorable Halloween creations and one more way to give tribute to Steve Jobs.

WordPress Halloween pumpkin

Halloween orange WordPress pumpkin on a dark background looks like a secret door handle into a mystic ghost’s world. If such a cool creation will be shown on your window or threshold your neighbours at a glance understood that you are a WordPress fan.

Twitter Jack o’ lantern

What Halloween party can be without Twitter? We need it to connect with friends and also to surprise them when they visit us and see this unusual social pumpkin It’ll be cool if every member of the company brings his own Halloween craft-work to make a contest for the best Twitter Jack o’lantern.

Angry bird pumpkin

Everybody likes Angry birds, so everybody will like Jack o’ lantern with the carved birdie. Put the candle into a pumpkin and make it alive

Google Chrome pumpkin

The Google Chrome logo carved on the bright-orange pumpkin. Click to the picture which leads to the steps of making the Halloween attribute.

Emoticon geeky-pumpkin

Source: Stylisheve
Such emoticon Halloween decoration will be a centrepiece of your party. It won’t cost you much money,all you need is only patience and diligence.

Halloween Mario pumpkin

This fictional character came from his video games specially to congratulate us with Halloween. So, trick or treat?

Windows 7

Windows 7 lovers can use this pretty example and create their own pumpkin artwork. You can also bring it along to your party if you are working in Windows 7 team.

Drupal Halloween Pumpkin

This Drupal Jack o’lantern is worth showing to your colleagues, friends and clients. Making such an original pumpkin is a good and unobtrusive way to promote this open source content management platform. The advertisement will be really viral and unobtrusive. Don’t you believe? Just try

Tux penguin pumpkin

This cartoon character is used in many various Linux programs as a general symbol of Linux. Why not utilize Tux as your Halloween decoration?

Cat-Themed Pumpkins

These beautiful Halloween creations inspire to make our own Jack o’ lanterns. Pumpkin with the black cat was made by using electric carving blade and fish skeleton pumpkin is illuminated with a red lantern. Halloween amazing artworks give us the idea that we can use lamp of different colors to light up our festive attributes.

Office 10 Halloween pumpkin

This modern “Office 10 Jack o’lantern” brings a happy spirit of Halloween to all Microsoft Office fans

How to carve an eye-catching Halloween pumpkin

After a close look at all these Halloween creations I have a great desire to carve my own Halloween decoration. I think I’m not alone, so let’s make our Halloween pumpkin together. We can do it easily without buying expensive accessories. All we need are only a pumpkin, sharp knife or pumpkin-carving saw, spoon, some paints, cool stencil to draw a freaky face and candle to illuminate your design.

First step. Choose a fresh pumpkin in a round or oval shape that fits to your needs.

Source: Hybridrastamama.blogspot.com

Second step. Draw the circle on the top of the pumpkin to prepare the space for your hand to reach through. Then cut via the stem end and use to and fro motions to cut down the tough skin.

Source: Sikhism.about.com

Third step. Pull the steam gently to remove the top. With the large spoon scrape away any seeds and pulp.

Source: Gingerbreadsnowflakes.com

Fourth step. Sketch the face of your Jack o’lantern on the clean pumpkin. It would be better if you practice on a paper at first. You can draw the picture with the help of pencil, pen or water-resistant marker, make sure all details are large enough to cut out small features.

Source: Instructables.com

Fifth step. Now it comes time to cut out your design. Follow the sketch while you cut the face, then push the cut-out parts from the inside of a pumpkin. To keep your Halloween pumpkin fresh, coat the cut edges with oil.

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The ending step. Place the candle inside the carved pumpkin to illuminate Jack o’lantern and create a mystic fire.

Source: Mimaggie.com

Pumpkins can be carved with comical or scary faces, it depends only on your Halloween pattern. So choose the sketch and go ahead! Good luck

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