History Main / Halloweentown

* The first series in [[Franchise/{{Ben10}} Ben 10]] had supplementary material state that [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Ghostfreak]] and other aliens designed after mummies, werewolves and Frankenstein's monster all come from a solar system of planets called the Anur System. Some of the last episodes also mentioned zombie aliens stated to be from the same system. Omniverse finally explored the place, while also introducing a species of vampire aliens, and it was perpetual night with rural Victorian bizzarchitecture.

* ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'''s bread and butter. Although it's primarily ghosts who live in the mansion, there are also giant spiders (in certain versions of the ride), animate skeletons, zombies, and even a mummy that call the mansion home. Doubly so in the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Haunted Mansion Holiday]]'' overlay.

* The TropeNamer is ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. It is the ''job'' of the inhabitants of Halloween Town to make Halloween happen each year. Halloweentown is filled to the brim with every kind of monster and scary creature you can think of. But, as they sing in their song, "That’s our job, but we’re not mean."

* The TropeNamer is ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. It is the ''job'' of the inhabitants of Halloween Town to make Halloween happen each year.

* The town of Threed in ''Videogame/EarthBound'' at least before you beat Master Belch, it features zombie dogs, zombies, ghosts, a graveyard, coffins in an underground path leading to Grapefruit falls, and even a totally blatant Halloween enemy called the Trick or Trick kid.

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Despite the somber colors and the Horror Trope decor, this setting is not always played solemnly[[note]]It's their job but they're not mean, in the town of Halloween[[/note]]. Imagine the PerkyGoth or NightmareFetishist character as a setting, and you've got this place. It's less [[{{Uberwald}} Eastern European]] and more trick or treat. Halloweentown is usually not that scary, at least not intentionally so. It's intended to be somewhat [[DarkIsNotEvil playful and fun]]. A good way to tell if a series is set in a place like this is if there are jack-o'-lanterns and it's ''not'' actually [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]], although that's not a prerequisite.

** The entirety of the ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionSeries'', where Luigi goes about in a haunted setting (a haunted mansion in the first game, multiple haunted locations in the second, and a haunted hotel in the third) hunting ghosts with a souped-up vacuum cleaner.

* The Dreaming in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' resembled this, especially early on when the series was less fantasy and more horror.

** The entirety of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' and [[VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon its sequel]], where Luigi goes about in a haunted house hunting ghosts with a souped-up vacuum cleaner.

* Underworld from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' is the closest [[AfterTheEnd the setting]] can offer. It's a settlement of [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghouls]] (in the ''Fallout'' universe, this refers to ageless {{Technically Living Zombie}}s who're usually sapient and got their condition from [[ILoveNuclearPower being massively irradiated]]) who took up residence in a museum exhibit about the afterlife, hence the name and the giant stone skull over the gate. Many of the people and places in there have names relating to death and mythological interpretations of the afterlife.

* ''VideoGame/{{Puppeteer}}'' has Hallowee-Ville.

* Certain parts of Salem, Massachusetts try SO hard to live this trope year-round. Unfortunately, the bar, or ice cream shop, or convenience next door conveniently ruins the illusion.
* St. Helens, Oregon is a good example, seeing as it was also the same place used by Disney for the Halloweentown [=DCOMs=].

* The setting of Chris Riddell's ''Goth Girl'' books. Gormless is a macabre English hamlet steeped in bizarre traditions, the heroine, Ada Goth (a parody of a young Ada Lovelace,) lives in a dark, [[BigLabyrinthineBuilding labyrinthine]], and proudly haunted mansion, and vampires, werewolves and other fantastic creatures are abound.

* Seeing as it's based on the movie, this is one of the settings in ''Manga/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasZerosJourney''.

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