‘Tis the Season for Ghosts, Goblins and Ghouls

Boo! Halloween City has come to Hillsborough.

Halloween City has taken over part of the space Pathmark formerly occupied in Hillsborough Promenade at the intersection of Route 206 and Falcon Road.

The store, which will remain open through Nov. 2, features everything to make Halloween frightfully delightful, from costumes, masks and props to party accessories and the most ghoulish decorations.

The Hillsborough location is one of more than 400 stores opened just for the season, said Halloween City Director of Marketing Don Rose. The company, which has been in business since 1977, expects to hire 15-25 temporary employees at the local store.

After all, Rose explained, Halloween is the second largest holiday celebrated in America, with $6 billion in revenue.

As strains of such seasonal favorites as “Ghostbusters” and “Monster Mash” fill the air, shoppers find themselves in a world of ghosts, goblins, ghouls, super heroes, princesses and television characters.

For those who want to transform their peaceful homes into houses of horror, Halloween City offers such dreadful décor as smoke and fog machines (complete with remote controls and timers), larger-than-life-sized figures (there’s a clown with a ghoulish laugh and huge ghosts with terror-filled faces), tombstones, caldrons of all sizes, a broom that moves and cackles, gigantic spiders, cobwebs, hanging bats and snakes and much more.

Halloween wouldn’t be complete without costumes and Halloween City has a wide assortment for adults and children alike, from frightening figures to movie/television characters and princesses and fairies.

“There’s everything for everybody in the family,” said Rose, including wigs, colored hairspray, makeup and all the accessories (after all, doesn’t every monster need a bloody sword?).

Rose expects this season’s hot sellers to be “Gamers,” such as Mario & Luigi and Angry Birds, costumes based on television series such as Glee and, as he noted, “You can’t go wrong with the zombies and Dracula.”

There are even costumes for pets – imagine a dog in a cowboy or Headless Horseman outfit – as well as all the accessories to make your Halloween party a horrifying hit.

Visitors to Halloween City are invited to join the email list and become entered to win an iPad2, with one being awarded nationally each day.