Spooky pendants in season

This ceramic skull pendant created by Julie Essex Perry of Once in a Blue Moon combines two of my favorite things: Halloween and Mexican folk art. The colorful curlicues and other designs that decorate the piece are characteristic of the sugar skulls sold in Mexican markets to commemorate Dia de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead. If wearing a skull, even one as pretty as this, around your neck seems a bit ghoulish, Julie offers other pendants decorated with whimsical skeletons, witches and candy corn, and also makes jewelry for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holidays. Find her at the Hale Koa Hotel in Waikiki every Monday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and at craft fairs, or email her at onceinabluemoon@hotmail.com. The skull pendant sells for $14.

— Christie Wilson

Chocolates are to die for

The limited-edition Godiva Devilish Delights collection of chocolates is as much eerie art as it is delicious decadence. With glittering, air-brushed designs, the truffles come in four flavors: Caramel Apple Tombstone, Almond Butter Bat, Death by Chocolate Skull and Marshmallow Ghost. The collection of six chocolates sells at Godiva boutiques at Ala Moana (951-4824) and Waikele (677-5001) for $15 or $2.50 individually.

— Donica Kaneshiro

Picture yourself undead

MotionPortrait Inc.’s Zombie Booth is a timely app for iPhone, Android, iPad 2 and fourth-generation iPod Touch. It lets you see how your family, friends and even the family pet would look as zombies, without going into the whole brain-eating mess.

More than just a static photo, your zombie will growl, scowl, shake and raise an unholy cacophony of sounds. Press a button and they’ll go into a frenzy. Photos can be saved and shared via email, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Touch the screen and the zombie will bite your finger, leaving splatters of virtual blood.

The full version is 99 cents in the Apple App Store. Zombie Booth Lite is the free ad-supported version.

If you’ve always found the slow-moving zombies in TV and film laughable, this app will change your mind about your odds of surviving a close encounter with the walking dead.

— Nadine Kam

Baked goods are designed to scare

It’s time for scary spiders and witches’ fingers, and now you can eat them, too. The Great Harvest Bread Co. in Kailua (261-8300) is offering baked cinnamon chip spiders fresh out of the oven (also available in whole wheat) along with thick witches’ fingers, which come completely green with almond fingernails (ideal for dipping into a red jam or syrup). These tasty treats should get you in the mood for Halloween plus fill you up for the evening. The baked spiders are available for $10.95 and a hand (five witches fingers) for $6.50. Spiders and witches’ fingers are also available at the Merchant Street location (587-0017), while the Kahala location (735-8810) will offer fingers (call each location to check on availability and pricing). Place your orders by Oct. 28 and pick up by Oct. 30.

— Nina Wu

Classical sounds creepy on ‘Crypt’ CD

You can get all sorts of spooky-sounds CDs to play for Halloween, but seriously, what are you going to listen to on the other 364 days of the year? The answer is to go classical. The Romantic Era in classical music, spilling over into the tonal experiments of the early 20th century, was a period of intense emotionalism and literary referencing, which means a fair number of compositions cheerfully leaned macabre. We’re talking Bach’s “Toccata & Fugue in D minor” on the early end (a “Phantom of the Opera” shout-out) and Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” on the recent end, with seminal works like “Danse Macabre,” “Night on Bald Mountain,” “Mephisto Waltz,” “The Hall of the Mountain King” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” in between.

All of these and more are collected on the RCA Victor music CD “Classics from the Crypt,” featuring collated recordings courtesy of Eugene Ormandy’s Philadelphia Orchestra and Arthur Fiedler’s Boston Pops. The recordings are full-sounding and sonically gorgeous, and while they lean toward the spooky side, the music is timeless.

Alas, the CD was issued in the ’90s and may be hard to find. Try half.com and eBay, and it’s listed as available at Amazon.com for $8.74.

— Burl Burlingame