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Halloween is often dismissed as a night of costumes, candy, and harmless fright-a seasonal spectacle stripped of seriousness and depth. Unknown Facts About Halloween challenges that assumption. This book reveals Halloween as one of the most enduring and adaptive rituals in human history, shaped not by superstition alone, but by recurring social, psychological, and cultural necessities. Tracing Halloween from its earliest pre-Christian origins through religious absorption, social regulation, industrial transformation, and digital reinvention, Oytun Bozkır examines the holiday as a system rather than a myth. Each chapter uncovers how Halloween has consistently served as a structured response to fear, uncertainty, death, identity instability, and the limits of social order. What appears as play is shown to be containment. What appears as chaos is revealed as maintenance. Rather than focusing on folklore trivia or familiar legends, this book explores the deeper mechanisms that allow Halloween to survive radical changes in belief systems, economies, and technologies. From masks as tools of anonymity, to fear as a controlled psychological release, to modern urban legends and digital hauntings, Halloween emerges as a ritual that societies repeatedly rely on-often without realizing why. Written in a clear, analytical, and myth-resistant narrative style, Unknown Facts About Halloween is not a nostalgic celebration nor a moral critique. It is an examination of why certain nights refuse to disappear, why fear must sometimes be permitted rather than denied, and why Halloween continues to matter in a world that claims to have outgrown it. This book is part of the Unknown Facts series, which investigates the hidden structures, overlooked realities, and deeper human functions behind familiar phenomena-revealing that what survives the longest usually does so for a reason.

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