*The heavy cardboard box on your doorstep has no return address, save for a wax seal stamped with a grinning jack-o’-lantern and a postmark reading “Halloween Town”. Inside, nestled among layers of back tissue paper and autumn leaves, is a professional-grade Jack Skellington mascot costume complete with his signature pinstripe suit, oversized white skeletal gloves, a dramatic bat bow tie with glowing white eyes, and a massive, perfectly round-foam molded skull head with stitched-up seams. As you reach down to pick up the mascot head, a muffled, theatrical voice echoes from deep within the padded suit*