For Mental Illness, Halloween Is Still A Costume Drama

There was a time when the most popular Halloween costumes were confined to the folk lore of vampire bats and ghosts. This was undoubtedly the popular culture at a time when "horror literature" was based on novels such as Mary Shelley's Frankensteinand Bram Stoker's Dracula. Although much of this is still with us in the Trick of Treating of today, the past 50 years have a taken a more sinister turn.With the release of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest in the 1970s, mental illness appeared to become