…Halloween in modern times has evolved from a merging of its early Christianity roots with secular horror novels like Frankenstein and Dracula. The dark and evil connotation associated with the skull emanates from the early Christian concept of Golgotha,

"a reminder of death and the transitory quality of human life" and is consequently found in memento mori and vanitas compositions; skulls have therefore been commonplace in Halloween, which touches on this theme. Traditionally, the back walls of churches are "decorated with a depiction of the Last Judgment, complete with graves opening and the dead rising, with a heaven filled with angels and a hell filled with devils" (Leslie n.d.)…