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Ghost-lined walkways and a glowing stick man light up Halloween night

Trick-or-treaters waited for dusk Saturday, then filled Marblehead’s side streets as the light faded

,   and  Katie Ring
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Trick-or-treaters gather at a candy table on a lawn in front of a shingled house lit with purple and orange lights
Purple and orange lights glow on a Pickwick Road home as trick-or-treaters stop for candy on Halloween night. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING

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Marblehead’s trick-or-treaters took their time Saturday. Most of the costumes didn’t come out until close to dark, and the last of the light went quickly.

On Pickwick Road, families walked down the middle of the street, parents pushed strollers, and hedges and porches glowed purple and orange. Elsewhere, paper ghosts lit the walkway to the Fitzgerald family’s front door, Scottie and Lindsey Smith went as a cop and a robber, and Bryson Allen made the rounds as a glowing stick figure.

Not everyone was out collecting candy. On Shetland Road, neighbors pulled chairs around a fire pit while ghosts and jack-o’-lanterns played across an outdoor screen.

Independent photographer Katie Ring followed the evening from the last of the daylight into the dark.

A woman in a red sweatsuit stands with two girls in matching sequined costumes and a shaggy white dog on a sidewalk
Members of the Morin family, a mother, her two daughters and the family dog, set out for trick-or-treating. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
Costumed children walk down a tree-lined residential street at dusk
Trick-or-treaters head down the middle of Pickwick Road as dusk falls. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
Three boys in costumes, one in red, one in a green Mike Wazowski suit and one holding a camera, pose on a lawn
Three friends dressed as a crab, Mike Wazowski from “Monsters, Inc.” and a photographer pose in front of a row of inflatable jack-o’-lanterns. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
A family of four with orange candy pails stands on a stone walkway in front of a white house
The Fitzgerald family stands on the walkway of their home, lined with glowing paper ghosts. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
A girl in a purple princess gown carries an orange pail down a walkway lined with paper ghost lanterns
A young Rapunzel makes her way down the Fitzgeralds’ ghost-lined walkway as trick-or-treaters gather at the door. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
A boy in a Luigi costume walks down a sidewalk with two friends at dusk
Brady Ring, dressed as Luigi, makes the rounds with friends as the streetlights come on. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
A girl dressed as a police officer stands beside a woman in a striped prisoner costume in front of a house
Scottie and Lindsey Smith go as a cop and a robber. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
Two trick-or-treaters, one in a clown mask and one in a glowing mask, walk across a dark lawn
Oisin Clery and Jack Ingersol, one in a clown mask and the other in a glowing mask, cross a darkened lawn. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
Neighbors sit in Adirondack chairs around a fire pit on a front lawn beside a screen showing Halloween images
Neighbors on Shetland Road gather around a fire pit as ghosts and jack-o’-lanterns play across an outdoor screen. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
A child in a dark suit outlined in glowing blue lights stands in a driveway at night
Bryson Allen glows as a stick man. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
A woman in a pink outfit holds a toddler in a white snowman costume on a porch
Jimmy Tower, dressed as Olaf, gets a lift from neighbor Jessie Achterhof, dressed as Barbie. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
Families with strollers, a bicycle and costumed children move down a street at night
Families push strollers and walk with costumed children down Pickwick Road after dark. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING

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