Celebrate all month with entertainment events

Can we just do away with this whole pretense that Halloween is on the last day of October? It has pretty much become an every-day-in-October holiday. And with early birds putting their inflatable ghosts, corn-stalk-stuffed scarecrows and bigger-than-life-sized skeletons on their lawns as soon as the post-Labor Day cool breezes arrive, Halloween is now more or less one sprawling fall festival.

Sure, there’s the risk of overdosing on scary stuff when it lasts half the season. A big upside is that arts-and-entertainment events turn just a little darker. With the days taking that exact same turn away from the light, the confluence of the atmospheric and artistic shadows creates its own evocative magic.

These Halloween-y arts-and-entertainment events in Vermont might just lure you over to the dark side. The season is brimming over so much the fun overlaps into September and November.

‘Darkness Falls’ on Queen City Ghost Walk

7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 26, plus Wednesday, Oct. 30 and Thursday, Oct. 31, Thea Lewis resumes her Queen City Ghost Walk “Darkness Falls” tours that, as the event’s website says, features “some of Burlington’s most infamous characters and intriguing haunts; theater ghosts, smugglers, serial killers, and more.” $25. www.queencityghostwalk.com