Even this year, with the economy still hair-raising to many people, Halloween is tinged with green – as in cash.

In the days leading up to the scary day, the Wegmans grocery chain brings in extra candy, its bake shops turn out orange-colored cakes, and the produce department stocks up on decorative gourds and pumpkins.

On Friday night, for $20 per head, the Boston Ski and Sports Club hosted a party for 400, providing extra work for a local caterer.

And, since the beginning of October, the Arasapha Farm in Glen Mills, Pa. has been hiring actors and actresses covered with fake gore to try to scare thousands of people every night paying $12 a head (no pun intended) to tremble their way through the Bates Motel, a Victorian "haunted house."