Halloween Pop-Up Chain Brings Stores Back to Life

Like something out of a horror tale, an abandoned store in Paramus, N.J. has come back to life as a Halloween retailer. Spirit Halloween, a chain of more than 1,150 pop-up shops across the country, has reincarnated a former Staples store and filled it with 4,000 costumes and accessories, with themes ranging from zombies to superheroes and princesses to prison inmates. And gory displays: a zombie-filled subway, a swamp surrounded by bloody and screaming animated creatures.