Halloween is coming, and the urge to decorate a pumpkin, throw a party, or just arrange a ghoulish flower arrangement for the entry hall table is upon me. Halloween is the most unserious holiday there is, and that’s why I love it. It is the best opportunity of the year to embrace your inner child: dress in costume, eat too much candy, get silly, and take a night off from the very solemn business of being an adult.

Here are a few fall flower arrangements to help make your All Hallows’ Eve a little more special.

Pom Bronze Daisy in brass chalice

Orange Gomphrena in chased brass cup

Mixed arrangement of mums, dahlias, blue viburnum berries, blue thistle, poppy pods and rose hips.

Asclepias pods with foliage in black pitcher

Dusty Miller, black calla lilies and silver berzillia berries in stone urn

Red Dahlias in black London vase

Ornamental black peppers, sea grass, sweet potato vine, bugle weed and black pansies in aluminum pail