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Halloween and Spookiness in Salem
When did people start capitalizing on jump scares and spookiness for commercial game? One of the early examples is actually Salem, you know, of which trial fame in the 1890s already. You can probably look at Salem as being in the vanguard of dealing of commercializing both Halloween and the idea of spookiness as fun.
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