This is Cheeseman Fright Farm, one of those
stylish Halloween attractions that emerge from
the shadows in the United States of America when
the leaves start falling and the days grow shorter.
On this night, it is the place to be: By 8:45 p.m.,
a line 400 strong — some wearing face masks,
some not — waits, at $20 a pop, to be carted off
into the darkness and have creatures in various
stages of decay leap out at them for the better
part of an hour.