The Frankfurt police take away a protester dressed as Batman during the Gen Z Regelt movement protests that have affected the entire country. The photo could perfectly well be a comic strip panel. Photographer Kai Pfaffenbach took several portraits of this character during the night that coincided with the Halloween celebration. Some of the scenes he captured were full of epic, with a triumphant Batman emerging from the flames of the dumpsters making the victory sign with his fingers. Images that exuded a poetic drama. Traditionally, Batman has defended order in the face of chaos, but that night he was participating in the agitation and lack of control. The superhero who wants to do justice outside the law was demanding on the street improvements in education, healthcare, and social services, and protesting against the rising cost of living. But this time he didn't have the Batmobile to escape.

For years, German model Heidi Klum has become the queen of Halloween. Every time All Saints' Day arrives, Klum manages to capture media attention thanks to her penchant for dressing up in surprising and bold options. This year she has done it again with a costume of her own hand. It is an immense limb, nearly two meters tall – Klum is 1.77m and was wearing heels – which reproduces the model's left hand, amputated at the wrist, bloodied and full of viscera. In this way, she appeared at her traditional Halloween party (dubbed Heidiween), which took place this Saturday at the Cathédrale restaurant at the Moxy East Village Hotel in New York.

At the Pień cemetery, Poland, the dead were forbidden to return; the living made sure of it. Local residents buried their relatives face down, with heavy stones placed on the body, arms, neck, or between the thighs, and with chains on their ankles or sickles at their necks. All this to prevent vampires, the undead, or creatures of the night from returning to bring plagues and diseases. The first undead appears in fiction with The Vampyre by John William Polidori in 1819, decades before Bram Stoker’s celebrated Dracula (1897). In the reality of Eastern Europe, however, the Slavic word was used a century earlier. In 1725, the Austrian newspaper Wienerisches Diarium already mentioned vampires to describe medical reports of alleged cases of the undead in Serbia and Hungary.

We are at the threshold of the first of the dates with which the school calendar is dotted with holidays that we call “traditional”. This festive calendar begins with the Castanyada, and in this first stage we are already faced with a first contradiction that we must resolve.

Autumn transforms the Ebro Delta. The rice fields change color after the harvest, the wetlands regain prominence with the passage of migratory birds, and the sunsets offer an especially characteristic light. Autumn is an excellent season for a getaway to the Ebro Delta, as it allows you to discover it while enjoying a very pleasant temperature. On foot or cycling quietly among the rice fields, or enjoying nautical activities along the river, which is the artery that connects a territory that never ceases to surprise.

As October 31st approaches, two camps emerge: those who are dying to pull their costumes out of the closet to celebrate Halloween, and those who prefer to stay home eating panellets, chestnuts, and sweet potatoes. In Montcada i Reixac, there are all sorts of people, but it seems the scales tip towards the spooky celebrations: when Halloween arrives, an entire neighborhood transforms into a movie set worthy of... Nightmare on Elm StreetThe houses in the Terra Nostra neighborhood are filled with pumpkins, haunted tunnels, door-to-door screams and sugared almonds, and above all, a chilling atmosphere.