The Best of Halloween: Reader Photos

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Reader Rhodalyn Medow submitted this adorable photo of Marlon’Jey as Bat Boy.

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Schala Guzman from Los Angeles dressed up as Facebook before the upgrades.

Reader James West III of Missouri City, Texas, writes, “The innocent ones at Halloween Dance in Houston.”

Chocolate Hair Vanilla Care sent in this photo of a 4-year-old girl in a homemade Hello Kitty costume.

Here’s Schala Guzman again dressed up as Dr. Conrad Murray, equipped with a healthy dose of propofol.

Trill Snowden of New Hampshire gives us this picture of Saniyah as Ariel Ballerina Princess. “Saniyah loves Princess Ariel and wanted to be her this Halloween. My family and friends always tell me she should be a model,” Snowden writes. 

Reader Chris Williams posted this photo of Snow White and her friends.

Edward Potter from Los Angeles sent this photo of his “little darlings,” Maya and Cammie from Portland, Ore., dressed as a witch and a princess.

At a Halloween party in Rego Park, N.Y., Karen Mauney’s grandson and his classmate pose for a picture as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz and Mario from Super Mario Bros.

Reader Nancy Jennings sent us this photo with the caption, “Our little poodle.”

The Root’s editorial intern Josh Weaver posing as an eccentric pageant dad, flanked by his overworked daughters and wife.

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