What is Halloween really, but an anthropological cross section of the last calendar year?

Peruse the streets as children trick-or-treat or squeeze your way through crowded parties and, sure, you’ll see freaky lawn fare in jack-o’-lanterns and 12-foot-tall skeletons and decorative odes to the odd and occult, but all anyone really cares about are the costumes.

To whet your appetite for people-watching on the most thematic night of the year, we’ll get a preview of what costumes you might see out and about this Halloween with Google’s Top 5 trending costume ideas in Seattle this year.

Creepy, creative, topical and hobbled together like a witch’s brew with equal parts thrift store magic, hot glue and duct tape, Halloween costumes are an individual assessment of what captured the cultural zeitgeist in the last year or what might catch people’s eye.

Or, you know, whatever get-up you think you might be able to scrounge together from your closet last-minute to resurrect some unholy Frankenstein of procrastinated…