I agree there's a market for year round Halloween. The Christmas store here has a Halloween section year round. Even with WalMart and discount chains cutting prices there should be a market. The trick would be to carry really neat and unusual items they don't carry. Jim Shore has some great Halloween stuff. Not something you find at WalMart. uuuuum, Kurt Adler used to have decent Halloween stuff. Rubies costumes has neat partyware and stuff and again not something you'd find at WalMart. If you can get some local artists to craft some things........there's a store up north that is mostly Santas. One of a Kind Santas and people pay a lot for them. I don't see why the same couldn't be done for Halloween. You might want to save up the money and do some research and maybe order a little stock here and there because a lot of businesses are closing right now. I think it's really hard to start anything new at present.