Halloween is one of the most fun times of the year at Zappos, because everyone goes out of their way to make the entire week one big event. The finale of the week is the Zappos haunted house. Each year Zappos turns part of the office into a giant haunted house, and invites employees children, vendors and other visitors to take part in the festivities. Thank you everyone who helped make the entire week long event a big success.

One of the best things about Halloween is all the great candy you get. With Halloween this week, we decided to go around the office and asked some employees, "What is your favorite Halloween candy?"

The other day at the Rdesk Jeff found a box full of good ole' Halloween goodies. Fortunately for the growing needs of our own personal amusement, Jeff found some temporary tattoos to satiate Abby N.'s hunger for “cool, new things”. You see, Abby really loves “cool, new things”. She also loves “shiny, new things” – I think you get the idea. The debate surrounding Abby's tastes has continued for years, nay centuries, nay millennia, nay – forever.

I'm sorry, I allowed myself to be sidetracked. You see, when I ponder Abby my mind goes fuzzy and my reality seems to swirl into the never-ending sinkhole of my sub par comprehension for the way Abby works. I love Abby. She is my Michael McDonald. She forced my love for him, my love for her. So, let me return from this ridiculous, yet oddly enlightening tangent that I find myself on, and deliver to you my original message, which was to display for you Abby's “sleeve” of temporary tattoos.

Zappos behold! And now, from Abby herself, as she tries to give an explanation for this madness:

“SO...We were looking through the goody bag for the Halloween treats and noticed a lot of unused temporary tattoos. First, Alicia said I should make a sleeve of temporary tattoos to achieve a life long goal of mine to become Rob Reynolds. Jeff over heard and he decided to make a fun dollar challenge to make the temporary tattoo sleeve on my left arm. I used my apprentice Nick B. to assist me in the applying of the tattoos. When Nick had to leave at 5:00pm, I asked for the help of Alicia, Steve T. and Eric L., all of whom assisted me brilliantly. When we were applying the tattoos, a thought ran through my mind saying, "why?" Then I remembered, " O yeah, I can be Rob." It was very sticky and a whole lot of fun. Now my arm feels like it has eczema. Brilliant! Now, all I need is a head rag and severe ROCKER skills to achieve my goal of being Rob Reynolds.”

Abby, we love you. Salute!

The KY team wanted to share their favorite core values with you! Its a Special Halloween Version.

Zappy Zalloween!

Please note: The King was not injured in the making of this video. Rest Assured!

On Wednesday, Halloween came a bit early in the Zappos Headquarters, but it is very "Zappos" of us to do things a little out of the norm.

Every team was encouraged to decorate their area of the office however they see fit for this spooktacular event. Creative services made a mini haunted house for our Trick-or-Treating visitors complete with slimy, creepy bowls of old lady skin, eye balls, baby poop, brains, blood, alien babies, zombie teeth, worms, and guts. Who doesn't like sticking their hands in a tub of eye balls!?!

The Comfort Team made a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fun zone full of sugar and spice and everything that kids look forward to all year long - tubs, and tubs of candy.

The Legal Team made their own crime-free city with the center of it being "The Hall of Justice." They were all super heros, so they fit in quite nicely with their overall theme.

At 4PM, the offices were opened up for trick-or-treaters, and 300 little ones came dressed up and ready for candy! We didn't get any video or pics because that's WAY too many parents to have sign release forms....but trust us, they were here! : )

Here is a video of the madness that is Zappos Halloween!

It wouldn't be Halloween without a Jack-o-Lantern on our doorsteps, and that rule goes for Inside Zappos as well. On top of having Halloween decoration competitions, and prizes for the best costume, we battled it out in the pumpkin carving and painting department as well.

The winners of this years Pumpkin Carve-off are:
1st place: Josiah B.
2nd place: Nikki S.
3rd place: Karen S.

And in Pumpkin Painting:
1st place: Anastasia P.
2nd place: John F.

Way to ward off the haunting spirits of this All Hallows Eve.

This year marks our fourth annual Halloween Costume Contest here at our Las Vegas offices, and it's another crazy one! We take this very seriously, and literally, more than half of the company dresses up!

Here at Zappos.com, we take our holidays very seriously. And every day leading up to Halloween, the office begins to look more and more like a huge spider has been spinning a web and Gargoyles and Huge Bats frighten all those that enter any of the buildings.

Make no mistake, Zappos takes dressing up and decoration seriously. Halloween here will be celebrated next week, and the entire company will dress up. Trust me. You will be amazed. It's not required, it doesn't need to be. You'll see : )

Last week on the Kids’ Content Team, we weren’t really feeling the Halloween spirit. So, we decided to do something about it and what better way to get that fall feeling then having a pumpkin decorating contest?!

So, we all went home with dancing pumpkins in our heads and spent hours upon hours hunched over our masterpieces. Monday morning we all proudly displayed our squash centerpieces. We needed a judge, so we outsourced Bob from the Outdoor Content Team. Bob pondered over each and every carefully crafted pumpkin until he finally came to a decision <drum roll, please>

EVERYONE WINS!! We all erupted in cheers and overall jubilation. Nowadays the Halloween spirit is high on the Kids’ Content Team and we are all eagerly anticipating a ghoulish good time next week!