A panther jack-o'-lantern is shown in this image.
Bryan Y. Fischer from Towson, MD shows off his 'Wallace and Gromit' jack-o'-lanterns. Bryan Y. Fischer
The Houdini jack-o'-lantern in San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 30. Send us your own photos of carved pumpkins using the link below, or email them to csm.pumpkins@gmail.com By sending photos, you'll be agreeing to our terms of service. Tom Interval
Baby Katie in Madison, Wis peers into a newly-hollow pumpkin.
Pumpkins carved by artists Ray Villafane and Andy Bergholtz are displayed during a pumpkin carving exhibition in the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Oct. 26. The pumpkins will be displayed at Heidi Klum's Halloween party and other Halloween events at the TAO and LAVO nightclubs in Las Vegas. Steve Marcus/Reuters
Randy Voigt from Arizona has created this oversize pumpkin from chicken wire, PVC, and 64 yards of orange fabric. Send us your own photos of carved pumpkins using the link below, or email them to csm.pumpkins@gmail.com By sending photos, you'll be agreeing to our terms of service. Randy Voigt
Reader Elizabeth Braun Andreini shows off some rather cheerful jack-o-lanterns in Naples, Fla. Send us your own photos of carved pumpkins using the link below, or email them to csm.pumpkins@gmail.com By sending photos, you'll be agreeing to our terms of service. Elizabeth Braun Andreini
Reader Brian Sullivan carved this American Gothic pumpkin for Thanksgiving last year. Send us your own photos of carved pumpkins using the link below, or email them to csm.pumpkins@gmail.com By sending photos, you'll be agreeing to our terms of service. Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan shows off his Wizard of Oz themed pumpkins. Send us your own photos of carved pumpkins using the link below, or email them to csm.pumpkins@gmail.com By sending photos, you'll be agreeing to our terms of service. Brian Sullivan
Took this photo In front of my house in Cambridge, N.Y. A rural dairy farm area. Send us your own photos of carved pumpkins using the link below, or email them to csm.pumpkins@gmail.com By sending photos, you'll be agreeing to our terms of service. Rich Broderick
Four pumpkins: Garrett Holcombe's 'man in the moon,' second from left, with Amber McLean's 'ghost,' Amber Hallman's 'Jack Skellington,' and Jerry Witt's 'Green Bay Jack-O-Lantern.' Garrett Holcombe, Woodstock, Ga
Glassy Jack: We live near the beach and I scour it often for sea glass. I haven't gotten around to carving a real pumpkin yet, but I make creations from the sea glass I found. This morning Glassy Jack came out of the sea glass! Tracy Jenkins, Goleta, Calif.
Our pumpkin has a pretty bad underbite. Send us your own photos of carved pumpkins using the link below, or email them to csm.pumpkins@gmail.com By sending photos, you'll be agreeing to our terms of service. Rob Getzschman, Los Angeles, Calif.
This was carved by my roommate, Brandon. It is on my table in Port Townsend, WA. Port Townsend is a wonderful small 'victorian' town on the Olympic Peninsula NW Washington. Send us your own photos of carved pumpkins using the link below, or email them to csm.pumpkins@gmail.com By sending photos, you'll be agreeing to our terms of service. Julia Cochrane / Brandon
A pumpkin sits on a fence at the top of Maxwell Hill Road in Beckley W.Va., Sept. 19. Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald/AP
The 'Bicycle Girl' from the 'Walking Dead' is one of Jake Gibson's carved pumpkins in Brownwood, Texas, on Oct. 5. Joy Lewis/The Abilene Reporter-News/AP
A smiling Jack-o-lantern is seen in this 2007 file photo. Newscom/File
A tarantula crawls on a carved pumpkin in the Tropical Aquarium in Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, Germany, in this October 2008 file photo. Newscom/File
A Jack-o-lantern is seen in this 2010 file photo. Newscom/File
A carved pumpkin is seen at Hudson Valley's biggest Halloween event which features more than 4,000 individually hand-carved, illuminated Jack-o-lanterns, in New York, in this 2010 file photo. L.Gallo/WENN.com/Newscom/File
While the German economy is being held up as the model for ailing Europe to follow, some Germans say that the benefits of the boom aren't reaching them.
When President Obama stood in Berlin today and said that budget balancing must not trump the priority of improving lives, some saw a dig at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has led the call for austerity across Europe.
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