The Best Halloween Kitchen Decor

Ah, the Halloween spread. Whether you’re dressing a dinner table for eight people or carving out a festive spot on your kitchen island, some of the best Halloween decorations come in the form of tablescaping items. This durable, plastic serving tray of kindly skeletons — which is free of all the actually scary stuff like BPA plastic — is ready to serve up everything from cookies to main courses. And there’s a timeless, Masterpiece Mystery! element to artist John Derian’s designs.

Love Halloween, punch, and Motörhead? Meet your new, skeletal drink dispenser stand for the season. The fact that the boney hands are made out of a sturdy, antique-finished metal is also a nice touch.

Here’s our multi-beverage layout proposal: Bring home Pottery Barn’s smoky, skull motif drinking glasses, because they’re handmade out of durable soda lime glass (meaning, Brad from Finance can’t crack it), and dishwasher safe.

Serve your cocktail of choice in West Elm’s sultry black coupes. They’re like the Elvira of glassware, and sure will look great on your bar cart.

It’s just nice to see home bar beer glasses that don’t rely on, say, a fake collegiate seal motif. This versatile, slithering set from West Elm is perfect for serving up IPAs as well as cocktails or sodas with blood-red bitters.

Top off your drink-scaping with some sturdy, brass cobwebs from Anthropology. (Take notes on durability, Charlotte.)

I don’t think we hype up cloth napkins enough. They’re softer to the touch than your Brawny roll (and last longer, too), more environmentally-friendly, and, as with this set, can make you feel like a crystal ball and a medieval astrologer could appear at any moment.

Lodge has been crafting cast-iron skillets in Tennessee since 1896, so it has kind of perfected the art of the unfussy, pre-seasoned frying pan. The heritage cookware brand collaborated with artist Lordes Villagómez on this dia de los muertos-inspired skillet, whose intricate candy skull design deserves a place on your hanging rack year-round.

Don’t call them just any old cheese knives. These “black sculptural tools,” as CB2 aptly describes them, look almost as if they walked out of the Noguchi Museum gift shop. There’s also a nice weight to the trio’s handles, which will make slicing hearty cheeses a breeze.

Cooking for two? Staub also has a 24-ounce pumpkin cocotte duo — one for you, and one for the ghost of your choice.

The “Hand of Glory” is a Halloween motif with some deep and disturbing lore (TL;DR, it’s a dead person’s hand! It’s on fire!), and this black hand-shaped candle from Amazon is the perfect tabletop manifestation for the creepy lore.

It’s the attention to detail of this ghostly set (no two ghosts are alike) that makes it such a memorable lighting choice. For about $14 a piece, you can present an entire family of ghosts to your dinner guests — or perhaps pepper them throughout your kitchen. Be warned: As one reviewer writes, they’re so cute that you’ll be tempted not to light them up. “[They] look so good I’m not sure I have it in me to burn them. Immediate emotional attachment.”

We know SSENSE is beloved for its Rick Owens discounts and Godspell-meets-Dimes Square indie brands (we love you, Collina Strada), but it’s also home to some painfully cool home goods. This snake-shaped candle holder would not only make for a great Halloween dinner party centerpiece, but would look equally chic on a coffee table or bookshelf year-round.