Ghosts, gremlins, and goblins weren’t the only ghastly creatures to fill the Middle School cafeteria for the fifth and sixth grade Halloween dance Friday night.

This is the second year the dance has been held, and though there were more traditional costumes – a couple monstrous Grim Reapers roamed the tiled room – most were of the students’ own imaginations, or interpretations. One student, sixth-grader Oliver Gakidis, went as a Dalek from “Doctor Who”; two others, sixth-graders Abby Wiksten and Makayla Semiao, went as elderly folks named “Madge” and “Mabel”.

Middle School PTA President Kim Cormier said she was impressed with the students’ costuming abilities.

“The kids are great,” Cormier said. “I am blown away by all the costumes.”

Cormier said last year’s dance was very successful, raising over $1,700, and expects a similar amount this year.

“These kids – you’d expect them to come in with four or five dollars,” Cormier said. “Some of these kids were coming in with $10, $20, and no problem spending it.”

There were also costume contests for the most creative costume, the scariest costume, and funniest costume.

Cormier said the PTA wants to do a seventh grade dance in the spring.