While children dress up as ghosts and goblins for halloween and get their bags and orange plastic pumpkins filled with candy, there's a ghoul in the night sky above and it's called Algol, the Demon ...
In this artist's view, the larger, cooler star in the Algol pair deeply eclipses the smaller, brighter star every 2.9 days. We can easily see the eclipse as a dramatic change in Algol's brightness.