Spooky llamas and corn mazes aren’t the only reasons I love Halloween, but they’re some of the most recent. Should you find yourself up around Jonesborough, Tennessee, and the community of Chuckey, as I did, watch the road for small signs to the Spooky Llama Trails & Tales experience.

For about five weeks in the fall, the Walnut Ridge Llama Farm and Chuckey Ruritan Club add a tingle to autumn with a storytelling hayride. Be forewarned: You will meet the hairy Wendigo of Cherokee legend along the way. Don’t lower your guard, because he has friends in the hilly forest, namely a wood hag, scarecrow and zombies, who are prone to pause for dance routines under the tall, moonlit pines. Throw in plenty of llama petting, s’mores at the camp fire and a Native American storyteller, and you’ve got the type of delicious outing that can make the month of October so much fun.

What does any of this have to do with food? Only that Halloween is coming, and I hope many of you get a kick out of checking out themed food ideas like I do. People can come up with the greatest stuff, can’t they? Like the pumpkin rolls pictured. You can make your own dough, of course, but frozen ones work well, too, and save time. These minis would be a hit throughout the fall, and especially gorgeous on a Thanksgiving table.

Another idea is “mummified” spinach dip. With pizza dough, mozarella string cheese and a couple of black olives, turn the traditional spinach dip bread bowl into an appetizer guests will exclaim over, courtesy of Kraft recipes. (You can even use store-bought spinach dip. We won’t tell.)

Then there are pretzel and string cheese brooms. They may not sprout arms and tote water buckets as the sorcerer’s apprentice’s brooms did for Mickey Mouse in “Fantasia,” but these snacks have the potential to (forgive me) sweep guests off their feet, regardless of age.

Other ideas abound online. You can find them, too. As a matter of preference, I tend to avoid the eyeball cookies, “brains” of shrimp and any dish remotely resembling worms, opting for a more benign vibe. Each to his own. But, hey, if you can find a llama or two and a wagon filled with hay, your Halloween is made, no matter what you serve.

SIMPLE PUMPKIN ROLLS

1 bag bake-and-serve dinner yeast rolls (more, if desired)

Egg wash

Whole pecans, cut into thirds