By Michele Debczak│mentalfloss.com│1 min

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No matter how you feel about scary movies, it’s hard to avoid them around Halloween. This is the time of year when the faces of cinema’s classic horror villains seem to pop up in every store window and television set you see. Depending on where you live, certain horror icons may be especially hard to ignore. Check out the map below to find out the most popular scary movie villain in your state.

To make the map, FrontierBundles.com chose 15 classic horror movie antagonists and looked at regional Google Trends data for each name from the past year. Frankenstein’s Monster from 1931’s Frankenstein dominates most of the country, with 11 states including Pennsylvania and Arizona searching for the character. Ghostface from 1996’s Scream ranked second with eight states. Chucky from Child’s Play (1988), the Xenomorph from the Alien franchise, and Norman Bates from Psycho (1960) also rank high on the list.

Not every Halloween term Americans are searching for is horror-related. Some of the more wholesome seasonal queries that appear in Google’s data include candy, crafts, and maze. But for every Google user searching for family-friendly fall activities, there are plenty looking up horror movies and monsters as well. Here’s what people are Googling in your state for Halloween.