MARION — Chucky, the killer doll, sat with a vampire on a stone wall along Marion’s main drag Thursday, Oct. 31.

The unlikely pair, 7-year-old Clayton and his grandmother Sue Bender, were waiting. The Marion Art Center’s annual Halloween parade had just concluded its orbit around the town village, and the streets were filled with characters and creatures roaming for candy.

Clayton and Sue waited for 9-year-old MacKay and the kids’ mother Claudia Bender, who both also became vampires for the holiday. Mackay had lost one of her costumed teeth.

“Of course, she couldn’t come without her fangs,” Sue Bender said.

It made for a generational trio of mythical blood-drinking monsters, once MacKay’s fangs were straightened out and the group united.

“I’m the grandma vampire, so I don’t have any teeth,” Sue Bender said.

Clayton, who said his favorite candy was Reese’s, was dressed as the scar-faced and menacing doll Chucky from the “Child's Play” slasher horror film franchise.

“He loves scary stuff,” Sue Bender said.

After the Marion Art Center’s parade concluded, the witches that had led the parade handed out bags of candy in front of the Marion Music Hall, as the diversely garbed crowd dispersed to trick-or-treat.

Jodi Stevens, the art center’s executive director, said the parade was “fun as always.”

“It’s so fun to see everybody in their costumes,” Stevens said. “There’s always so many unique ones.”

Characters celebrating the evening in Marion included the superhero Wolverine and video game mainstay Mario. There were dogs wearing football and Boston Celtics jerseys. Those who may have been looking for Waldo could find him on Front Street.

There was also Harry Wisner, whose self-referential Halloween costume was for trick-or-treaters a particularly big hit — or knock.

“I’m dressed as the front door to a house giving out candy,” Wisner said.

Sure enough, Wisner, shrouded by a curtain, stood behind a disembodied door standing on its own on the sidewalk.

“Knock for candy,” a sign on the door said.