Free events in Toronto this week will get a little spooky, though nothing is as terrifying as walking by the ATM to check your bank balance (also not always a free activity). The Zombie Walk and Night of Dread are big ones, plus there are parties, street fests, film screenings and more.

If you'd like to have fun on the cheap without having the pants scared off of you (I can't afford new pants either), the week holds tons of Hallo-whatever options. Showing up early to a book launch at Hashtag on Thursday will get you a free drink - then you can head to Philistine for free nail art, free shoe shines, free food, and free beer.

Here's how to live like you're not the economy's walking dead in Toronto this week.

MONDAY

• EARLY MONTHLY SEGMENTS #67 - Gregory Markopoulos (Gladstone)
• Free Ontario College Information Fair (Direct Energy)
• Toronto Photo Walks Group Exhibition 2014 (Art Square)

TUESDAY

• Philippe Blanchard - LUMIERE CONCRETE / STRUCTURED LIGHT (Glendon Gallery)
• ADULT BULLIES, DAVEY BRAT the Brat Attack & STINKBOX (Bovine Sex Club)
• The Portuguese in Kensington Market (Toronto Public Library, Lillian H. Smith branch)
• Free Adult Yoga Classes (The Sony Centre For The Performing Arts)
• LOSING MY GRIPS: KNTRO TURNS 26 A DEATH GRIPS PARTY (Detour)
• Amy Thiessen launches In Between Goodbyes [PWYC] (Not My Dog)

WEDNESDAY

• CURATIONISM Launch Party (The Drake Hotel)
• Shift Reunion & Book Launch for Chris Turner's "How to Breathe Underwater" (The Garrison)
• Eat Pray Love The FU Drag Musical [PWYC] (Bloor Street United Church)

THURSDAY

• Philistine Four Year Anniversary Party (Philistine)
• Book Launch Party (Hashtag)
• Nightmare on Queen Street - Grand Opening Masquerade Party [With Mask] (416 Gallery)
• BUMP IN THE NIGHT [PWYC] (Central)
• Friends of Friends w/ Iderdown, No Step, The Databats, Deeper Arcades [PWYC] (Handlebar)

FRIDAY

• Film Screening & Discussion of "Wretches & Jabberers" (York University)
• Beach Studio Tour (Friday - Sunday)
• Vakent, a photography exhibit by Craig Chambers (hub 14)

SATURDAY

• 2014 Toronto Zombie Walk and Halloween Parade (Nathan Phillips Square)
• Larry Towell: Afghanistan (Stephen Bulger Gallery)
• Film Screening & Discussion of "Wretches & Jabberers" (Bloor Hot Docs)
• Halloween (Paradise Comics)
• PRE-HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY (Sex Laser)
• BOO! at the Barns (Wychwood Barns)
• Night of Dread 2014 [PWYC] (Dufferin Grove Park)
• Thrill The World Toronto 2014 [PWYC] (Nathan Phillips Square)
• "Night Of The Living Dead" HALLOWEEN kiki ball [PWYC] (519 Church St)
• DESIRE w/ boyBITCH, Simple Chemistry, Valkyrie 1984, Deeper Arcades [PWYC] (Holy Oak)

SUNDAY

• Bad Movie Night Toronto presents DEATH SPA (Clinton's)
• Toronto West Halloween Fest 2014 (Bloor b/w Jane and Runnymeede)
• Halloween on Queen (Beach Village)
• Her Harbour, Formalists, Oxford Blue, / a Grayowl Point show & tell [PWYC] (Handlebar)

Also check out these regular free events

• Elvis Mondays at the Drake
• Foosball Battle Royale, Monday, Disgraceland
• Art Gallery of Ontario free evening, Wednesday, 6-8:30pm.
• IFOA Weekly, free for supporters, students, & youth under 26, Wednesday, Harbourfront Centre
• Skin of My Nuts Comedy Show, Thursday, Sonic Espresso Bar
• Canadian Opera Company's Free Concerts series
• While nearly all art galleries in the city are free to enter, it's worth noting The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) is always PWYC.
• The ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) offers discounted tickets on Fridays ($10).

Do you want everyone to know about your kinda random free or pay-what-you-can event? Submit it to our event section. (You can also submit your for-money events here, greedy-pants.)

Photo by Jess Milns