Gargoyles, ghosts, reindeer, Nicki Minaj, Hipster Sleeping Beauty, hooded evil-doers from “The Purge,” three blind mice, the cast from “Alice in Wonderland,” a hairy-footed hobbit and a grocery bag all showed up to a class assembly.

No, this isn’t the start to a joke — it was Halloween, Friday, Oct. 31 at Wiscasset High School.

There was a full school assembly in which all four classes shuffled into the gymnasium to the tune of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and filled the bleachers with all manner of creatures.

Students spent a part of Thursday dressing the school up with gargoyles and other Halloween-themed decorations.

The newly-formed attendance challenge winners were the juniors, who received plastic cups of candy for their stellar attendance record in October. No class attended less than 88 percent of its classes; a year ago the school-wide average was 86 percent.

Other awards handed out went to a group of freshmen who dressed up as the characters from “Alice in Wonderland” and won the top prize for group costumes. The group consisting of August Moore, Grace Webber, Vanessa Dunn, Corey Campbell, Lindsey Gordon, Haley Davis and Trinin Jeffrey won the top spot for their Wonderland garb.

Second place went to Santa (Josh Hodgdon) Mrs. Claus (Erika Auger) and his reindeer (Kayla Gordon, Maeve Carlson, Alecia Faulkingham, Hannah Welborn and Miranda McIntire), who came into the gym in a procession, complete with Gordon’s red Rudolf nose.

Third place in the group division was a group of students wearing masks and hoodies who dressed as the anonymous stalkers from the movie “The Purge.”

In the individual category, Zack Hodgdon took the top spot for his Shaw’s grocery bag costume. Shaw wore a large paper bag with bottles of Mountain Dew and bags of chips popping out around his head. Second place went to Haley Bogaczyk and third place went to Tylan Onorato; neither showed up to the assembly in costume, but Onorato had been dressed as Nicki Minaj.

The honorable mentions include Krishtiana Morrow, Sarah Bart and teacher Tim Flanagan.

“Mr. Flanagan came in and said ‘Look what I’m wearing’ and I thought ‘Oh, that’s nice,’” Deb Pooler, technology coordinator and student council advisor said during the assembly, referring to Flanagan who was wearing a white shirt, tie and thick glasses. “Then he went into the gym and when he came out he was dressed as Superman.”

At the end of the assembly the freshmen class was the loudest when asked to yell the end of “We are small but we are mighty.” For their prize they received — what else? — candy.