The Halloween Countdown, Day 10
These days Halloween just isn't Halloween without spooky movies, TV specials (Roseanne was always good for capturing the spirit of Halloween), the Richmond Zombie Walk*...
And a few good books.
There's required reading: The Halloween Tree, The October Country, Dark Carnival (if you can find a copy), there are collections of short stories for young and old alike (see my brief discussions here and here)...
And there's stuff I just discovered.
Now, originally I was going to babble about one of my favorite movies and probably the most underrated spooky film of all time, The Company of Wolves (see it on YouTube in ~10 min. segments here), but in tooling around the Intarwebs looking for information I found out a few things.
The film was based on a story in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber, an anthology of (very adult) updates to classic fairy tales, so of course I had to go out and purchase a copy. Oh, it's full of good stuff, eerie and off-kilter and just plain haunting.
Perfect for your Halloween reading pleasure.
* The 5th Annual Richmond Zombie Walk will be taking place this year on Saturday, Oct. 24--gather at Benedictine High School parking lot at 1:00 p.m. for the initial briefing and walk through Carytown soon thereafter.
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