halloween

first and foremost, happy halloween one and all. who cares if it ended half an hour ago.

Read an article on Reader's digest, October 1997 issue. God knows how it ended up in this house and fell victim to my posession. The Admiral of Halloween by Ralph Kinney Bennet. Nice short article, expressing the childhood memories in every adult that never die.

Was reading Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Terror into the wee hours of the morning. At my first glance(I was 8 at the time), the cover scared me to the extent that I would not touch the book or even look at it. So it was left to gather dust until that Halloween night. But when I picked it up, it's actually a pretty interesting book. I liked "Some Words With a Mummy" and ironically enough it was the funniest of the lot. Quite funny having a 5000 year old mummy sitting by a fireplace in English attire arguing about the advancements of Egyptian technology compared to the 18th century England. The scarier ones included "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Masque of the Red Death", "William Wilson"(this one somehow reminds me of Oscar Wilde's Portrait of Dorian Gray) and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Particualrly freaky was Hop-Frog. Twisted and freaky. "The Pit and the Pendulum" was good...until the narrator got rescued by the French army invading the prison. If he had died it would end the story quite nicely. A grosteque ending to a gruesome book, now that's what I'd like.