Well, another Halloween has come and gone. In the past, I have blogged quite a bit about Halloween, which one can read by clicking on the appropriate tag below.
This year I don’t have too much to say. Once again, Halloween did bring out the brief flickering of my old desire to write weird fiction. I happened to read the Wikipedia entries on the jack-o’-lantern, and from there the entry on the will-o’-the-wisp, and all the attendant legends, and thought that there was a lot of material there to inspire a story.
But, once again, I came up with nothing.
Also, I have been wondering when people should take down their Halloween decorations. As of yesterday and earlier today, I was still seeing numerous ghosts, skeletons, and giant spider webs in people’s yards. The situation is starting to feel a little like the phenomenon of people leaving their Christmas lights up well into January or February (or March . . . ).
Perhaps the answer would be to leave decorations up until the end of the similar but unrelated holiday, the Day of the Dead, which is, um, actually two days.
