Halloween Magic

[Stingy Jack]

Talking about Christmas in the Salem thread made me think about Halloween ... and how I was always disappointed in it as a kid.

Unlike Christmas, Halloween never seemed to live up to itself. You spend the whole month watching scary movies, seeing people put frightening things out on their doorsteps, all leading up to the magical night that is Halloween ...

and then, you get some candy and go home. And it's over.

When I was a kid, I used to watch the moon on Halloween night, hoping to catch a glimpse of a witch on her broom. I expected SOMETHING truly scary to happen ... maybe see a ghost or a skeleton out and about in a graveyard, or see something ghastly in the window of that abandoned house on the corner ... but I never did. I was let down, year after year.

Even on Christmas, the parents put out the presents to at least provide SOME evidence that Santa Claus is real and there truly is something magical about Christmas. But they do nothing for the kids like this on Halloween.

Which is why I have decided that on Halloween night, every year until the year I die, I'm going to make it my duty to scare the explosive shits out of some kid.

[newb]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack


Which is why I have decided that on Halloween night, every year until the year I die, I'm going to make it my duty to scare the explosive shits out of some kid.

Quite the humanitarian, aren't you Stingy?



Would that be stodgy shit?

[Stingy Jack]

Originally posted by newb
Quite the humanitarian, aren't you Stingy?



Would that be stodgy shit?

lol

Perhaps. Depends on what the kid ate, I supose.

[Stingy Jack]

So ... I take it nobody else ever felt the same about Halloween when they were kids?

[Stingy Jack]

<BUMP>

I refuse to let this thread die until SOMEONE acknowledges they felt the same way about Halloween as I did when I was a kid!

[Vodstok]

I know exactly how you felt. that is actually why i started writing when i was younger. i used to come up with the most brutal, evil plots i could think of (which were pretty good for a kid) and write them out.

i always wanted to be ring-side for a zombie outbreak or a rabid werewolf massacre. :D

I think i saw someone egg a car once......:rolleyes:

[Stingy Jack]

Originally posted by Vodstok
I know exactly how you felt. that is actually why i started writing when i was younger. i used to come up with the most brutal, evil plots i could think of (which were pretty good for a kid) and write them out.

i always wanted to be ring-side for a zombie outbreak or a rabid werewolf massacre. :D

I think i saw someone egg a car once......:rolleyes:

Thank you!!!







Go down in flames, you pretty little "I thought you relevant but that was all a ruse" thread, you!

[Vodstok]

Once i was in high school, this was the time of year i owuld tear into my ravenloft books for AD&D, and later, my freinds and i would play it. October is the perfect month for gothic horror. Real life was always just such a letdown.

[Stingy Jack]

Originally posted by Vodstok
Once i was in high school, this was the time of year i owuld tear into my ravenloft books for AD&D, and later, my freinds and i would play it. October is the perfect month for gothic horror. Real life was always just such a letdown.

Call of Cthulhu was my thing. Got rid of the manuals, etc. a long time ago. I should pick 'em up again ... although, that would mean I would have to actually make some friends so I would have someone to play with.

[Vodstok]

That reminded me, when i was in junior high i started collectin dragon magazine, this one was the second issue i ever bought:



I still have it and it is still my favorite issue. it has tons of creatures in it, and some great undead stories. There is an article called "the ungratefull dead" which deals with various types of undead (zombies, ghouls, skeletons), and has a story or short essay on the history of the creature, or a story that refences them :D