Two posts during the month of October still counts as sporadic posting related to Halloween, right? Let’s just reset and pretend I never promised to post about Halloween, or banned book week either. Instead of those things I said I would do, please enjoy this Poe Pumpkin. I’m pretty pleased with the way it turned out. In case you can’t tell from the picture, it’s a raven, and I scribbled lines from The Raven on it as well. It’s Halloween for literature geeks. Happy holidays!
Christmas gets twelve days and an advent calendar, but where’s the love for Halloween? Why should St. Nick get all the pre-event buzz when Old Nick’s got a perfectly good holiday worthy of a countdown of its own? (And no, stores putting out their candy and plastic skeletons in July doesn’t count. Same goes for the Christmas trees that come out the second Halloween is over.)
In order to right this grievous wrong, throughout October I will sporadically make various Halloween-related posts in anticipation of the big day. After all, if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing in a half-assed way!