Happy Halloween, Day 16

First, one Halloween-related announcement: Valancourt Books has announced the debut of its new annual Halloween Special. Oh, the horror! Check it out at their website.


And now, on with the show:

Link of the Day: Mad-Monsters Movie Trailers (This is great fun. Watch the movie trailers of classic old horror films on your computer! Be sure to look around the rest of the site, as well.)


Literature of the Day: Here's a classic for you.

“All Souls” (1909)
by Edith Wharton

A thin moon faints in the sky o'erhead,
And dumb in the churchyard lie the dead.
Walk we not, Sweet, by garden ways,
Where the late rose hangs and the phlox delays,
But forth of the gate and down the road,
Past the church and the yews, to their dim abode.
For it's turn of the year and All Souls' night,
When the dead can hear and the dead have sight.

Fear not that sound like wind in the trees:
It is only their call that comes on the breeze;
Fear not the shudder that seems to pass:
It is only the tread of their feet on the grass;
Fear not the drip of the bough as you stoop:
It is only the touch of their hands that grope--
For the year's on the turn and it's All Souls' night,
When the dead can yearn and the dead can smite.

( And where should a man bring his sweet to woo )