Happy Halloween, Day 29

We're getting close, ladies and gentlemen!




Link of the Day: The Literary Gothic Archive (This fantastic archive is a treasure trove of "must read" literature for Halloween. It's worth bookmarking and revisiting again and again.)


Literature of the Day: While preparing for this year's Halloween posts, I discovered this remarkable poem. It is my favorite new Halloween find of the year. I hope you find it as wonderfully spooky as I do!

"Hallows' E'en"
By Winifred M. Letts (1882-1972)

The girls are laughing with the boys, and gaming by the fire,
They're wishful, every one of them, to see her heart's desire,
Twas Thesie cut the barnbrack and found the ring inside,
Before next Hallows' E'en has dawned herself will be a bride.
But little Mollie stands alone outside the cabin door,
And breaks her heart for one the waves threw dead upon the shore.

Twas Katie's nut lepped from the hearth, and left poor Pat's alone
But Ellen's stayed by Christy Byrne's upon the wide hearthstone.
An' all the while the childher bobbed for apples set afloat,
The old men smoked their pipes and talked about the foundered boat,
But Mollie walked upon the cliff, and never feared the rain;
She called the name of one she loved and bid him come again.

( Young Peter pulled the cabbage-stump to win a wealthy wife, )