Happy Halloween 2009!

[eldritchhobbit]

The day is here, my friends! We made it! Happy Halloween, Happy Samhain, and (slightly early) Happy Día de los Muertos!

Thank you so much for joining me in my month-long holiday celebration. I truly hope you've enjoyed it. I have! Please stop by, grab a virtual latte or cider or hot cocoa, a candied apple or some roasted pumpkin seeds, or even a goblet of blood and a plate of brains, and say hello!



Happy birthday to greenhoodloxley, and also happy early birthday to ithiliana, as well! May you both enjoy a wonderful day and a fantastic year to come.


Halloween Links:
* If you haven't checked out the daily Halloween posts of euclase (art), mamomo (design and fashion), vivien529 (memories), and Melodrama (music), or the fantastic month-long Halloween discussion posts at The Hog's Head, you have time to catch up on all the goodness today!
* As always, you can find all of my past Halloween posts here.
* From io9: "25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted"
* From Mashable: "10 Horror Films You Can Watch For Free Online This Halloween"
* From Revolution Science Fiction: "Top 6.66 Haunted Houses" and "Top 6.66 Zombies"


Spooky Text of the Day: What can I say? This is my favorite. I hope you enjoy "Hallowe'en in a Suburb" by H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).

The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,
And the trees have a silver glare;
Past the chimneys high see the vampires fly,
And the harpies of upper air,
That flutter and laugh and stare.

For the village dead to the moon outspread
Never shone in the sunset's gleam,
But grew out of the deep that the dead years keep
Where the rivers of madness stream
Down the gulfs to a pit of dream.

A chill wind weaves through the rows of sheaves
In the meadows that shimmer pale,
And comes to twine where the headstones shine
And the ghouls of the churchyard wail
For harvests that fly and fail.

Not a breath of the strange grey gods of change
That tore from the past its own
Can quicken this hour, when a spectral power
Spreads sleep o'er the cosmic throne,
And looses the vast unknown.

So here again stretch the vale and plain
That moons long-forgotten saw,
And the dead leap gay in the pallid ray,
Sprung out of the tomb's black maw
To shake all the world with awe.

And all that the morn shall greet forlorn,
The ugliness and the pest
Of rows where thick rise the stones and brick,
Shall some day be with the rest,
And brood with the shades unblest.

Then wild in the dark let the lemurs bark,
And the leprous spires ascend;
For new and old alike in the fold
Of horror and death are penned,
For the hounds of Time to rend.

Comments

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween! Thank you for sharing the spookiness with us!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I had a great time. :)

[euclase.livejournal.com]

Happy Hallowen to you, dear!

What an awesome way to end the month--with the absolute best poem ever. :D

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, my friend! :)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween to you too!

*Hugs*

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *hugs*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Thanks as ever for the wonderfully spooky October ride! And an especial thanks for the link to "10 Horror Films You Can Watch for Free Online This Halloween." There's a couple there I've always wanted to see but never got around to purchasing.

But tonight, after the trick-or-treaters leave, I plan on watching "Macabre." I remember it vividly from my childhood and after many years finally managed to obtain a copy. I hope it's half as scary as I remember!

[vyrdolak.livejournal.com]

TCM is playing "Circus of Horror" tonight at 12:45. I had only seen a still from this in an old Famous Monsters of Filmland, showing the cruelly handsome Anton Diffring with the side of his face mutilated.

TCM showed some good old films this year ("The Ghoul", "The Body Snatcher", "Dead of Night"), I wish I could say that about AMC. They are playing NOTLD now at least. But TCM didn't show "Voodoo Island" this year, I've missed it two years in a row. It's schlock but I remember seeing it once as a child, until my grandmother made us turn it off because it was too scary for her.

Thank you for a wonderful month of posts!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I need to see Voodoo Island! I'm sorry TCM missed that this year. I did catch part of The Body Snatcher as it played, which is always good. We ended up watching a double-feature: the new Burrowers (2008, which we hadn't seen before) and the classic Lewton Isle of the Dead (1944), and that was a lovely combination.

Thanks so much for joining me for my countdown this year! It was great fun.

[vyrdolak.livejournal.com]

We ended up watching the classic Lewton Isle of the Dead.

Vorvolika! Vorvolika!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Red-cheeked and full of blood!

Voodoo Island

[vyrdolak.livejournal.com]

It was actually our grandfather who made us turn it off, our grandmother was busy throwing up in the bathroom. It was that good!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome! I hope you had a great time watching Macabre. We ended up with a double-feature: the new Burrowers (2008) and the classic Isle of the Dead (1944) and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. :)

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

And Happy Halloween to you!

Thanks for all the effort with the graphics and the wonderful links!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) And it was my pleasure! I hope you had a great one.

Joyous Samhain!

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

Thanks you so much for such a wonderful month of Halloween fun! I enjoyed every post!

Re: Joyous Samhain!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :) It was great fun for me.

[mjolnir1964.livejournal.com]

Dr. Amy, thank you so much for sharing all your Halloween goodies with us! You Rawk! Have a great Samhain! =)

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I had such fun sharing these posts. Happy Samhain, my friend!

[rhi]

Happy Halloween! Thank you for all the posts this month!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! And happy Halloween to you, too!

[vivien]

Happy, happy Halloween! I always enjoy your posts so much. Thanks for sharing them.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

And a happy, happy one to you, too! Thank you so much. :)

[cookiefleck.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your Month o' Posts - and Happy Halloween!

This is great: "the dead leap gay in the pallid ray."

Pass the brains, please. Heh, heh.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I hope you had a great one.

Pass the brains, please. Heh, heh.

Ha! :)

thanks

[cinda-cite.livejournal.com]

thanks for your hard work, and sharing your passion. for the enjoyment!

Re: thanks

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! I hope you had a fantastic one.

[dodger-winslow.livejournal.com]

Happy Halloween!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

And to you, my friend!

[elmwood.livejournal.com]

Happy Hallowe'en and thank you so much for the spooktacular month of posts. I have enjoyed them immensely. I love anything spooky but have always hated the commercialism of Hallowe'en and have put up with it only because our North American born child loved it. As he is now in high school, he has been declared too old to trick or treat, so he and a friend are handing out the candy while I lurk like a Great Old One in the basement.

[sittingduck1313.livejournal.com]

This might amuse you then.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/in_the_know_has_halloween_become

[elmwood.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you. It did more than amuse me. I sensibly put down my tea before watching it.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's a hoot. Thanks for the link!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! I'm so glad you enjoyed the posts. I think lurking like a Great Old One in the basement is a perfect way to spend the holiday, by the way. Very fitting. ;) Hope you had a great one!

[ankh-hpl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for winding up your great month of posts with some premium HPL. I'm only sorry we all have to wait another year for this treat!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! Thanks so much for joining me. I'm so happy you enjoyed it.

[morfin.livejournal.com]

It's become an annual tradition I look forward to every year. You do a fantastic job on this, and it's much appreciated!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! That makes me very happy. I'm so pleased you enjoy it. :)

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

"25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted"

Thank you very much. I will never sleep again.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Seriously disturbing, innit?