Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 17
Oct. 17th, 2019 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eldritchhobbitEarlier this year I had the pleasure of making a pilgrimage to the shrine of the King of October Country himself, The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI (Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis). My amazing experience there is the focus of my “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on Episode 593 of the StarShipSofa podcast, which you can listen to here.
In the Center’s recreation of Ray Bradbury’s basement office, I found this beauty, Ray Bradbury’s own depiction of the Halloween Tree. Breathtaking!
(Photos by AHS.)
At the edge of the deep dark night ravine he pointed over the rim of the hills and the earth, away from the light of the moon, under the dim light of strange stars. The wind fluttered his black cloak and the hood that half shadowed and now half revealed his almost fleshless face.
“There, do you see it, lads?”
“What?”
“The Undiscovered Country. Out there. Look long, look deep, make a feast. The Past, boys, the Past. Oh, it’s dark, yes, and full of nightmare. Everything that Halloween ever was lies buried there. Will you dig for bones, boys? Do you have the stuff?”
He burned his gaze at them.
“What is Halloween? How did it start? Where? Why? What for? Witches, cats, mummy dusts, haunts. It’s all there in that country from which no one returns. Will you dive into the dark ocean, boys? Will you fly in the dark sky?”
- Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
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Date: 2019-10-19 08:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-10-21 01:18 pm (UTC)re: Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 17
Date: 2019-10-19 09:14 pm (UTC)'The Halloween Tree' is a fave, but for the Samhain section.
Re: Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 17
Date: 2019-10-21 01:19 pm (UTC)