Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 27

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Would you like a classic piece of Halloween to enjoy? You can download for free the now-in-public-domain Dennison’s Bogie Book (1920) here. Here’s a description of the book from Public Domain Review:

“Decoration, costume and party suggestions from 1920 for the night of Halloween, that one time (according to the book) ‘of all the year when an opportunity is supposed to be given for looking into the future and having one’s fate settled for the coming twelve months.’ Full of lots of handicraft tips on making that perfect spooky zone, as well as various party games (mostly involving blindfolds and choosing future loves) and a couple of ghost stories to read when midnight strikes. So.. ‘Why not invite your friends to a Hallowe’en party and join in the fun of trying some of the time-honored ways of finding out what the future holds in store?’”

(This is “Spirit of the Swamp” by GhastlyGhast.)

“To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the
water.”  
- Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination