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You’ll Never Believe the Guests at This Halloween Party!
Some top-notch investigative reporting from the sidelines of the most lit party in town. Warning: Number 1 will blow your mind!
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All Souls’ Day: Forget Halloween, This is the Real After-Party with the Dead
All Souls’ Day is pretty fun. Given the fact that the cemetery stayed open late on All Souls’ Day, as teenagers we’d take advantage of the darkness to visit graves and gather cigarettes and alcohol left behind by families for their late relatives. We’d find the occasional piece of fried fish left unsullied by the birds and have ourselves a good ol’ fashioned party.
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Much Before Halloween There Was Bhoot Chaturdashi
Halloween is too in-your-face. Bhoot Chaturdashi, which falls on the night before Diwali, has the kind of suspense that plays with your mind. I remember peering into the dark fearfully, thinking twice about making that trip to the bathroom on my own, lest a spirit held my body hostage.
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Why I Won’t Be Watching Goosebumps 2 in Theatres
I learned the lesson that it’s better not to tarnish the memories of the books I would read by torchlight after bedtime with a movie more goofy and ghastly. Written by RL Stine, the Goosebumps books were where younger readers were introduced to all of horror’s tropes as a genre.
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Let’s Call It Spooktober: Why October is the Best Time to Binge on Horror
October is a twilit month, suspended between bright summers and shadowy winters. For a fan of horror, there’s no better time in the year. This year, it’s The Terror, a gripping survival horror series, and the new Stephen King adaptation, In the Tall Grass, with which I’m greeting the season of spookiness.