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...became a sod. There was some trouble with the law too: that scab he had killed, and a life on the run that has finally slowed to a stumble. Now Francis is an alcoholic hobo on the sad side of 50. He wanders the Albany streets on a Halloween night in 1938, cadging free meals and hoping to make his peace with the phantoms who beckon to him from every trolley seat, backyard and yawning grave. So many lives behind him, and so many deaths. A man just wants to rock himself to sleep and not wake...
...continue. In the end, there is only one reason why he made the painful decision to miss for the first time going trick-or-treating with his sons. There was the distant hope, still visible to him on the Iowa horizon, that he would have to miss Halloween only one more time -- next year, as he heads into the general election...
...career woman unlucky in love. And by skewing a Hitchcockian domestic thriller into a rousing horror show. Fatal Attraction starts as Vertigo and ends as Psycho. For all its flaws, the picture deftly scares and excites people with fun-house-mirror reflections of themselves. As Director John Carpenter (Halloween) notes, "The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman." Or woman...
...hours last month, she held the nation's heart as rescuers in Midland, Texas, worked desperately to free her from an abandoned well. Last week Jessica McClure took her first public bows since she emerged battered and bloody from her underground prison. Wearing an orange-and-black Halloween outfit, the 19-month-old child chirped "Trick or treat!" at a press conference in Midland Memorial Hospital. Bandages covered her forehead and right foot; doctors hope to begin skin grafts this week to repair the wounds. Midland celebrated the happy ending with a parade to honor the 400 people who took...
Daniel Vilmure '87 is the author of Life in the Land of the Living, a novel published this month by Aflred A. Knopf. This article first appeared in The Crimson last Halloween...