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...Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor. These short stories have nothing to do with Halloween, but as anyone familiar with O'Connor can tell you, they fit the occasion perfectly. The title piece is particularly horrifying, and if someone named the Misfit comes begging candy at your door, call HUPD P.D.Q...
...Yours," in An Amateur's Guide to the Night, Mary Robison. A wise, poignant pumpkin-carving story from Harvard's own writer-in-residence. Apart from letting you cool down after the macabre O'Connor, "Yours" reveals a more human side to the Halloween season. And Robison finds a beautiful metaphor in the dying flame at the heart of every jack-o'-lantern...
...Fight," in The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving. All Hallow's Eve, Irving-style. Giant spikers. Heart attacks. Tortured children. A tragic rape. But there's the usual dose of good humor here, and Irving's spirit shines through bigger than the State o' Maine itself. This is Halloween candy to sink your wisdom teeth into, the Snickers bar in the bag of Golden Delicious apples...
...both Irvings share a delight in the grotesque, and Ichabod Crane is to Halloween, after all, what Scrooge is to Christmas. This is must mid' o' the night reading, a story you can feel down deep in your Brom bones...
...first and last 25 pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. Because it's not every novel that has its young heroine dressed like a ham for a Halloween pageant, because Lee creates the archetypical American neighborhood and has the good grace to let you explore it, kid-like, by the light of midnight streetlamps, and because Boo Radley, with his taste for live squirrels and last-minute heroics, is the embodiment of Halloween itself--a big, lurking Boogie Man, with a heart of gold...