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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...
MIDNIGHT. Buried Child, Sam Shepard. "There ain't nothing a man can't do," we're told in this Pulitzer Prize winning drama. Infanticide, self-mutilation, heavy-drinking, corn-husking. 190 Proof Halloween horrorpotion. And who couldn't cuddle up to a play whose most quoted line is: "You ain't never seen a bitch eat her puppies?" Hello, my name is Sam Shepard. This is my closet. And these are my skeletons...
...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 spiders. 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...
...Legend of Sleepy Hollow," in The Sketch Book, Washington Irving. From one Irving to another, and this one is utterly different. But both Irvings share a delight in the grotesque, and Ichabod Crane is to Halloween, after all, what Dicken's Scrooge is to Christmas. This is must mid' o' the night reading, a story you can feel down deep in your Brom bones...