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...TREPANNING. Maturin's on-deck medical tour de force--taking the top off a patient's skull to release pressure and inserting a silver coin under the wound--is well depicted...
...hero of Yellow Dog, such as he is, is a mild-mannered and dutiful husband named Xan Meo. For Xan, 47, a Londoner, "marriage is a sibling relationship--marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest." But after a mysterious stranger cracks Xan's skull in a bar fight, he changes. He becomes primitive, abusive, constantly battling volcanic surges of rage and horniness. The new Xan is a man who "seldom saw a woman of any age whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior...
...Halloween, Gossip Guy’s dressing up as a goggled, skull cap-wearing, newspaper-toting fellow of Asian extraction. To encourage others to get in the Halloween spirit, he brings you blood-chilling lies, haunting rumors and inedible innuendos (because, alas, the wrapper’s already been opened...
...digging up Burrows’s corpse. His animatronic shovel moves jerkily. Laura asks us to join her by the corpse, and to “make room” so that everyone can have a chance to see. She tells us of how Mather boiled Burrows’ skull and found that it was of an abnormal size, leading him to claim Burrows was a witch. “But, of course, when you boil someone’s skeleton, their bones expand,” Laura tells us chirpily...
...rustle from the trees as they shed their leaves in nature's annual striptease and, everywhere you look, ripe, corrugated pumpkins, waiting to be turned into something delicious by a touch of nutmeg and a hot oven. Except that the mist comes from dry ice stuck in a grinning skull, the whisper in the trees from nylon ghosts hung in the boughs, and the pumpkin, made of bilious orange plastic, has a gizmo inside that groans "Whoooooooo ..." as you walk past. Halloween is upon us again...