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 | From Megan Romer, your About Books & Literature Editor "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." So begins Poe's "The Raven", one of the eeriest poems ever written, and the perfect one with which to start your Halloween reading. | |
Washington Irving - 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'
I've got a couple dozen relatives, from several generations back, buried in the old Sleepy Hollow Cemetery -- in the Old Dutch Churchyard, to be more specific. Thus, I have a particular fondness for this story -- in the absence of much actual information about my ancestors, I just pretend that this is a family tale. A really, really, really scary family tale.
| Photo Gallery of Haunted Theaters
Theater folk anywhere will tell you spine-tingling tales of theater hauntings (and if you're a thespian with a story to tell, don't hesitate to share it with us, we can't get enough). Theater hauntings seem to be, in fact, one of the more treasured aspects of stage culture... could that be because the stories are true?
| Spooky Poems for Halloween
Back to the topic of Poe and his fellow spooky scribes: there's something horrifyingly special about horror poems and the way that, long after you've finished reading them, they repeat their scary selves in your head, over and over, in a way that prose doesn't always quite do. It's an infiltration, of sorts. Rap, rap, rap.
| Halloween Costumes From Children's Books
If your plan is to keep Halloween on the lighter, less spooky side, here's a fun idea: children's book-inspired Halloween costumes. These ideas are good for kids and adults, and they'll hopefully help inspire anyone out there who still hasn't made the big costuming choice this year.
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