Opie was alive last Halloween, when we went to Vegas, but he didn't really know what was going on. This year, he noticed the pumpkins, and the candy, and after a bit of coaxing enjoyed his bat costume:
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And he went trick-or-treating, both at school and with some local kids. Four-year-old girls are good leaders, see?
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He's now been trick-or-treating twice, which is twice more than his old man has been. The combination of Brooklyn in the 1970s and 1980s (four- and five-story apartment buildings), neighborhood ethnic animosities (You Italian? No? Get offa my stoop!), kids throwing eggs everywhere, and the Tylenol-based hysteria basically made it impossible for me when I was a kid. I didn't go with him either, as I was chasing a deadline and so stayed home (it was for a "ghost"-themed issue of a literary journal at least), but maybe next year.
Some Halloweeny treets. My Lovecraftian/Nixonian novel THE DAMNED HIGHWAY (with Brian Keens) ebook is on sale for a mere 3.99 for Amazon KIndle, B&N's NOOKApple iTunes, Kobo, and Google Books. No idea when it might snap back to its usual high ebook price of $12.99, so do not delay if this sounds good to you. (Indeed, I only learned of the sale thanks to automated websearches of my surname; some cheap-ebook blog found the sale and listed it.)
Another little thing for interested parties might be the alternative history/steampunk/ghost story anthology Ghost in the Cogs, which inexplicably went on sale yesterday for e- and print-on-demand p. It includes my post-Carnacki Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder story "The Twentieth Century Man", as well as interesting stories by Rich Dansky and others.
And he went trick-or-treating, both at school and with some local kids. Four-year-old girls are good leaders, see?
He's now been trick-or-treating twice, which is twice more than his old man has been. The combination of Brooklyn in the 1970s and 1980s (four- and five-story apartment buildings), neighborhood ethnic animosities (You Italian? No? Get offa my stoop!), kids throwing eggs everywhere, and the Tylenol-based hysteria basically made it impossible for me when I was a kid. I didn't go with him either, as I was chasing a deadline and so stayed home (it was for a "ghost"-themed issue of a literary journal at least), but maybe next year.
Some Halloweeny treets. My Lovecraftian/Nixonian novel THE DAMNED HIGHWAY (with Brian Keens) ebook is on sale for a mere 3.99 for Amazon KIndle, B&N's NOOKApple iTunes, Kobo, and Google Books. No idea when it might snap back to its usual high ebook price of $12.99, so do not delay if this sounds good to you. (Indeed, I only learned of the sale thanks to automated websearches of my surname; some cheap-ebook blog found the sale and listed it.)
Another little thing for interested parties might be the alternative history/steampunk/ghost story anthology Ghost in the Cogs, which inexplicably went on sale yesterday for e- and print-on-demand p. It includes my post-Carnacki Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder story "The Twentieth Century Man", as well as interesting stories by Rich Dansky and others.