All Hallow’s Read is @neil-gaiman's tricksy treatsy thingamabob to get more people to discover the exquisite anguish of reading horror stories: smuggle people scary stories along with the Halloween candy!
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What story gives you the most chills? Mine must be The Hound by H.P. Lovecraft. Brrh!
Btw, here all my All Hallow’s Read book monsters from previous years!
First year doing treats since pre-Covid, but I'm not up for opening the door to strangers. So I'm camped out with Treehouse of Horrors on my tablet and my Tumblr dash, handing out silly toys and stickers and comics and candy.
The cat didn't last, Spike doesn't like the outdoors or the youths.
The Mummy (1999), Van Helsing, Renfield, and The Shape of Water all succeeded at being worthy remakes/tributes to the Universal Horror franchise because they are all inherently camp
The Mummy (2017) failed that goal because it's too busy trying to be a Tom Cruise movie to be camp
All Hallow’s Read, the Halloween-thing for us book lovers to share the exquisite delight of reading horror - by giving scary books with the Halloween candy. And it’s invented by one of my absolute favorite authors @neil-gaiman !
There are far to few special days of the year to manifest and rejoice as readers. That’s why I’ve been doing fan art in the form of monster books for this on tumblr once a year for a decade now. Insane it’s been that long!
Cheers fellow readers and tumblrers you fundaments of culture!
“I mean,” said Miss Marple, puckering her brow a little as she counted the stitches in her knitting, “that so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly.”
...that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noon go quickly, ducks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain...