Trick or Treat?

 

“Let us talk, you and I. Let us talk about fear.”

Stephen King

Halloween. That one time of the year when all manner of spooky things come crawling out of the woodwork and up your front porch, a smile on their face quipping the line “Trick or Treat?” For your sake, you had better have some candy in the house, coz you know that these guys can get nasty!

Today just happens to be one of my favourite days of the year, as you must have guessed from the way I have started this post. I have always been a fan of the macabre, those spine chilling things that you somehow discover while you are growing up. Funnily enough, my father’s pretty into the daily dose of horror and so is my mum. Howzzat!

                               

Then of course there’s the myriad amount of fiction and lore on this topic. Take Stephen King, HP Lovecraft, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The list is endless. But you know the best part of a horrific experience? Curling up in bed, after you’ve seen a horror movie or read a particularly descriptive tome and trying to convince yourself that the rustling you hear is just the wind and not a werewolf sneaking up to dismember you. Or checking multiple times for a monster under your bed, sometimes employing your mom to do so, because you are too scared.

So folks, what’s it gonna be? Trick? Or Treat?

 

The Bilge Master