Monthly Archives: October 2013
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Above is one of the FEW holiday pictures for which one of our cats co-operated. His name’s Lucky. In many places, black cats are deemed unlucky, but we’re British, so to us, black cats are a symbol of good luck. Hence his name. We’ve had four full blacks over the years (the others were called […]
HISTORIC HYSTERIA
On October 30th, 1938, actor Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre Group caused a nation-wide panic with a radio broadcast of a play adapted from the science fiction novel, The War of The Worlds, by H.G. Wells. That this was just a play was clearly stated in the introduction, but close to a million of […]
DON’T FORGET THE STORY # 2
With Halloween almost upon us, here are some more spooky reads for kids. Some are not set in the past, but they do have ghosts and other … things from the past. For Ages 3-6 Gunhilde & The Halloween Spell by Virginia Kahl For Ages 7-9 Magic Tree House # 30: Haunted Castle On Hallow’s […]
GUEST WRITER # 2: GHOST WRITER V.L. MURRAY
INTERVIEW WITH GHOST WRITER V.L. MURRAY Check out Lynne’s ghostly contest at the end of the interview! Lynne Murray isn’t a ghost writer in the sense that she anonymously writes for other people. She sometimes writes about ghosts, and since she’s my guest today, I just have to ask her if she actually believes […]
HISTORY NOVEL REVIEW # 2: A HALLOWE’EN TALE
This book’s very cover gives you chills. As well it should because, who hasn’t been on a lonely road like that? A road on which anything might happen on a dark night – especially if that night is Halloween. And something does happen when Olivia and her friends set off for a Halloween party and […]
HALLOWEEN DVD SUGGESTIONS
A little personal history in which I recall how, some years back, the parish Halloween Party almost got a little too spooky. Returning from the video store with what the clerk had assured him was a scary movie, the priest handed the co-ordinator The Blair Witch Project. After a pause, she said, “Yes, well, Father, […]
