Be good. Don’t drink and drive. Don’t egg my house.
(Cartoon by David Revoy.)
Photo credit: David Revoy, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Tag Archives: Halloween
My poem “This Windy Morning” will be included in Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology!
I’m thrilled to share here that a poem of mine will be included in this year’s installment of Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology, Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025.
The poem is “This Windy Morning,” and I am grateful to Maddie McGivney and Bards President James P. Wagner for letting me join the holiday fun. 🙂
You can preorder a copy of the book, if you wish, right here at the Local Gems Press website.
“Hallowe’en Greetings” postcard, circa 1920
Unknown artist; Whitney Made (publisher).
Happy Halloween!!
Enjoy it and stay safe!!
Photo credit: ParentingPatch, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
A little more seasonal fun?
A pal of mine is contemplating this very prank.
And now so am I. (You can get some pretty interesting ideas from Facebook.) I even know exactly which college friend I’d like to spook.
Suppose a succession of different disconcerted people handed this off to someone else. If you could somehow track the doll’s progress, it would be an interesting social experiment.
Hey … suppose the doll actually took on a supernatural life of its own — after being infused with the fears of the people who’d handled it during the inception of an innocent prank? You’d have a whole life-imitates-art thing going on. Or unlife.
What a story idea! One of you guys should run with that.
Thank God it’s Friday?
What’s that, you say? It’s Friday the 13th just a couple of weeks before Halloween?
Well, I guess THAT explains Jason Voorhees’ visit to the Nolan house.
Festis the Pumpkin sez hello.
The little one is Avery.
[Update — tragedy strikes! Festis, who has visited my house since 2014 or so, finally saw his green light go out just moments after this photo was taken! He had a good run. Rest in peace, Festis!]
“Oooooooh, I got a live one here!”
For any millennials reading this, the above headline is another one of my awesome 80’s references.
Pal of mine got me these bat Halloween decorations; they’re all over my house. Here’s the thing, though — they look so much like Batman’s bat symbol that I might leave them affixed at key locations in my home after the holiday, the better to confer superhero lair status. The second picture below is my bedroom door, for example.
I could go nuts. I could have a bat-lamp. A bat-coffeemaker. A bat-dishwasher. A bat-garbage can. Can’t afford the butler, though.
Happy Halloween!!!
I hope you’ve got something fun planned. Granted, I don’t exactly look terrifying in my discount glow-in-the-dark hockey mask, but hey.
I DO have an excellent Halloween pun for you.
If I summon two demons today to do my bidding, but instead elect to lease them out to you, why is that a GOOD thing?
Because it makes me the lessor of two evils.
Damn, I’m good.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 