The Season of the Witch

“A Witch at her Cauldron” by J. Wellcome

Today is the Fall Equinox, and I am using that as an opportunity to express my deepest love for this time of the year and my intention to celebrate it to its absolute fullest. Full disclosure: I always feel like the “scary season” goes by way too fast, so I actually started my annual tradition of watching scary movies, drinking dark beer, and reading horror fiction on September 01. All I need is some bonafide jacket-weather (and jack-o-lantern’s on the doorstep) to make this legit! What it means for this blog is that I intend to spend the next several entries exploring some of the (even) weirder and darker cultural corners, scary stories, morbid movies, sinister sounds, and graceless ghosts I come across in my revelry. To quote my (almost) five-year-old daughter (who happens to share my love of the macabre), “SPOOKY!!!”