The Best Halloween Poems: Jeffrey LeBlanc’s “Blood & Dust” NOW SHOWCASED on HWA’s HALLOWEEN HAUNTS 2021!!!!!
“A vampire’s thirst is a deadly thing!”–Jeffrey Leblanc (Blood & Dust)
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Halloween Horror: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story.–Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
The Best Halloween Poems–Episode 22: William Butler Yeats’s “The Stolen Child”
“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”–William Butler Yeats (The Stolen Child)
The Best Halloween Poems–Episode 21: “Unda ‘Bride of the Sea'”
Murmuring waters about me are closing,
Soft the sweet vision advances to me:
Done are my trials; my heart is reposing
Safe with my Unda, the Bride of the Sea.–H. P. Lovecraft (Unda–Bride of the Sea)
Halloween Horror: Robert Bloch’s “The Hungry House”
He must be standing behind her now. He must have come in quietly, without saying anything. Perhaps he was going to put his arms around her, surprise her, startle her. Hence the shadow on the mirror. She turned ready to greet him. The room was empty.–Robert Bloch (The Hungry House)
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