Happy Halloween from Reason

With the presidential election now less than a week away, you've got plenty of reasons to be frightened. So to take your mind off the impending horrors of a second Obama or a first Romney administration, why not relax with this selection of Reason's best Halloween-related writings. You'll find ghosts, zombies, vampires, and other assorted eldritch terrors. Well, we warned you…

The Passion of the Pumpkin: Who killed Halloween? By Jesse Walker.

We the Living Dead: The convoluted politics of zombie cinema. By Tim Cavanaugh.

The Spook Racket: Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supposedly supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead. By Damon Root.

Let Your Kids Eat Poisoned Halloween Candy. And Take Pictures! By Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Season of the Regulator: The killjoys come out on Halloween. By Jesse Walker.

Interview With a Vampire Expert: Author Eric Nuzum surveys (and survives) the secret world of bloodsuckers. Interview by David Weigel.

Cthulhu and You, Perfect Together. By Tim Cavanaugh.

Satan's Faces: The many lives of Lucifer. By Jesse Walker.

Why Buffy Kicked Ass: The deep meaning of TV's favorite vampire slayer. By Virginia Postrel.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Things were better when Postrel wrote about Buffy. Maybe I'll slip into my angsty vampire costume a little early.

[robc]

A little early to start drinking.

[Almanian's Evil Twin]

Oh, PLEASE. It's a bit late - let's get going!

[Rasilio]

Hey There Cthulhu

[Tim]

The politics of monsters.

[Rick Santorum]

Why Buffy Kicked Ass: The deep meaning of TV's favorite vampire slayer.

Whedon is a gay feminist manchild anti-gun liberal. There is no "deep meaning" to his work.

[LTC(ret) John]

Mr. Root, for that photo, I salute you! [raises tentacle].

[Julio Cesar Samper Uribe]

You mean, THIS Joss Whedon?

http://youtu.be/6TiXUF9xbTo

[mr simple]

I see Jesse is in the pocket of Big King James Only translation, by constantly referring to Satan as Lucifer, a Latin Vulgate transliteration of the Hebrew term for morning star used only once in the Hebrew bible, possibly not even in reference to Satan, while Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in the New Testament.

Free minds, free markets indeed. Good day, sir.

[LTC(ret) John]

*opera clap*

[Dr. Frankenstein]

I've never read Lovecraft and yet I get most of the Cthulhu references. I have strange friends.

[attractions guide]

Happy Halloween is really a funny festival, i like it very much