A Time for Reckoning– GC Myers, 2001
Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we’re in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye
Well don’t go around tonight
Well it’s bound to take your life
There’s a bad moon on the rise
—Bad Moon Rising, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Another Halloween night.
Thinking this morning of Halloweens past brings back memories of the ghosts, goblins, zombies, vampires, werewolves and the many other monsters in the horror movies and stories I hungrily gulped down as a kid. They scared the bejesus out of me back then. Halloween was a festive celebration of the fear they induced, never feeling as frightening as sitting alone in the dark with a monster movie on the TV and a racing imagination in my mind.
But in all those Halloweens and all the films and stories that inspired the fear it represents; this might be the scariest Halloween of my life. I am sure there are more than a few of you out there who understand and share the fear to which I allude. If you don’t know, you are the fortunate few.
It’s like sensing an impending attack from an army of monsters, demons, Martians with ray guns or whatever horrific creature haunted your childhoods. You know there’s a chance it might be coming but there is little that can be done now except wait.
I’m not going to go into it any deeper this morning. Let’s just enjoy the idea of a day of innocent scares while we wait to see if a very real terror soon comes to our doors.
Though it might not be considered a classic Halloween song, here’s a scary song from CCR. Here’s their Bad Moon Rising.
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