Hallowe'en film, comic and book recommendations of yesteryear

Autumn, for me, is the most beautiful and in some ways, the saddest, season. I'm in the same school as Ray Bradbury and Jack Kerouac on this one. While I certainly don't subscribe to everyone Kerouac suggests, I did journey through a significant Kerouac phase. Bradbury I have never fully recovered from. In fact, I am currently reading Jonathan R. Eller's Bradbury Beyond Apollo, the third biography in the astonishingly well-done series, the first being Becoming Bradbury and the second, Ray Bradbury Unbound.

For me, inspiration runs to a fever pitch even as the leaves turn, fall, and  the, heady wine-like smell seems to pervade the world. I used to always pen a Halloween story, from grade six or so onward, up through university, and afterward. It is no coincidence that my first novel, Town & Train, was literary horror. So, I am always seeking out Halloween viewing and reading. 

Over the years, on this blog, I have made the strong case for Hallowe'en films and comics and books. You can find links to all of these posts below:  

- From 2019: Baseball-style Review: Glen Hirshberg’s The Ones Who Are Waving: Tales of the Strange, Sad and Wondrous*

- From 2017: Halloween Reads: Alex de Campi's and Jerry Ordway's Semiautomagic, de Campi's Grindhouse*

- From 2016: Best Halloween Movie Picks*

- From 2015: Scary Halloween reading, Lisa Morton, Halloween aficionado extraordinaire *
                      Town & Train: A Good, Spooky Halloween Read*
                      It Follows is Astonishing and Creepy: A Film Review*

- From 2014: Last-minute All Hallows' Eve reading*
- From 2013: Halloweenish Viewing for Five-year-olds*
                      Best (Read) in 2013: Peter Atkins' Rumours of the Marvellous*

* = Shared recently on social media