Halloween Magic
 

Talking about Christmas in the Salem thread made me think about Halloween ... and how I was always disappointed in it as a kid.

Unlike Christmas, Halloween never seemed to live up to itself. You spend the whole month watching scary movies, seeing people put frightening things out on their doorsteps, all leading up to the magical night that is Halloween ...

and then, you get some candy and go home. And it's over.

When I was a kid, I used to watch the moon on Halloween night, hoping to catch a glimpse of a witch on her broom. I expected SOMETHING truly scary to happen ... maybe see a ghost or a skeleton out and about in a graveyard, or see something ghastly in the window of that abandoned house on the corner ... but I never did. I was let down, year after year.

Even on Christmas, the parents put out the presents to at least provide SOME evidence that Santa Claus is real and there truly is something magical about Christmas. But they do nothing for the kids like this on Halloween.

Which is why I have decided that on Halloween night, every year until the year I die, I'm going to make it my duty to scare the explosive shits out of some kid.

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Quite the humanitarian, aren't you Stingy?



Would that be stodgy shit?

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lol

Perhaps. Depends on what the kid ate, I supose.

So ... I take it nobody else ever felt the same about Halloween when they were kids?

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I refuse to let this thread die until SOMEONE acknowledges they felt the same way about Halloween as I did when I was a kid!

I know exactly how you felt. that is actually why i started writing when i was younger. i used to come up with the most brutal, evil plots i could think of (which were pretty good for a kid) and write them out.

i always wanted to be ring-side for a zombie outbreak or a rabid werewolf massacre. :D

I think i saw someone egg a car once......:rolleyes:

Thank you!!!







Go down in flames, you pretty little "I thought you relevant but that was all a ruse" thread, you!

Once i was in high school, this was the time of year i owuld tear into my ravenloft books for AD&D, and later, my freinds and i would play it. October is the perfect month for gothic horror. Real life was always just such a letdown.

Call of Cthulhu was my thing. Got rid of the manuals, etc. a long time ago. I should pick 'em up again ... although, that would mean I would have to actually make some friends so I would have someone to play with.

That reminded me, when i was in junior high i started collectin dragon magazine, this one was the second issue i ever bought:

http://www.rpgunited.com/picture/magazines/dm138.jpg

I still have it and it is still my favorite issue. it has tons of creatures in it, and some great undead stories. There is an article called "the ungratefull dead" which deals with various types of undead (zombies, ghouls, skeletons), and has a story or short essay on the history of the creature, or a story that refences them :D

NO STINGY....DON'T LET THE MAGIC DIE.

This is a good little thread and I for one won't let it go. I shall bump it every chance I get.

LIVE HALLOWEEN THREAD....LIVE!

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I have the main book for that game. i love seeing the pictures they made based on lovecrafts descriptions.

thanks newb. You rock, man.

Vod ... the nerd meter is getting a little high, my friend. :D

Yes! Me too! That was a tough thing to do, since Lovecraft deliberately used minimal description. Most of his monsters are "too horrible to describe". LoL

Yep :D

Years ago one halloween I was feeling generous, so I gave out lots of sweest to kids who came treating at the door. Word must have got round to the other kids in the neighbourhood about my generocity... and for about 3 hours there were constant knocks on the door every 10 minutes or so, it eventually drove me up the wall.

some of the cheeky little buggers came back for more and when I said I recognise them , they told me to shut up because I'm old and forgetfull, or something to that effect, and told me to give them some sweets, and I gave in.

it caried on for longer and they started messing about outside, so I was horrible to them. I waited for the next lot to walk up to the door, and I stood in the room above the porch with the window open and lights out, with a bucket of warm water, I didnt fill it with cold as that would have been a bit nasty...

hahah the buggers wernt ready for that one. They ran off shouting and wet, needless to say I didnt get anymore visitors that night. :D

What are you doing way down here little thread.

Ok, I suppose if I'm gonna bump this I should post something relevant so as not to piss off HER. [ HER BEING ARIOCH ]

When I was a kid we didn't have the extravagant costumes of you spoiled bastards of today. There wasn't a "Halloween Super Store" on every corner. I would get an old cork from a discarded wine bottle, burn the edges, wipe it around my lower face put on some of my dads old clothes and WHAMMO...instant bum. Of course we don't call them bums in this PC world of today, more like job & house challenged. Then my brother and I would go from house to house with our old pillow cases and collect many treats.
Only to bring them home and have my parents mix them all together and give us some only when they saw fit.
I mean whats wrong with eating 5 candy bars before supper?

If they gave kids 2 days off, I think they would enjoy Halloween a little more.

I'm sorry I never felt that way ... My parents loved Halloween just as much as I did as a kid and still do to this day .. They would go to extravagent lengths each year to give me one really big scare.

Then, as I got older, instead we'd scare trick or treaters together..

Well....look at this....a Halloween thread.
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goddamn, you ain't king of the long post for nothing

well i guess i was a lucky kid.......b/c when i ws younger we all used to go to my uncles house ......who lives way out in the woods.........after a bonfire and a couple hours of tricker treakting and the like we would all have to go to sleep(the kids) in this big green bus thing that had bunk beds inside it, while the adults started drinking and doing adult things ......... well almost every year my uncle would come up with somethin different but one year that stand out in my memory ..........he put this mask on and ran into the bus with a cranked chainsaw (a chainsaw that he had removed the chain on(but we didnt know)).......anyway my cousin pissed himself my brother and i just about did and we all ran outta the bus truly terrified.......OMG good times!!

Sounds like good times. Every family has a crazy uncle. I guess I'm probably the crazy uncle in mine.

amen to that, brother! i love being the crazy uncle! vodstok, stingy, yall sent me way back with the games. me and my brother and friends would stay up all night playing d&d, and call of cthulhu. loved those games. ive got that dragon magazine also. kept a subscription for 2-3 years. the best thing to do to kids is to get a scare crow costume, put a forty watt bulp in your porch light, and sit on the porch in a chair with a big cauldron of candy beside you, or in your lap. then when they try to steal the candy, scare the shit out of them.

You've never lived in Detroit, have you?

no doubt, i'm still waiting for survivor:New Orleans, ninth ward.

im sorry, for those who dont know what i'm talking about, 5th, 7th, and 9th ward in n.o. is the souths version of vietnam or iraq. people get murdered every day of the year there, in an area no bigger than maybe 3-4 square miles. for the longest time it was the murder capitol of the u.s. per capita. what i think would be funny would be to take about 20 people, drop them off at, say, 8:00pm, dead center of ninth ward, and whoever walks out gets 1 mill.

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i loved halloween as a kid,i love it as an adult.the methods have changed but the spirit remains the same.that is to say "the magic we'll never die".....you gotta remember that halloween's a pagen holliday and while the west has done it's best to candy-coat it will never be as widely embraced as christmas.


...damn you are the king of the long post!:D

Lol, no. When I say "something ghastly in the window of that abandoned house on the corner", I don't mean a crack addict.

I grew up in a small Canadian town ... and I still think it was the perfect town to grow up in. You could walk down the sidewalks and trick or treat at every house in the town (not so today, where I live).

i love hallowwen, especialy since right after is my bday (nov 2). decorations r cool as shit, but our neigborhood hasnt changed in a while and everyones grown up. everyone is fullasticks in their asses talkin bout 'arent ut oo old to be trick or treating ' and its ALWAYS the peopel giving out the cheap ass candy.

so we have like NO trick or treaters ever which suck cuz its so boring. nothin happening, not lively at ALL. whereas at my friends, or cousins neighborhood theres hella kids, hella decorations etc etc

this year im going to my friends, gonna help her bag a shitload of candy to give out, then im gona go out with her little brother who is 12 and go trick or treating. im 5'2 and i can act like a idiot so i dont think ill get yelled at. and if i do, they gonna get some nasty!!!!! i duno what im gonna dress up as yet tho. i was gonna do something kinda sexy but ya nkow, kids.

B.

omg. i just got a good idea. im gonna dress up as a crow and go CAW CAW CAW all night. i do a great one.

now thatll scare the fuck out of em me thinks. but odds are ill lose my voice LOL

:D :D :D

B.

get this shit, i live in a very religious area, and this year the town has decided that trick or treating would be held in the park, along the walking trail, which ie like 1/4 of a mile. its gonna suck.

This thread has turned into newb's Frankenstein's monster. He keeps bumping it with electricity when it seems to be dying down. lol

IT'S ALIVE....IT'S ALIIVVEE

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As a kid, I felt much the same as you Stingy Jack. In fact, as an adult I still feel the same way. I've always loved Halloween, but it's a lot different now than it used to be. I guess it's partly because it's not as safe as it used to be.