“Halloween” Articles

Spooky Season and the waning of the year is a regularly scheduled encounter with death, and I draw tremendous comfort from it.

What’s the harm in a young kid believing in the Great Pumpkin?

Poirot learns the limits of his overreliance on rationality, and is beckoned to the realm of faith and the light of life.

While boredom may be a first-world problem, disillusionment at being off track with one’s identity is universally human.

To participate in politics in 2020 seems to be an exercise in fear, like the call from Dark in Ray Bardbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Under the extreme stress of plagues and environmental disaster, people were undoubtedly looking for someone to blame, which—hmm, that sounds familiar.

On the last night of October, we gather up plastic jack-o-lanterns, light up sneakers, and shuffled candy wrappers. We look straight into the façade of evil victories and declare that hell has no hold on us.

The benevolence of the spirits in My Neighbor Totoro serves as a reminder that the spiritual realm—though mysterious and unlike our own—is not something to fear.

Fiction is what we turn to when we have nagging questions that we can’t quite put into more precise language.

There is something deeper that lingers in the human psyche—something more than the experience, or a twisted desire for evil—something that horror taps into and awakens.

It’s shockingly awful and shockingly compelling as horror because Paxton’s character remains so upsettingly loving and so fatherly throughout, clearly, sincerely believing in the killing he’s doing.

Even in the Hudson Valley, I think the larger appeal of Halloween is that our local ghosts can scare us, but we can, ultimately, domesticate them.

What is it about the idea of things, powers, and beings beyond nature that draws people into these stories?

They made Pirates a supernatural story set in the “real world” that helps us to grasp the spiritual realities that those drowning in the real tend to deny.

There is more to this world than meets the eye. Read all about it in this special edition of the Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

Happy Halloween from Seeing & Believing! In keeping with S&B tradition, the guys review two classics of the horror genre in honor of the season: The 1978 ‘Halloween’ and George Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’