DECORPSE
It is a time of year whose decorations are only ever eclipsed by the evergreen tinseled fairy lights of Christmas, and one infinitely more ghoulish.
Halloween is a day where we embrace the macabre and celebrate the grotesque.
This is a time where we willfully gut and de-brain pumpkins only to stab, gouge and carve a face-like countenance into its surface, then light it on fire from within. At Christmas, we erect trees and cover them in sparkling momentous.
At Halloween, we work hard to pillage our neighborhoods of treats, and deliver some unexpected tricks in return. At Christmas, we tear through a conveyor belt of easily obtained gifts.
At Halloween, we celebrate the things that go bump in the night and all things terrifying. At Christmas we turn a blind allegiance towards religion and peace on earth.
Which of the two celebrates the greater fictions?
Is a fat man with an elven workforce and flying reindeers any more likely than vampires, zombies, werewolves, and witches?
The peace an tranquility of Christmas will always be a wonderful time, but for me, the real joy if only ever hinted at, at lurking unknown that is half obscured in the shadows of All Hallow's Eve.
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