Well Halloween is a couple weeks gone and we are well into
the Thanksgiving hype, but I need to talk about my holiday read for Halloween.
This year I read Death Makes a Holiday: a cultural history of Halloween
by David J. Skal.
This is a book of essays about different events, history,
and paraphernalia of Halloween as we know it today. There were essays on events
like, the candy man, Halloween parades, horror films, and haunted houses, along
with a short history of the holiday and how witches came to be a symbol of
Halloween. All the essays were informative, entertaining, and researched. Skal
makes it easy to get into the spirit and see this spooky holiday from an
industry and eerie perspective.
I have read other nonfiction books on Halloween and its
origins, but this book focuses on the current celebration of Halloween while nodding
its head at where we derived these traditions from. I thought the book was
fresh and fun.
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