We remember how good it is to be scared by a scary tale - so much better than being scared in real life! In stories, we just can’t resist seeking what’s out there - what’s down there. After we’ve charged far afield and frolicked and absorbed as much sun as we could through the warm months, it’s sober October that sits us down before the fire and makes us gaze into the darkness of things. I have to admit that October is the single most focused imaginative month. Much as I love the summer, much as I believe the hot months are the real incubator of the imagination, and that they are the closest months we get to Paradise in this life. October is in the chair, as Neil Gaiman might say - and has said! - check out his story “October Is In the Chair” in his collection Fragile Things. “It was getting very late when we came to a certain house that was not at all like the others on its block.”
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