This Is Halloween….

I love Halloween — though as I mentioned in my interview with Historic Hudson Valley, I'm more of a Christmas person than a Halloween person, mainly because I'm one of the world's great chickens. 

Don't get me wrong — I love horror movies and horror novels.  But I was one of those kids — and I'm now one of those adults — who can't get my mind to shut off once I go to bed.  I watch a scary movie, or read a scary book, then go to bed and lie there in the dark, the covers pulled up around my...