Jennifer Hillier

Ten things I love about Halloween

Oct 26, 2010 | Uncategorized

10.  Halloween parties.  Doesn’t matter that we’re grown-ups, Halloween gives everybody an excuse to be a kid again.  It’s fun to dress up.  Which leads me to…

9.  The costumes.  Especially the ones that are gory.  Bring on the zombies, the vampires, and the severed limbs!  If your costume makes me gag, so much the better.  Speaking of gagging, I also love…

8.  Halloween-inspired food.  Cookies shaped like spiders, or jello that looks like brains.  Someday I’d love to bake a huge cake in the shape of a person, and underneath the flesh-toned icing would be layers of red velvet cake with pockets of red-tinted vanilla custard that oozes.  Imagine cutting into that sucker!  And on a similar note…

7.  The candy.  I get so ridiculously excited when I see those bags filled with miniature chocolate bars at the grocery store.  What is it about food in miniature size that makes it seem so much tastier?  And the kids appreciate it too, especially when they’re…

6.  Trick-or-treating.  Man, I wish I was little again so I could go door-to-door for free candy.  Nothing quite like it, is there?  And I always knew which houses gave out the best stuff, because of their…

5.  Decorations.  This year, we have cobwebs, a spider, a yowling battery-operated black cat (who scares the crap out of our living, breathing cats), and a few electric pumpkins.  Okay, so plug-in pumpkins are cheating, but not everybody is good at creating…

4.  Jack-o-lanterns.  I’m amazed how good some people are at carving jack-o-lanterns.  It really takes skill!  Then again, how does one get good at carving ANYTHING?  It makes one wonder.  Besides, all that work would make me crave…

3.  Pumpkin spice lattes.  Perhaps this is more of a Fall thing and not so much of a Halloween thing, but who cares?  They’re so yummy they belong on this list.  As do…

2.  Horror movies.  I love a good scare anytime of year, but horror movies are especially fun at Halloween, no?  A few of my faves:  The Exorcist, Candyman, and Carrie. Too bad none of these movies have my all-time favorite Halloween song included in the soundtrack, which just happens to be…

1.  The Monster Mash.  This song is only played for a few days out of every year, and it never fails to put me in the Halloween spirit!

What do YOU love about Halloween?

And speaking of Halloween, there’s still time to enter our 3-3-3 contest over at Killer Chicks, where we’re challenging you to write a flash fiction story using the words killer, chicks, and Halloween.  A $50 Amazon gift card could be yours!

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