Almost four months have passed since our favorite night of the year. Christmas has ended, and All Hallow's Eve is a long nine months away. I sit here listening to the haunting music of Nox Arcana, on a cold, windy, rainy night near the end of January with thoughts of Halloween occupying my mind. I miss it; long for it even, and so I decide to search the Web for more images, stories, or poems to add to my already huge Halloween collection. It doesn't take long until I come across something that my eyes immediately become fixed upon. A simple typing of the word "Halloween" into a search engine, and dozens of dark images pertaining to Halloween appear on my screen. I am searching for a new muse, and almost immediately I have found one. He sits atop his black steed as the moonlight creeps steadily through the twisted branches of a haunted forest, illuminating an ancient gravestone. A victim of the Horseman, perhaps? He waits there for the next one to come along, surrounded by stillness, his large gloved hand gripping the scarred end of his sword. His horse, one leg raised as if ready to lunge forward at the urging of his immortal master, chomps anxiously at his bit. He knows that at any moment the race will begin and he and his dark rider will once again be off in pursuit of another helpless soul.
And so they wait in the blackness, quietly, a thick fog dampening the fallen leaves, with only a glowing pumpkin to light the way. Its twisted grin and glowing eyes a reminder to all to beware, for it is Devil's Night. It is October 31st. His rampage begins.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow....one of my favorites. I look at this picture and I want it to be October 31st all over again.
3 comments:
Great post. Thanks for bringing back the magic :) It is kinda of odd that you and I both have a "headless horseman" type post today....but yours is cooler! :D
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers!
I SO know how you feel! I find myself pining for October as well. The past few days we've had some almost fall-like weather, and it's really made me wish it was the Halloween season once again!
hehehe Thanks,guys! :) Glad you enjoyed the new blog. I haven't been on here in some time, and something just got into me last night that gave me the urge to search for "Halloween". I'm sure you can understand that! ;) Frog Queen, you also wrote a "headless horseman" blog? Oooh, I'll have to check it out! That is pretty weird that we both wrote about the same thing!
Gill-Man...yep, don't ya just love it when you suddenly get hit hard by the "Halloween bug"?! I couldn't resist searching for new images last night, and words just started flowing when I saw that picture. I've always loved that story, mostly because he's a horseman. I love horses!
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