A year or so ago Alan Friswell, the bloke who made the CFZ Feegee Mermaid and also the guy responsible for some of the most elegantly macabre bloggo postings, wrote me an email. He had an idea for a new series for the bloggo. Quite simply, he has an enormous collection of macabre, fortean, odd and disturbing magazine and newspaper articles, and he proposed to post them up on the bloggo.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Although Halloween has its origins in Britain, it's mainly known as an American holiday, principally because of the Irish settlers bringing their beliefs and customs to the US after fleeing the potato famine of the mid-1800s. Britain has only started celebrating Halloween in the last fifteen years or so, but we have a long way to go before we can compete with our American cousins in their embracing of all things ghoulish and ghastly. I feel postively deprived that we didn't celebrate Halloween earlier--all that trick-or-treating that I missed out on....
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