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Published on Halloween in 1945 in the Arizona Republic. Editorial cartoon by Reg Manning (1905-1986). Manning won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951.






"True black magic is performed with the aid of a demoniacal spirit, who serves the sorcerer for the length of his earthly life, with the understanding that after death the magician shall become the servant of his own demon. For this reason, a black magician will go to inconceivable ends to prolong his physical life, since there is nothing for him beyond the grave."
- Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings Of All Ages


Gaze into her eyes if you dare. Just don't do it tonight!



"And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children’...And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments...And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants...who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind...and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones." – (Book of Enoch)
The Female Illuminati



Music: Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) from album "Sorcerer" by Tangerine Dream
Movie: Sorcerer (aka Wages of Fear) by William Friedkin


This Halloween let's all remember WWII's Ghost Army, America's first mobile tactical deception unit.




Hard-to-find doomsday novel by Helen Clarkson (McCloy). Published by Torquil in 1959. Helen McCloy (1904-1994) best known for her post-apocalyptic novel "The Last Day" (1959) (as Helen Clarkson)—which you can read online as paper copies are incredibly scarce and expensive–and wrote a handful of speculative short stories of which three appear to be science fiction. Mysteries and non-genre fiction made up the majority of her output.

A Novel of the Day After Tomorrow

"THE LAST DAY"

by Helen Clarkson

To the next generation

It was my good fortune to listen to a great scientist discussing what a global nuclear war would be like. He was shocked that some people were talking about what would happen the second or third month. He said, "I am not sure there will be a second or third day."

            Senator Anderson of New Mexico
            as reported in the Congressional
            Record for February 4, 1958.

Another successful work is the eighth Basil Willing novel, Through a Glass, Darkly (1950), a supernatural puzzle in the tradition of John Dickson Carr. "If you want to scare yourself still in bed, it's just the thing for you," the English writer Pamela Hansford Johnson said of the book. Boucher and McComas praised the novel as "an eerie study of the phenomenon of the Doppelganger, . . . handled with such disquieting ambivalence that the 'rational' solution seems only an instance of man's folly in the face of the unknowable."

The past few months have produced three imaginative novels so completely admirable in concept and execution that we find it flatly impossible to pick a best-of-the-period. In alphabetical order by author these are Eric Linklater’s a spell for old bones (Macmillan), a satiric epic of First Century Scotland complete with giants, battles, sex, humor and an Elizabethan amplitude of wording and color; Helen McCloy’s through a glass, darkly (Random), nominally a detective story, but actually an eerie study in the phenomenon of the Doppelganger, fetch, or phantom double, handled with such disquieting ambivalence that the “rational” solution seems only an instance of man’s folly in the face of the unknowable...

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fall 1950 (pg 82).

Short bio.


Oct 31, 1986: at Dominguez High School in Compton, CA, a World War III announcement went out over the P.A. system. The principal, Fred Easter, took full responsibility for the Halloween prank: "I did approve it." The high school hoax made national news...




Blinken dresses son as Zelensky for White House Halloween party


Considering daddy and his friends are planning to martyr the Kiev Kokehead before the end of the year, I'd say this is a wee bit creepy. Looks like Killary is in the House too.

I

In screaming woods and empty rooms
or gloomy vaults and sunken tombs;
Where monks and nuns in dust decay
and shadows dance at close of day.

II

Where the bat dips on the wing
and spectral choirs on breezes sing;
Where swords of ancient battles clash
and shimmering shades for freedom dash.

III

Where raging storms at midnight howl
and distant rolls of thunder growl.
Where the hounds of hell take flight
and ghost clouds race across the night.

IV

Where silver webs of spiders weave
and star-crossed lovers take their leave.
Where curses lay the spirits low
and mortal footsteps fear to go.

V

Where death holds life in grim embrace
its lines etched on the sinner's face.
Where e'er the march of time is flaunted
voices cry - "this place is haunted."

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