Five Bullets 10.31.25

Halloween Edition.

Good Morning Friends!

Happy Halloween! Since it’s the first time my Friday newsletter has fallen directly on October 31st, here’s what’s capturing my attention this Halloween:

“In Voluptate Mors” (Pleasure of Death) © Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos

• The Gaelic festival Samhain marked the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, when crops, animals and many people would die. During this time, the boundary between this world and the next was thin and spirits could cross over into our world so people wore costumes to protect themselves from the spirit’s spells.
  
  

• Check out my Halloween playlist! Perfect for trick-or-treating or while getting ready for your party.
  
  

• My favorite scary movies: Psycho, The Shining, Halloween, the original Dracula and Frankenstein, Sleepy Hollow, and Night of the Living Dead. And if you want to laugh, watch The Nightmare Before Christmas or Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
  
  

• “Walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson’s classic horror novel, is excellent and thoroughly creepy; it gives me chills every time I read it.
  
  

• New York City has it’s fair share of ghost stories and spooky history. Edgar Allen Poe wrote some of his best work while living on the Upper West Side and the Bronx.
  
  

That’s this week’s bullets! Now it’s your turn: What’s your favorite Halloween tradition?

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See you next week!

Keith.