[Editor's note - I hereby declare that I am not responsible for any and all acts that the C. O. may commit tomorrow night. Since he was indeed born on the last day of October he tends to get creepy on All Hallow's Eve. The rest of the year he's just plain weird.]
Before I return to official blogging duties let me entice the gentle reader with one more classic ghost story, written in 1904: "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by Montague Rhodes James. This tale still gives me the shivers whenever I think of it. For more ghastly suggestions for supernatural thrills go to this link.
Don't be scared - stay up late tonight reading, and then sleep tight my dearies.....
Oh, and Happy Halloween.
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