Oddity of the Week: October Reading
Created | Updated Sep 30, 2012
It's October already. Time to read scary stuff.
Oddity of the Week: October Reading
The WPA1 was big on libraries. This poster, by Albert M Bender, encourages readers to get into the Hallowe'en mood by diving into a scary book. The poster was made sometime between 1936 and 1940, but we think it's just as much fun today.
That fella looks pretty frightened – no wonder, what with the witch and the ghost and the bat and the funny, canted house. There appears to be a monster under his bed, too. We'd recommend sleeping with the lights on.
What do you read in October? No, besides 101 Ways to Deal with Leaves. What tickles the hairs on the back of your neck? Poe, Lovecraft, Stephen King? Or do you turn on the sports channel until it all blows over?
Be thinking scary thoughts. The Post would like to have them come the 31st. In the meantime, do a little goblin-y reading. But get out in that bright blue weather, too. Maybe take your ereader along for a walk?
