I was thinking recently about our Halloween decorations, and how different people and kids are about what they perceive as “scary”. Some kids won’t even come up the walk, because the whole mood of our yard is just way too spooky. Some kids just want to set off all the props repeatedly. And some just rush up the walk, barely noticing the actual decor because they’re focused on the food (seriously – can’t blame ’em).
Having been decorating for Halloween for nearly twenty years now with a husband who adores the gory, bloody stuff, I’ve become pretty immune to most of it. I appreciate the decor for the spooky mood, and love everything in the glow of colored lights with fog swirling around it all, but that’s more of an artistic appreciation, rather than something to get my heart pumping. And I *love* the sound of spooky nursery rhymes and organ music. Who doesn’t, especially when the moon is full and high, right?
I think the thing most likely to give me chills would be a silent spectre flying through the night. A wispy something-or-other barely brushing past on its ghostly way to who-knows-where…or what. Something you feel more than you see, and sense more than you hear. It’s the quiet things you have to look out for, after all.
What is your personal “scariest thing”? The thing that gets your adrenaline running, and starts the what-if scenarios spinning through your head?
What makes you want to run, while simultaneously freezing you in place?
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