From Ghoul to Yule (We’re Just Not Halloween People)
In the 21st century the holiday season begins when summer ends. Stores capitalize on the Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year’s Eve sales boon. The summer landscape transforms into a graveyard that quickchanges into the North Pole. Spider webs give way to icicles. Zombies concede the lawn to reindeer. Strobe lights dim into candles. Tombstones become nativities. Ghostly shrills quiet into carols. Candy corn is replaced by walnuts and cheap suckers by candy canes. The slide from ghoul […]