Since Halloween is tomorrow, blogging will be even lighter than usual for me since I will either be witness to soul-wrenching, sanity-shattering terror as I use the blasphemous knowledge gleaned from a lifetime of research to conduct obscene rituals which will open the gates to untold madness and undreamed vistas of mind searing horror or I could be going to dinner in Downtown Greenville then handing out candy at my place while trading ideas via email with the few other witches and warlocks (yeah Wiccans, I said warlocks, choke on it) left who remember what Halloween was supposed to mean on how to convince Wiccans they are in fact not Witches. I honestly haven’t decided yet.

There was a time, my friends, a glorious time, when Night herself trembled before the specter of the revelries to come and begged the Sun to shine its light on the earth for just a little longer. Now these damn Wiccans have turned Halloween into Earth Day 2, if they aren’t too busy lecturing some poor bastard they cornered in a bar on the “patriarchy” while dressed up as some character from Harry Potter. Even those filthy devil worshipers sit around complaining about Capitalism and praying for world peace nowadays. HUMBUG!  The gods themselves snicker at the so-called Sabbats of today.

*Sigh* Don’t worry about me I’ll muddle through. But if any of you do anything more interesting this Halloween and have pictures send them along. And by interesting I don’t mean photos of you dressed up as Dracula in a bar. But here are some links for you to enjoy if you, like me, are going to be stuck raising an eyebrow at drunken co-eds rather than conjuring up a good old fashioned Halloween.

First, some treats for loyal readers who will no doubt be suffering horribly while I abandon them for my festivities:

I just started a new crime blog called Greenville Dragnet. Check it out as fellow blogger Joe Friday and I cover all the happenings in Greenville County, South Carolina.

H.P. Lovecraft’s classic work The Outsider beautifully translated into a short gothic masterpiece by an amateur filmmaker at YouTube. Amateurs are putting better horror on the Internet these days than Hollywood is putting on screen.

One exception of course is the annual Horrorfest event run by After Dark films. Actually it used to be an exception, now they’re releasing the “socially relevant” horror film Zombies of Mass Destruction and have done away with the Ms. Horrorfest contest. Is nothing sacred?

Ghost Town reappears every year to bring you 31 days of sonic evil. Love them.

Lovecraft meets real life – The Hadron Collider is creating a particle so unnatural that its future existence is exerting a negative influence on the collider’s past. In other words, the future product of the collider’s experiments is sabotaging the collider in the past.

Lefty douchebag Celina Gray, executive director of the Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma (of course from New Jersey) is shutting down a haunted house that was themed as the Asylum of Terror. She claims she got dozens of complaints from people offended by the portrayal of “Dementia, paranoia, violent sociopathic behaviors…” as scary. No, really.

The Guardian has a decent write up of the career of Artur Machen. His novella The Great God Pan is something every person must read.

Omar Abdelaal attempts an ax murder just before Halloween. In public. On video.

Overrated “rock” star Sting claims Obama was “sent by God” to save us. I guess Sting will be high priest of Obama’s unlistenable cult.

Witchcraft doing their song Chylde of Fire from the album Firewood. Great band.

Great Satan’s Girlfriend has a great post called Autumn’s Violins dealing with the situation in Pakistan, the Taliban and the administrations “monotonous languor.” Why Yes, it is a Verlaine quote. I prefer Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell myself.

Pumpkinrot is one of my favorite Halloween blogs.

Fiona Horne is an illustration of all that’s wrong with Wicca. She’s also naked alot. Someone told me she was pretty hot but … meh. I’ve seen hotter. Not hotter Wiccans mind you, in that respect she’s a big fish in a small pond.

My favorite conspiracy theorist thinks confessions made by witches being tortured in the middle ages could be true because they sound “sincere.”

And speaking of conspiracy theories, Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corrigan says the swine flu is an Obama conspiracy.

Happy Halloween.