halloween

Innocently reading a book of collected short stories, I read this one this morning, and made a note of the author, because I was surprised that the idea of a Human Hunt had even coelesced in someone's head in 1960. Obviously the trilogy of the Hunger Games is the well-known modern equivalent...

Last month on the 28th the 22nd annual Halloween parade in the city Kawasaki, Japan, took place. About two thousand people in costumes walked streets, with about a hundred and twenty thousand spectators watching on. Vampires, ghosts, skeletons and interestingly a group dressed as well-known...