To thine own self be true

Knight on a horse.

Flowers remaining intact just before Halloween.

Card tucked inside an envelope explaining how to seal it.

Danielle Smith: Enemy of Alberta Children, too, now that she’s threatening to take away the public health right for mask mandates.

Adriana LaGrange: Another Enemy of Aberta has already declared herself previously on disallowing masks in classrooms. “Children First”? Reality: Not!

Corrupt Tyler Shandro: whose day in court is yet to come. Imagine the hypocrisy of him weighing in on Smith’s UCP-biased legal scheme above.

1. The Ultimate Scary Kids Movie: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)

2. Ultimate Ghost Stories: The Innocents (1961)–Truman Capote-adapted version of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting (1964)–based on Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House (which I once taught)

3. Best Roger Corman Adaptations of Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death (both Vincent Price tours de forces)

4. Best horror Hitchcocks (for those who have not seen them) Psycho, The Birds

5. Best Vampire Flick: Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula

6. Best Canadian Horror Movie: The Changeling (George C. Scott)

7. Best Kid/Devil Pic: The Omen (Gregory Peck)

8. Best Nicholas Roeg Atmospheric ESP Pic: Don’t Look Now (Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie)

9. Best Stalker/ESP Pic: The Eyes of Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway & Tommy Lee Jones)

10. Best Early Movies` Special Effects: The Invisible Man (Claude Rains)

11. Best Helpless Terrorized Blind Girl Pic: See No Evil (Mia Farrow)

12. Best Mutant Invasion Flick: Them! (James Whitmore)

13. Best Modern Witches` Tale: Rosemary`s Baby

14. Best Humorous Farce: Arsenic and Old Lace

(and Mom Creativity: Above, calculator and illustrated book of rocks.)

‘The Killer’ has passed.
Obit: Jerry Lee Lewis, 87.