Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’

DailyLit Readers Had a Literary Halloween

In our Question of the Week before Halloween we asked if you’ve ever dressed as a literary character for Halloween (or would like to) and encouraged you to send us pictures if you had. Here are two of our readers who took the plunge:

Here’s Asparagusqueen as a very dapper Edgar Allan Poe (check out the Raven in her arms):

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and emilyyoung–complete with fake nose-ring–as the edgy Lisbeth Salander from Steig Larsson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire:

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Thanks for sending in the photos! Hope you–and all our readers–had a happy Halloween.

Halloween Reads

The origins of All Hallow’s Eve go back to the Celts, whose autumn festival Samhain celebrates the end of the “lighter half” of the year and beginning of the “darker half.”

Come to the dark side with one of our spooky books. And have a very happy Halloween.