Hailey Piper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCEMETERY DANCE: When does the Halloween season begin for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
HAILEY PIPER: Horror folk are often celebrating spooky stuff all year, but Halloween is a special time since everyone else gets in on it. For me, it begins on the first day of autumn. The moment the calendar turns and that wind starts in, we’re firmly in Halloween time all the way to that first November morning.<\/div>\n
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What are some Halloween traditions you observe each year?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Much of the yearly celebrating comes in what we watch and read. It’s become difficult these days to join parties, hayrides, and haunted houses, but we make the yearly trek to a Spirit Halloween; its wonders only open this season.<\/div>\n
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Do you decorate your home? A lot or a little?\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I have horror stuff up year-round, so it can be difficult to distinguish, but we try to add a few autumn colors and spooky bits to the existing monstrosities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Do you dress up each year? If so, what’s your favorite costume you’ve worn?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Not anymore, unfortunately, but back when I did, I think my favorite costume was as a grim reaper. There was a veil inside the hood to hide my face, which made it extra spooky.<\/div>\n
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What is your favorite Halloween memory?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
There was a haunted hayride up in New York one year that would travel out at night. And while it had the usual people in masks or side road skits, a moment that awed me was when we were passing a field where three giant glow-in-the-dark skeletons were sitting. As the truck was passing, one of them bounded to its feet and chased after us. It was a giant marionette puppeted by someone in black below so they blended in at night. It was a wonder and I loved it.<\/div>\n
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What stories, books, and movies best encapsulate Halloween for you?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo courtesy of Hailey Piper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nI’m supposed to say\u00a0The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/i>, but I kind of see that as a Christmas movie (it’s the holiday the characters focus on). Certainly the original\u00a0Halloween<\/i>\u00a0feels rich in the holiday. Ray Bradbury’s\u00a0The Halloween Tree<\/i>\u00a0is a crash course both on the holiday and humanity’s association with death. Also the anthology\u00a0Haunted Nights<\/i>, edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Do you have stories, books or movies that you watch every year?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
My wife and I ring in autumn and the spooky season each year with the 2013 mini-series\u00a0
Over the Garden Wall<\/i>. Its autumn aesthetics, monsters, themes, and parable quality about death and thin spaces makes it a perfect Halloween time opener. We often watch\u00a0The VVitch<\/i>\u00a0this time of year, though not every single October.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Since we’re talking about Halloween: what’s your favorite movie in the Halloween<\/em> franchise?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Probably the most predictable answer, but the original\u00a0
Halloween<\/i>. It’s a comfort movie, even something I put on when I’m sick. But I also really enjoy\u00a0Halloween III: Season of the Witch.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Have you written any fiction or nonfiction involving Halloween?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Oh yes! My book\u00a0
Benny Rose the Cannibal King<\/i>\u00a0from Unnerving Books is my love letter to the holiday, about teen girls, a prank gone wrong, and a ghostly urban legend come to life. And there are a couple short stories, like “Demons of Particular Taste” in my collection\u00a0Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy<\/i>, where a woman possessed by a demon seeks her girlfriend’s unorthodox help. Autumn and Halloween are a ripe time for ghost stories.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
What projects are you working on currently, and what are some recent releases of yours you’d like to tell people about?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Right now I’m working on a few short stories, editing a novel\u00a0
A Light Most Hateful<\/i>\u00a0coming from Titan Books in 2023, and working on a new book about a haunted seaside town. And most recently my horror, noir, dark fantasy novel\u00a0No Gods for Drowning<\/i>\u00a0released from Polis Books.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you know anything about Cemetery Dance, you know that the arrival of October…The Spooky Season…is a very special time of year for us. To celebrate, we’ve invited some of our favorite spinners of spooky tales to share their favorite Halloween traditions and memories with us. 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