Saturday, October 31, 2026

Special Feature: Selected Halloween Haiku for Your Reading "Pleasure"

My Dear Readers:

It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare.
-- Brackett, Halloween, 1978

And

I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.
--The Criminologist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show,  1975


Selected Haiku:

halloween twilight
army helicopters
fill the sky
 
Roberta Beary


pointed hats dip
into black inked sky
a constellation of witches

Karen A VandenBos


twilit sky
one grim reaper, two, three
forged of drones

night mist
taillights fading into
Halloween screams

twilight wind
a black skeleton rattling
against my door

Chen-ou Liu


tiger amulet 
on the front entrance ...
a grim reaper's stare

K.G. Munro


my bulldog
growls at a Grim Reaper 
the scythe falls first

Chen-ou Liu


trick-or-treating
the warmth
of the skeleton's hand

Michelle Schaefer


howling wind
the Grim Reaper
headless

All Saints' Day
drop by drop by drop
yesterday's blood

Chen-ou Liu


All Souls’ Eve  --
tipping the spirit level
this way & that

Sandra Simpson


All Souls Day
so many masks
left behind 

David McKe

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