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1. Trick or Treat!

Treat your mind (or trick it) with the following Halloween features at Counter-Currents:

• Jef Costello, “I Wake Up Screaming: My Top Ten Halloween Horror Flick Picks.”
• William de Vere, “All Hallows’ Eve: On Death & Remembrance.”
• Kathryn S., “‘For the Dead, They Travel Fast’: Sightings of the Phantom Horseman.”
• Hugh MacDonald, “An Amateur History of Halloween” (video)
• James O’Meara, “‘Did that Scarecrow Move?’ Reading Matter for Halloween.”
• Spencer J. Quinn, “The Big Black Guy: My Halloween Story”
• Thomas Steuben, “The War Against Halloween.”
• Leo Yankevich, “Halloween, 2006.”

Some more spooky reading:

• Practically everything listed in our “Remembering H. P. Lovecraft” commemoration.
• Jonathan Bowden, “Tragedy, Horror, & the Transcendent.”
• Peter Bradley, “The Darkside Is Always With Us: Tales from the Darkside.”
• Edmund Connelly, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Reactionary Morality Tale.”
• Timo Hännikäinen, “Folk and Horror.”
• Alex Kurtagic, “Paranormal Activity.“
• James J. O’Meara, ““Aickman, Robert. Man of Mystery”.”
• James J. O’Meara, “The BNP’s Red, White, & Blue Rosette of Horror: Exploring the Dark, Cramped World of Politically Correct Weird Fiction.”
• James J. O’Meara, “Cthulhu and a Cuppa: C. P. Webster’s Veddy British Horror.”
• James J. O’Meara, “The Dunsany Horror.”
• James J. O’Meara, “It’s Not Always Good to be King: The Folk Horror of Philip Loraine’s Day of the Arrow.“
• James J. O’Meara, “More Aryan than Human: The Return of Repressed White Wisdom in Rob Zombie’s Firefly Family Films.”
• James J. O’Meara, “The Name is Cthulhu. I Carry a Badge. Thirteen Really Cold Cases.”
• James J. O’Meara, “The Strange Case of the Swarthy Boy: Mittelholzer’s Mischling Horror.”
• James J. O’Meara, “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Fantastic Reality of David Abbott’s Dark Albion.”
• Christopher Pankhurst, “Albion’s Hidden Numina: Folk Horror Revival.”

2. Fundraiser Update

Thanks to our generous donors, this year’s fundraiser is now at $130,973.74. But we are still lagging behind where we were last year at this time: $164,346.46. Fortunately, our new matching grant of $20,000 has not been exhausted, so if you were planning to help, this is a great time to do so. Full information on how to help appears below.

3. This Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio

Angelo Plume again presides over this week’s Counter-Currents Radio. Get your questions and superchats in as soon as possible!

Join us at the normal time: noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 9 pm Central Europe at:

• Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio
• DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents
• Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents

4. How to Help Counter-Currents

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You can explore all your donation options on our Donate page.

Remember: those who fight for a better world live in it today.

Thank you again for your loyal readership and generous support.

Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief