{"id":22954,"date":"2014-09-09T05:39:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T10:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22954"},"modified":"2014-09-09T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T11:07:00","slug":"all-hallows-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22954","title":{"rendered":"All Hallow&#8217;s Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October of 2010 Neil Gaiman posted <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2010\/10\/modest-proposal-that-doesnt-actually.html\">A Modest Proposal (that doesn&#8217;t actually involve eating anyone)<\/a>, in which he mused that there aren&#8217;t enough traditions which involve giving books and suggested a solution to that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I propose that, on Hallowe&#8217;en or during the week of Hallowe&#8217;en, we give each other scary books. Give children scary books they&#8217;ll like and can handle. Give adults scary books they&#8217;ll enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>I propose that stories by authors like John Bellairs and Stephen King and Arthur Machen and Ramsey Campbell and M R James and Lisa Tuttle and Peter Straub and Daphne Du Maurier and Clive Barker and a hundred hundred others change hands &#8212; new books or old or second-hand, beloved books or unknown. Give someone a scary book for Hallowe&#8217;en. Make their flesh creep&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=12508\">wrote<\/a> about the tradition back in 2011, but was just reminded about it by this retweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\">Gaiman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Come get your All Hallows Read posters. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\">@neilhimself<\/a> approved! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ermypQrNfr\">pic.twitter.com\/ermypQrNfr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sabrina Snow Witch (@introvertedwife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/introvertedwife\/status\/507681622091915264\">September 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tradition that&#8217;s well worth supporting, and there are plenty of ways to participate.  Gift a book to a friend, or give one&#8211;along with a nice tip&#8211;to the pizza delivery guy.  Bring a printout of the poster to your local library and suggest a spooky read-a-thon.  Arrange a book-swap party: Have everyone bring a favorite scary book (with which they can bear to part) and leave with a different one.  Read from a book of age-appropriate spooky stories at a child&#8217;s Halloween party and send the guests home with copies.<\/p>\n<p>And if you hand out books to trick-or-treaters, I hope you follow the advice of the All Hallows Read site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allhallowsread.com\/the-faq\/\">FAQ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can give out scary books or comics to trick or treaters on Hallowe&#8217;en if you want to, obviously. (We recommend looking the child in the eye and saying, &#8220;Take it. Read it. Trust me&#8230; around here&#8230; a book can be&#8230; safer than candy.&#8221; Then chuckling to yourself, as if remembering something unfortunate that happened to some of the local children only last year.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October of 2010 Neil Gaiman posted A Modest Proposal (that doesn&#8217;t actually involve eating anyone), in which he mused that there aren&#8217;t enough traditions which involve giving books and suggested a solution to that: I propose that, on Hallowe&#8217;en or during the week of Hallowe&#8217;en, we give each other scary books. Give children scary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22954"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23049,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954\/revisions\/23049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}