Good evening, my little Halloweenies,

Today I’ve been really enjoying illustrations of owls by Vincent Rose Peraza for ‘Owltober’, which has a whole month of owl species and thematic prompts.

(Thank you Rainbow!)

I’m super into this 4-episode series of The Allusionist (a podcast about language by Helen Zaltzman) exploring a literary mystery - ‘about Swedish and Icelandic translations of Dracula that played fast and loose with the original text’.

(Thank you Jim!)

And to get things spooooky as we head into the big day, here’s a properly creepy painting, Witches Going to Their Sabbath (1878) by Luis Ricardo Falero:

(Thanks Louis!)

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Til tomorrow,
Laura

October 29, 2026