Friday, October 31, 2025

“The only spell she’s casting is the one that makes you forget your good sense.” Halloween 2025

A glamorous woman of the 1940s reclines for a Halloween-themed photograph, poised within a great wooden tub encircled by glistening apples. Adorned in a pointed witch’s hat and a dark, flowing gown, she tilts her head with coquettish grace as her teeth meet the fruit’s polished skin, her legs elegantly crossed upon the tub’s rim. The monochrome composition fuses autumnal mischief with the opulent allure of Hollywood’s golden age, transmuting the humble sport of apple-bobbing into an image of refined, tantalising sophistication.
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It hath been many a year since All Hallows’ Eve hath borne any true significance for me; yet here’s to those still young in spirit, who this night shall make merry beneath the flicker of candle and the whisper of autumn’s breath. —Arthur Newhook, 31 October 2025.

Copyright 2025, Arthur Newhook.

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