Some readings to get you in the Holiday Spirit, just in case they’re not sufficiently so doing sufficiently in your ward Fall festivals this weekend!

The First Presidency Halloween Devotional

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Music for a Sunday Morning, Part 7: Leonard Cohen’s “You Want It Darker” and Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young” for Your Halloween

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Halloween, by Robert Burns (Annotated Reading)

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Excerpt From Intro to Modern Death

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Excerpt: The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands

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On Missionaries Appropriating Films: Ghost

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On “Ocean Breathes Salty” by Modest Mouse

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On Robi Draco Rosa’s “Vagabundo”, Mission Music, and The Terrible Questions

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Day of the Dead in English

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Music for a Sunday Morning, Part 20: Nearing the end–New Order’s “Ceremony” and David Bowie’s “Blackstar”

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Excerpt–Under My Vodou: Haiti, Revolution, and Zombie Transformation as Liberation in Alejo Carpentier’s “The Kingdom of This World” and Brian Moore’s “No Other Life”

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THE MONSTER MASH, BY BOBBY “BORIS” PICKETT AND THE CRYPT-KICKERS [ANNOTATED READINGS]

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DRAGULA, BY ROB ZOMBIE [ANNOTATED READINGS]

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BRIEF NOTES ON JUST LIKE HEAVEN AND JON HEDER

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A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS VS. IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN

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ON GHOSTS, BY ALBERT AYLER

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Waiting for October, by Polaris [Annotated Readings]

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On Half Light, by Low

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FROM THE FAMILIAR TO HOUSE OF LEAVES: MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI OUT OF PROVO, UTAH [UPDATED]

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FIVE & 1/2 MINUTE HALLWAY, BY POE OUT OF PROVO, UT [ANNOTATED READINGS]

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REVIEW: TOM’S CROSSING, BY MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI

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On the Juke Joint Dance Scene in “Sinners”

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Belated Review: Beatlejuice Beatlejuice

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ON KISHI BASHI’S “IN FANTASIA,” THE RAMONES’ “PET SEMATARY,” AND ETERNAL LIFE

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ON THE SHAGGS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD AND STRANGE PROPHECIES STRANGELY FULFILLED

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ON HAWTHORNE’S YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN AND THE END OF THE BOOK OF MORMON

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BRIEF NOTES ON THE DISTINCT LACK OF WITCHES IN SALEM, MA

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ON SONIC YOUTH’S BAD MOON RISING, 40 YEARS LATER

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ON SUICIDE’S FIRST ALBUM AND THE LAW OF CONSECRATION

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THE TRAPEZE SWINGER, BY IRON & WINE [ANNOTATED READINGS]

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ON THE CHIEFTANS’ MARCH TO BATTLE (ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE) FEAT. LIAM NEESON

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ON THE BLACK SCREEN, BY LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

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“TO MOURN WITH THOSE THAT MOURN:” ON GHOSTEEN BY NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

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ON THE MERCY SEAT BY NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, AND JACOB 7

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ON THE CURIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF DOA, BY FOO FIGHTERS

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ON “NOW AND THEN,” BY “THE BEATLES”

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REQUIEM FOR LOW AND MIMI PARKER