In about '77 The Exorcist came out in "re-issue" on the big screen, so I(a film buff of some 19 years of age) went to see it to see what all the fuss was about. It scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't figure out why, since I've never believed in any of that supernatural stuff.

It was only a few years later, when I was in art/film school, that I learned the fiendish truth: the makers of the film had spliced in frames of graveyards, corpses, and the like. There are 24 frames of film a second, of course, and yet the viewer's mind takes in these images without his or her being consciously aware of it.

Now that's spooky!

I find the entirety of "The Telltale Heart" to be unsettling, but "The Lottery" beats it at the finish line:

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Saturday, 10/31 toss-up: Trick or Treat?

Here you go, William!

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.....Thanks!