Source: The Bulwark
by Clare Coffee
“Not everyone likes Halloween decorations. I remember driving to the cider stand with a family member one crisp fall morning, passing the various ghoulies, ghosties, and goblins dotting neighbor’s gardens. With a gimlet eye, she stared down a plastic inflatable witch. ‘People like putting up these witch decorations,’ she said, ‘But witches are not funny.’ … For the most part, I myself love Halloween decorations. … But there is one case where I agree entirely with my relative’s sentiment. It’s the murder. I don’t like all the murder. I don’t like the body bags that are multiplying among the ghosts and goblins. I don’t like the police tape and the headless corpses.” (10/30/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/against-the-crime-scene-halloween