It's about this time of year that folk of good will start wondering whatever they could possibly dress as for Halloween. Here then is a list of off-the-beaten path literary and historical figures that might catch your fancy for an unforgettable costume(with special emphasis on group efforts). You might need an accompanying explanatory pamphlet with footnotes -hence this early post and getting a head start on the project- but you certainly won't go unremarked:
Cardinal Richelieu and his 14 cats; Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, authors of
Malleus Malleficarum; Lost Lenore ; Dame of Elphiname; Tam Lin; the Chevalier d’Eon; La Llorona; Madeleine and Roderick Ussher; dead Cathy and haunted Heathcliff; Matthew Hopkins, witchfinder general; Judith and/or Jael ; NoFace from Spirited Away; Elizabeth Bathory; Raskolnikov; Thiess von Kaltenbrunn, the eighty year old Livonian werewolf; a host of Benandanti; The Person from Porlock; Isadora Duncan; Isabella and a big ol’ pot o’ Basil; Princess Anastasia (either the impostor or the assisination victim); Boniface VIII and his pet demon; Benjamin Bathurst; Rimbaud and Verlaine; Peter Quint and Miss Jessel; Rappacini, his daughter; Caligari and his Sleepwalker; Carlotta Valdez from Vertigo, or "Madeleine"; La Marquise de Brinvilliers; la Voisin; Burke and Hare; Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; the little Brontë sisters who lay in the churchyard calling out to the elders to join them in play.
Who would you add?
(for more ideas, with a little more explanation this time, click
here and
here)
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