Today we continue our look back at Highbury and Scrapes' Halloween costumes of the 80s, as we remember 1981. The Star Wars craze had subsided and it was on to the classic movie monsters as I channeled my inner Lugosi with a spot-on recreation of Count Dracula, complete with my trash bag cape and plastic fangs. My parents were early recyclers, as was evident in Scrapes' costume. The home made clown outfit that made it's debut some three years earlier...
A cold, weathered hand pierces the rust-laden earth of a late autumn night. Reanimated decay becomes the evening's guide. Masked faces bask in the fiery glow of a jack-o-lantern's illumination. A lifeless finger points the direction toward the next porch-lit house. For this is the night of ghouls and goblins and tricks and treats. This is the night of Hallowe'en...
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