It’s getting very close to the Witching seasonFall has officially begun and leaves are streaking with red and gold. Nights are colder and the moon is brighter. If you look close enough, you just might see a shadow whisking across its yellow face, a shadow on broomstick. The Witching season is nigh.
The witch is one of the classic Halloween monster archetypes and one of my favorites. Not the haggy crone with the wart on her hooked nose who gobbles little children. The sexy witch. Blonde hair flowing, wispy gown revealing. Maybe this fascination comes from watching Jeannie and Bewitched as a kid…but I have always had a thing for the witch. She is magical and alluring, casting her spells and weaving her magic all through my childhood and into my adult years.
She appears in the mist of a foggy night or under the bright moonlight, her laugh gentle and her blue eyes mesmerizing…Once you are under her spell…well, you write blogs about her.
But I digress. The beautiful witch has appeared likely as long as the haggard one, the object of artists’ paintings from classical to pulp covers. I have used witches in my own fiction, such as Grimm, The Chloe Files and the third Nightmare Club book, The Willow Witch, both naughty and nice. She’s a staple of Halloween, costumes and cards, and for us horror writing males, as fascinating as the vampire hero is to women. Except we usually live through it when we fall for a sexy witch…no blood loss…So I guess if you are out on a starry night, and see a shadow flutter across the harvest moon…don’t run in fear. Enjoy the magic and up your broom insurance…
My name is Chloe Everson…and I kick demon ass…
THE CHLOE FILES by Howard Hopkins
In the tradition of Sookie Stackhouse and Buffy, The Vampire Slayer…
In paperback from http://www.bn.com/ and http://www.amazon.com/
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