Anonymous – The Day of the Jack-O-Lantern (2012)

Review by Justin Tate

Since discovering “confession” stories from the 1950s I’ve become obsessed with magazines like True Story and True Confessions. Much to my delight, this anthology collects various Halloween-themed tales from the magazines. Unfortunately, the stories are mundane representations of a gloriously daring legacy that dates all the way back to 1919.

“Dracula is My Baby’s Daddy” is the only real zinger. It includes drunken costume sex in a coat closet, scaling a neighbor’s fence to retrieve panties before they go up for auction, and a twist that, while so obvious it’s not really a twist at all, is still cute.

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