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Editor's Note for Issue 2

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday of the year. The fancy costumes, the teeth rotting candy, the blanket permission to scare the living crap out of a person… Ahem… and the freedom you get pretending to be someone else for just one night is ...exhilarating.

Yet Halloween is more than just a day fun and games for little children. It's also a celebration of All's Hallow's Eve, a night known for great power. A night where the veil between earth and the after life is thin enough to allow contact with your departed loved ones.

Halloween is also considered a night most holy. A night where Vampires, Demons and Other Creatures of the night halt all evil. It's a night of peace, a truce of sorts. Hell everyone needs one night off to recharge their batteries and ready themselves for the year of mischief that lays ahead.

When choosing a theme for this issue, I couldn't seem to pick just one. I simply adore the entire concept of Halloween in all it's forms, so I chose five: Trick or Treat, The Witching Hour, Something Wicked, Celtic New Year, and All Saints Day. I decided I'd let the writers decide.

The responses were interesting, and quite educational. It seems I wasn't the only one who couldn't decide on a single theme. Next year I believe I'll petition to have Halloween declared a National Holiday, I don't think we should be forced to work on such a special day. Do you?

I hope you enjoy this issue as much as I do.

Thanks,

Aline de Chevigny
Editor in Chief

In Addition to the contents listed on the left, 
Issue 2 Also featured:

Submission Guidelines
Author Interview Request
Contest Alerts
Dear Ink Slinger
Enchanted Ramblings Staff Round Robin: Hartikesh
Spooky Recipes
Book Reviews & Blurbs, including those by...
Kate Donovan, Jet Mykles & Kim Rees