DEVIL TAKE 'EM!

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Although I shan't be Trick-or-Treating tomorrow night, I thought I'd introduce you to a few old friends who would be experts at the game –– a bunch of delightfully demonic beings that snuck into my luggage during a holiday in Portugal some years ago.

Contrary to his sinister appearances, the red devil on the right also serves as a rather jolly little whistle!!  

DEVILISH DIALOGUE

It's HALLOWEEN!

...and, since 31 October is, by custom, a time for trick-or-treating, here is a little tricky-treat from me to you: a piece of vintage Sibley radio, first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 thirty-two years ago on Halloween night 1979.

Talk of the Devil is an anthology of prose and poetry which I compiled in commemoration of the life and times (and heinous works) of Lucifer, Prince of Darkness.

The readers were Judy Parfitt, Robert Eddison (both of whom later appeared in my first Gormenghast dramatisation) and Brian Carroll and the programme was produced by veteran drama director, Graham Gauld...

Images of His Infernalness by Goya and Dore