Bedtime reading

Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race

Modern society has no shortage of ways to scare us. Technology brings the haunted house to life, for the ostensible purpose of frightening us to death. For my money, though, I'll take the raw power of a good, scary story. Try this one:

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. . . . Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

Yes, it's good old Young Goodman Brown.

Happy Halloween!