Halloween too scary: let’s go cuddly and move to the Christian celebration of good over evil. (Says leading Christian cleric….)

Posted by Glennis Byron on October 30, 2010 in News tagged with Halloween

Every year, some religious leader makes a really ridiculous comment about Halloween. In 2009 it was the Vatican as we reported in last year’s news at this time: http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/news/Vatican-condemns-Halloween/ For 2010, it’s the Rt. Rev. David Gillet, Bishop of Bolton, who ‘wants people to come away from Halloween’s darker side’. BBC News reports that the Rev Gillet thinks “The emphasis has become so evil and scary, I’ve spoken to children and adults who find it too scary,” he says. “Why not lighter costumes? Brighter colours?” he asks. “Face masks that people could paint themselves in a way that sets their own level of spookiness”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6099008.stm

Difficult to know what to say, isn’t it…

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About the Author – Glennis Byron

Glennis Byron has written 267 articles on The Gothic Imagination.

My main research interests are in nineteenth-century and contemporary Gothic. My next project, tentatively entitled Blood Money: Marketing the Gothic, will examine the ways in which the international publishing industries manufacture, construct, categorise and, in a sense, even define, the Gothic in contemporary culture. Along with Dale Townshend, I run the M.Litt in The Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling.

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