Midnight Mass and the Problems of Faith

Flanagan gets what's really scary here

“It’s almost spooky season,” someone said to me yesterday.

I replied, “Yeah, I just bought four pumpkins,” which for whatever reason means I’m ready for spooky season. Or maybe it means spooky season is already upon us.

Most years I make a regular practice of spending September and October watching mostly horror movies and reading mostly horror novels. …