“You’re a little late with your Halloween playlist,” my neighbor Swamp Rabbit said. “And you didn’t decorate the front of your shack. The only treat you got left is candy corn. That stuff is lethal.”

I told him to think of Halloween as a season rather than a one-day event. The event is over but the days are still growing shorter, and the world is spookier than ever, especially with the presidential election only a few days away and the outcome in doubt. In fact, this is probably the scariest Halloween in living memory.

“You ain’t wrong, I guess,” he said. “The peeps are strange, and that’s a fact. This time next week we might all be runnin’ with the devil.”

“Running from the devil, more likely.” I said. “Unless there’s a national exorcism.”