Book Blogger Hop: Halloween Tropes

It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like! This week’s prompt is about Halloween tropes: If you could retell a Halloween story or trope from a fresh angle, what would you choose and why? Hm, I don’t really know. I’m not much for spooky stories, really — not in my own writing, anyway (I think my October reading this year has given the lie to any claims I don’t read horror). There’s a story of a “Green Lady” ghost at Caerphilly Castle, with a whole typical cheating/betrayal/comeuppance narrative — I guess it might be fun to write a story about that, and make sure to make it properly Welsh in detail and setting. I don’t think I know of anything that’s played with that particular iteration of the story, and setting it on Nos Galan Gaeaf makes as much sense as…