Summon monsters for a ‘hoot!’

By Hal Hoot & Anne Eek

Staff Hootenanny Writers

This week in Jack-o’-Lantern Press, we’ll be shining a little shadow on Halloween Hootenannies — the monster party! 

We begin today with words to actually summon monsters to come out and play. It’s the words from the 1983 film “Cujo” that little Tad and his dad used to keep monsters out of Tad’s bedroom.

These words are powerful. Go ahead, read them aloud and host your own Halloween hootenanny …

“Monsters, stay out of this room! You have no business here. No monsters under Tad’s bed! You can’t fit under there. No monsters hiding in Tad’s closet! It’s too small in there. No monsters outside of Tad’s window! You can’t hold on out there. No vampires, no werewolves, no things that bite! You have no business here. Nothing will touch Tad, or hurt Tad, all this night. You have no business here!”

Let the hootenannies begin!