Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Happy Halloween!

 

AI image courtesy of Bing Image Creator


In the eldritch tapestry of All Hallow's Eve, there exists a being of dread beyond mortal ken. Each year, the Great Pumpkin ascends from the accursed patch that it deems the most imbued with a grotesque sincerity. It must choose this blighted realm, compelled by forces unfathomable. There is no conceivable sanctity in any other gourd-strewn acreage, for here, only abominable earnestness reigns. A dismal sincerity extends as far as the eye can bear to peer, a sincerity that beckons shadows and loathsome truths.

When the night of Samhain arrives, the Great Pumpkin, that loathsome entity, awakens from its aeons-old slumber within the cursed patch. It emerges with its abhorrent sack of playthings, and soars through the night sky, casting a malediction upon all children. The vile air is tainted with the eerie rustling of its supernatural descent, a harbinger of eldritch horrors that shall befall those it encounters. The Great Pumpkin, a dread specter of cosmic malevolence, visits not with gifts, but with calamities beyond mortal comprehension.

Beware, for in the forlorn pumpkin patches, the Great Pumpkin waits, a nightmarish being whose motives and origins remain shrouded in the unfathomable darkness of the cosmos, where sanity crumbles, and terror reigns.

 

(This is what happens when you plug some quotes from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown into ChatGPT and ask it to spit them back out in the style of H.P. Lovecraft "for the lulz."  Happy Halloween!)

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