Featured Storybooks Here are some Storybooks, past and present, on Halloween themes!
This semester:
- The Halloween Diaries
- Ghost Stories of India
- The Vampire Lexicon
- The Demons of Latin America
- Time To Learn Your Werewolf History
- Tracking the Werewolf
- Live On, University Legends
- Werewolves of Norman
- Samhain Sagas
- Moreau Island Supernatural Creature Laboratory
- Man-Eaters: Lillith's Lair
- Tales of Gothic Creatures
- Werewolves on Campus
- Ghost Stories of Europe
- Irish Hauntings
- Paranormal: The Ayodhya Files
- Indian Horror Story: Tales of the Lingering Souls
- Horrors in Amityville
- Women in White: Legends of the Haunted Hitchhikers
- Ghostly Adventures
- Hotel California
- Tales of the Black Cat
And here are some more items for fun and exploration:
Halloween Grammar. It's the grammar nerd's nightmare!
Indian Words in English: Today's word from India in English is in honor of Halloween candy... because the word CANDY comes to English via Arabic qandi and Sanskrit khanda. For details, see this blog post.
India Featured Book: Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur. This blog post provides additional information about this classical Sanskrit story collection about a corpse-demon who is fond of riddles. Here is an 18th-century illustration:
Today's Podcast: Here's a Spooky Sooners podcast to enjoy!
Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat is not afraid: Confront your fears. Details at the blog.
Event on Campus: Starting at 2PM, archaeologists will open up their labs in Room 221 Physical Sciences Center to trick-or-treaters and share their research with guests (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin...
Note: You can page back through the older blog posts to see any announcements you might have missed, and you can check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day.
