Captain Halloween
Michael Spiroff
Pamphlet
(Michael Spiroff, July 18, 2006)
Do you know a child who loves Halloween? Do you remember that one haunting house where the fear was not worth the candy? Move over Great Pumpkin! Children will have fun trick-or-treating with the fearless, mysterious Captain Halloween! Schoolchildren taunt and tease Peter ÒPumpkinheadÓ because of his love of pumpkinseeds, which ultimately leads to a schoolyard dare: to trick-or-treat at the haunted house of the wicked witch on Halloween night. Peter never returns. For a generation, Halloween is all but banned. Until a brave schoolgirl named Clare takes the same Halloween dare Peter once took. In costume eerily similar to Peter Pumpkinhead long ago, a school-age Captain Halloween, along with a black cat named ÒBoo,Ó saves both Clare and Halloween from the wicked witch, forever!