Halloween

If I ran a game store I would play Halloween by Stephen Lynch.

I would play it every day of the year, not just seasonally. Halloween is deliciously dark and twisted. It has a perverse sense of humor and I think it's clear that it's humor, no matter how macabre. Stephen Lynch is a comedian-musician-actor. The version of the song I would play is his live version, where it's him and his guitar in front of an audience. It's from his 2005 album, The Craig Machine (don’t be put off by the cover art – it's humor not Satanism). The song hearkens back to the 1970s when stories of children receiving spiked candy or vanishing circulated widely. It is sung from the point of view of the miscreant who hurts kids. Gamers have a willingness to explore and embrace dark subject matter – witness horror games like All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Arkham Horror, Betrayal at House on the Hill, and Little Fears. The humor in Halloween should align nicely with gamers' ability to enjoy horror.

Halloween on Google Play