ISSUE 1 2020 NOW WHAT CONTENTS DO WE HAVE HERE? few years ago, a friend asked As you’re in the mood for words you me the age old question “What can discover Capri DeBiccari’s humorous An Interview with a Ghost ALIDA ZIMMERMAN 10 A should I be for Halloween?” I, of yet accurate take on everybody’s course, had no clue, but in the interest of favorite chocolate coated-candy, learn A Definitive Ranking: Every Kind of M&M CAPRI DEBICCARI 20 filling dead air I decided to develop a POV from Savannah Kopp as she translates in real time. our mindless Halloween actions into a And The Bride Wore Black JONNY MAIS 30 Without a costume in mind, I grabbed a behavioral rubric for the everyday, or take stray sheet of paper and began to sketch notes as Jonny Mais visualizes the perfect The Woods EMMA GIORDANO 34 my thoughts on how to think about Hallow’s Eve wedding. If you prefer your picking out a costume. These sketches words by the thousand you may travel Kviteseid ADA & SEVE 40 later became the charts for Halloween time and space with Lisa Sahakian, Aaron Photography: AKSEL Unlocked, a guide for those fed up with Taylor, and Helen Lueders on journeys the stress, anxiety, and human anguish across Los Angeles, London, and memory The Masks We Wear SASHA ARIJANTO 48 involved in figuring out a Halloween lane all in the name of Halloween. Photography: LISA SAHAKIAN costume. As you can imagine there was The collaboration process was fascinating probably a less involved way to tell her I and served as a further reminder of the Costume Drama HELEN LUEDERS 72 didn’t think that “putting on a bald cap wonder that is the human mind and the and becoming Paul Kalkbrenner” would power of team. I’m eternally grateful for The Void TIFFANY KIMMEL 86 do the trick (nor treat), but had I done that Sasha and Sarah (S3!) for joining this you probably wouldn’t be reading this creation process to bring this vision to A Photoshopped Halloween CHLOE GLENN 90 very sentence. life. As you spend time with each page As it turns out Halloween is a time we hope Scare Tactics provides you with Ready, Set, Halloween! OLIVIA KELLY 94 that piques the interest of many — it’s a a light look into a dark world in a way that justification to transform into someone makes you laugh, smile, and consider. The Halloween Method SAVANNAH KOPP 98 else, a flimsy excuse to gorge yourself with candy, and a sturdy excuse to flirt. STEPH DIEDRICH A Costume on Any Other Day AARON TAYLOR 110 This prompted our team to ask a group of friends, artists, and writers to interpret Sweet & Spooky ANNA QUINLAN 116 Halloween through a witty, informed, and provocative lens while dancing the line The Best Places to Get Free Candy SASHA ARIJANTO 124 between fantasy and reality. Scare Tactics: For the Halloween Desert Like a Witch GG HAWKINS & ARIELLE 128 Inclined is a collection of text and images in Photography: RYAN THOMAS which the Halloween season is imagined in the practical, philosophical, and abstract. Halloween Unlocked STEPH DIEDRICH 138 Left (from Left to Right): Ice Queen: ASHLEY, Beyoncé: NADIA, Aaliyah: KELLY, Selena: LAURA Above: Trinity: ISADORA CONTRIBUTORS SPECIAL THANKS SCARE TACTICS ANNE AAMODT DANA BANANA ADA & SEVE CHRIS CLARK AKSEL ALEX CONNOLLY ARIELLE DONNA D. EDITOR CASEY MARIE DAVID MARK D. STEPH DIEDRICH CAPRI DEBICCARI SAHIL DESAI EMMA GIORDANO ALEXANDRA EITEL CREATIVE DIRECTOR CHLOE GLENN PHIL F. SASHA ARIJANTO GG HAWKINS BEN GONSIOR ISADORA PABLO DESIGN DIRECTOR OLIVIA KELLY ZANNY LANNIN SARAH SHOEMAKE TIFFANY KIMMEL PARKER LARAMIE QUINN KONARSKA CATHERINE XUAN NGUYEN SAVANNAH KOPP MAX J. RIDDLE HELEN LUEDERS MICHELLE ROOS JONNY MAIS MATTHIJS S. KATHERINE CARRIE SHOEMAKE VAN MCKINNEY BROCK VEREEN AURUM ORO ALICE PANIKIAN KELLY PRYOR ANNA QUINLAN CHRIS ROCHE VICTORIA ROGERS LISA SAHAKIAN ALEXANDRA SHUFORD AARON TAYLOR RYAN THOMAS Interior and Exterior Cover MOLLY WURWAND Photography and Right: ALIDA ZIMMERMAN LISA SAHAKIAN Halloween in Space ALEXANDRA SHUFORD AN INTERVIEW WITH A GHOST CATCHING UP WITH t was a summer day in Friendship, Maine. With a balmy high of 72 degrees, II drove through the two-street town, caught by the constant smell of fresh seafood and salty air. Arriving at Whip- staff Manor that afternoon, I found myself greeted by a manicured lawn and a large gate. A few seconds after dialing in the call box I heard that familiar voice from my childhood beckoning, “Come on back.” I immediately tensed up. But why? I was only going to see the friendliest ghost in the world. Maybe it was because I wasn’t sure what he wanted to tell me. Casper offered me a cup of tea as I sat at his kitchen table. The home was beautiful — minimalist in design and filled with abstract art: that of Matisse, Pollock, and Warhol. Casper reminisced about the time he met Andy Warhol at The Met’s haunted art exhibit in the ‘70s. The two hit it off talking about their love for the art of Louise Bourgeois and two weeks later a signed Warhol original arrived at Whipstaff Manor. “He was such a sweet man, much more qualified to receive the “friendly” title than me.” Which leads me to the exact reason I am here today. We reached out to Casper last fall in hopes he would consider talking to us for our Halloween issue. He declined stat- ing that he no longer does interviews. But, last month I received a call from him saying he had been thinking about it and there was something he needed to get off his chest. “I’m not as friendly as people think,” he said as he placed a cup of English Break- fast tea in front of me. He began by telling me his story, his true story. The human Casper McFadden was born in 1938 and died at the age of 12 due to pneumonia. “Sure, I was a friendly boy, but just like any other 12 year old I had my moments.” When he looks back at his life he doesn’t think about how he was mostly a nice kid. “Casper’s ‘At first I didn’t fame blew up. mind the Every child attention; I knew who he actually liked was, taking it. People comfort in approached knowing there me with such was one ghost joy. But then it out there who got old fast.’” was a friend, not a foe. 17 Rather, he thinks about the dreams he Casper signed on thinking a few friendly had, “I wanted to be an actor, the next roles wouldn’t be so bad, that this oppor- Charlie Chaplin.” So, when he passed on tunity would only open more doors not to the next world he realized like many of close them. “Little did I know this role us realize at some point; that there is no would cast me into a box that would take better time than now. Casper began send- lifetimes to undue.” ing out his head shots and approaching From there, Casper’s fame blew up. production studios. “No one would take Every child knew who he was, taking com- “I’M NOT AS me seriously.” fort in knowing there was one ghost out It wasn’t until 1930 when Seymour Reit there who was a friend, not a foe. “At first FRIENDLY and Joe Oriolo, two illustrators, overheard I didn’t mind the attention; I actually liked it. AS PEOPLE Casper talking to a Paramount executive People approached me with such joy. But about how ghosts are viable characters then it got old fast.” Casper sighs, reflect- THINK.” who need representation in the film ing on how fans and studios were quick to industry. Reit and Oriolo agreed, but take advantage. “Everywhere I went I was with a caveat; he needed to be a cartoon the friendly ghost, my role on screen meld- in order to ease audiences into seeing a ed into who people thought I was in real ghost. And not just that, he needed to be life and it was incredibly frustrating. I mean an approachable cartoon, a friendly ghost. you don’t speak to Julie Andrews as if she In 1996 Casper took some time off to I asked him. He smiled and stopped dead “They thought it was brilliant, a ghost who is Mary Poppins.” As if that wasn’t enough just be alone, a break that has lasted to in his float. He thought for a minute before wants to befriend humans, not scare them. of a burden to bear, Casper was constantly present day. Besides the occasional com- speaking. I explained to them that most ghosts are scrutinized on set. He cited more than a few mercial here and there, Casper has stayed “I’ve waited many lives for someone to friendly, that the scary ghost character is incidents when they would stick their hand mostly under the radar. He spends most of ask me that and now that you have I am a societal complex forced on by years of through his body without asking assuming his days on his property, floating along the not sure what to say.” He continued on, “I Halloween consumerism. I argued that he would be okay with it since he was “so beach, reading under his apple tree, and guess that’s the point, there is no simple ghosts were worthy of multi-dimensional friendly.” He also mentions he has heard in the last few years, meditating.