Moundshroud sums up his lesson: the holiday derives from the fear of death and the seasonal death of the sun. Back home the boys learn that Pippin has been relieved in the nick of time of an inflamed appendix, and Mr. Breathless urgency prevails as the boys swoop and slide in and out of an ancient Egyptian burial, a ritual of death in Druid Britain, a gathering of medieval witches, the massing of the Notre Dame gargoyles, and a candlelit feast in a Mexican cemetery - glimpsing as they go a variously guised and weakly pleading Pippin, for whose life each boy in the catacomb-clammy end gives up a year of his own.
Moundshroud, who takes eight spookily costumed boys on a kite-and-broomstick timetrip in search of their friend Pippin and the meaning of Halloween. The adventure is basically just a framing narrative to allow the kids to dip into the history behind some of the now-classic symbols of Halloween: witches, mummies, skeletons, etc.The lyric and expansive nostalgia for boyhood of Dandelion Wine, the extravagantly conjured atmosphere of Leon Garfield (but without his chilling intensity), the sometimes gratuitous fright-inciters (rattling bones and shuddering house) of the conventional Halloween story - all seem to temper the unabashed didacticism of the mysterious Mr. Moundshroud, in an effort to save their friend Pip, who is fighting for his life in the hospital. The premise, if you don’t know it, is that a group of kids go on an adventure around the world and throughout time with the powerful and mysterious Mr. If I hadn’t already adored him going in, I’d have fallen in love the second I heard his voice.) (He wrote the screenplay, too-based on the passages I looked up & compared, he pulled quite a bit directly from the book. Which, like: If there’s something cozier and autumnal than sitting back and listening to Ray Bradbury read to me, I haven’t found it. Better than Easter, better than Christmas: Halloween. The town was full of fences to walk on and sidewalks to skate on, and the muted cries and laughter of boys and girls full of costumes, dreams, and pumpkin spirits preparing for the greatest night of the year.
On the other hand, there wasn't so much town around that you couldn't see and feel and touch the wilderness. There wasn't so much wilderness around that you couldn't see the town. It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. RAY BRADBURY HIMSELF DOES THE NARRATION, so you get to hear him read passages like this: The Halloween Tree : Book cover and movie poster
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