Horror Is a Kind of Play

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Horror is a kind of play,
A need to undergo
Life along the borderline,
Lest death be just a name.
On Halloween we dream away
What wailing we well know,
Enchanted by the danger sign
Each savors up and down the spine,
Near haunts that are no game.

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Audio and Video Music: Bewitched Hell. By Damiano Baldoni. Performed by
Damiano Baldoni at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution license.

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