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Bad lighting

Posted: October 25th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Letters to T | Tags: , , , | 3 Comments »

George from Portland, OR writes:

Dear T,

I am writing a scary Halloween story called “The Evil Lightbulb.” It’s about a 60-watt lightbulb that shines with pure evil. Everyone who sees its light turns into a homicidal maniac. It likes people who are scared of the dark, because they are sure to turn it on, and then it sits back and watches the bloodbath.

T replies:

Hey, George. That sounds like a scary lightbulb indeed. But to foil its evil intentions I would attach it to a dimmer switch on every other night but Halloween!

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3 Comments on “Bad lighting”

  1. 1 Sam said at 1:33 pm on October 30th, 2009:

    I’d like to put an evil lightbulb in a flashlight. Then I could shine it on bad guys. Fight evil with evil!

  2. 2 Sarah said at 6:56 pm on October 31st, 2009:

    The real evil is all the electricity this lightbulb wastes after everyone is massacred and no one is left to switch it off.

  3. 3 Fruit fright « Letters To T « Timothy Power said at 6:42 pm on October 23rd, 2010:

    […] might remember my Halloween story last year, The Evil Lightbulb, because it probably scared you to pieces. Well, this year I have written a story about a homicidal […]

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