I'm in an interesting and confusing position. I'm a vampire. Sometimes I'll go so far as to brag that I'm THE vampire. And yet...  we don't really celebrate Halloween in Australia. Thank god for the global community of Second Life, eh? Because that gives me a chance to waltz around the graveyards with an Undead beauty on my arm and celebrate all that is witchy, wicked and wild. I had three Halloween costumes for this year - one for Role Magazine, one to make Achariya wet herself laughing on her personal blog and finally the one that I actually ended up wearing for the day. Yes, I crossed to the even darker side for the Samhain and became a World of Warcraft elf for a day.

Creepy crawlies, grim ghouls, and all that goes bump in the night have slithered out of their haunts and into our realm as the 31st of October looms on the horizon. Halloween has come knocking to 2009, and few can deny its call: for one month, the world celebrates the dead, deviance, and - above all - being different. This holiday, the throne for the favorite fiend has a number of competitors, offering the living a variety of options to create their own unique monstrosity-

My first reaction when I slipped into Munchflower Zauis' ("Munch" for short) dress that she created for Passions of Black Swan was simply "Wow."  And then I kept repeating "Wow!" to the point where Munch was worried my sanity had gone with my avatar's normal style of clothing (something between pretty princess and casual chic, for those who are curious).  Her "Magdalena" dress stole the show and has been hailed by several bloggers to be one of the most beautiful and bloody dresses on the grid.