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High-res Baseballoween! The VumpireHe only works night games.His signals are creepy.When managers arguehe makes them feel sleepy.He never appears in the photos we snap. A widows peak peeks outfrom under his capwhen he takes a napin the dugout.His eyes bug out and he hisses like a frightened catat the sight of a broken bat.How weird is that?Once, while waiting on deckI caught him staringat the back of the catcher’s neck.Calef Brown - drawger

Baseballoween!

The Vumpire

He only works night games.
His signals are creepy.
When managers argue
he makes them feel sleepy.
He never appears 
in the photos we snap. 
A widows peak peeks out
from under his cap
when he takes a nap
in the dugout.
His eyes bug out 
and he hisses like a frightened cat
at the sight of a broken bat.
How weird is that?
Once, while waiting on deck
I caught him staring
at the back of the catcher’s neck.

Calef Brown - drawger

Nightmare on Your Street Even in this cheek-by-jowl town, the realm of other people’s apartments remains resolutely mysterious. Sure, New Yorkers share walls, overhear fights, inhale the sweet-spiced victories (and, all too often, failures) of sundry kitchen experiments. But the odd, unholy secrets of our neighbors’ homes remain hidden — and some of these secrets are very odd indeed. Voices whisper, spirits hover, stereos scream and stuffed animals rearrange themselves on beds. While we enjoy cozy, sleep-filled nights in our shoebox-sized sanctuaries, our neighbors toss and turn in the Gotham equivalent of Whaley House or Bly. And why not? New York is a city built on the dead, on mass graves and potter’s fields, old battlefields and spiffed-up shooting galleries. Surely some spirits are hanging around. So this Halloween, when your neighbors open their doors for a quick trick-or-treat, take a peek inside, listen closely. They might just have a ghost story for you. — LIZZY RATNER Op-Art | Lizzy Ratner and Seth, NYTimes.com

Nightmare on Your Street

Even in this cheek-by-jowl town, the realm of other people’s apartments remains resolutely mysterious. Sure, New Yorkers share walls, overhear fights, inhale the sweet-spiced victories (and, all too often, failures) of sundry kitchen experiments. But the odd, unholy secrets of our neighbors’ homes remain hidden — and some of these secrets are very odd indeed. Voices whisper, spirits hover, stereos scream and stuffed animals rearrange themselves on beds. While we enjoy cozy, sleep-filled nights in our shoebox-sized sanctuaries, our neighbors toss and turn in the Gotham equivalent of Whaley House or Bly. And why not? New York is a city built on the dead, on mass graves and potter’s fields, old battlefields and spiffed-up shooting galleries. Surely some spirits are hanging around.

So this Halloween, when your neighbors open their doors for a quick trick-or-treat, take a peek inside, listen closely. They might just have a ghost story for you. — LIZZY RATNER

Op-Art | Lizzy Ratner and Seth, NYTimes.com