While certainly an unorthodox choice, “Carrion Comfort,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., fits with the Christian roots of Halloween as an appraisal of faith in the face of horror.

proclaiming This is God loving me, even in defeat.

Though it felt wrong to sleep, I slept,      and when I woke and remembered, I wept.

My brother, when did rage become your station?

Jesus says, Woe to your puritan work ethics.

And therefore, all the more believable, That God sent a tiny angel with a chinstrap made of feathered jewels,