Kudos to the person whose idea it was to have some good fairies on the Prospect Park Spook Walk. And much appreciation to the good fairy pictured to the left who consoled my niece when she got scared by the actors dressed as ghouls, goblins, witches, and headless horsemen. It may have been the vampire popping out of the cardboard coffin that really got to her. It scared the bejesus out of me. 

"Are you a psychologist or something?" I asked the young woman who said all the right things to a frightened little girl (the ladybug at left).

"No, I'm a high school student," she said.

"You did a great job," I told her.

pix by Caroline Ghertler