![Image of a traditional jack-o-lantern with white text that reads 'Look at my face, look into my eyes, I'm a jack-o-lantern, there's nothing inside' an excerpt from a poem by horror author J.A. Steckling](https://i0.wp.com/www.justinestecklingwrites.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Halloween-Short-02.png?resize=662%2C662)
Broken down psychologically and encouraged to kill, the experiment subjects have become something less than (or, truthfully, more than) human. This line is from a poem in The Halloween Collection (working title) presently set to be released September 01, 2022 for Kindle by New England-based horror author J.A. Steckling.