Tommy Doyle: The Boy Who Saw the Shape (and Lived to Tell the Tale)

The flickering porch light cast long shadows on the quiet Haddonfield street. Young Tommy Doyle, wide-eyed and clutching his plastic jack-o’-lantern, peered nervously out the window. Little did he know that the “boogeyman” stories he so enjoyed were about to become terrifyingly real. The year was nineteen seventy-eight, and the night was Halloween. What Tommy…