All posts tagged: halloween

Hallaoween Style 2015!

Halloween is awesome, but it can be tough figuring out an original costume that really brings the scary. Especially one that involves traditional Lao ghosts and monsters. Little Laos On the Prairie’s resident horror expert, Bryan Thao Worra, is one of the first Lao writers to become a professional member of the international Horror Writer’s Association, so it seemed fitting to ask him for ideas. In years past, he discussed some classic phi for consideration, but here are some other great ideas you can try, esepecially if you’re in a time crunch: Put Lao folks in a room long enough under the right conditions, and pretty soon they’ll start to tell ghost stories or tales of the weird, and the unexplainable. Our community has a particular taste for stories of horror and the macabre that goes well with Halloween celebrations, although few of our ghost stories are written down, traditionally. You’ll have to ask your parents and elders for the REALLY scary ones. In the US, there aren’t a lot of costumes for Lao that incorporate …

Halloween Round Up: Phi Galore!

Innsmouth Free Press just announced the pre-sale for Bryan Thao Worra’s new book of poetry, DEMONSTRA, which will begin shipping in December. Until November 16th, you can get it for $8.50 instead of the usual $10 and shipping. This is for the standard edition, not the deluxe edition which was only available to the kickstarter backers.  That version is also anticipated to begin shipping in December. In our first year at Little Laos on the Prairie, one of our first posts was about the phi known as Ghong-Goy. This year, Bryan’s going to share some of his notes from researching phi to give you some chills before Halloween kicks into full swing. Many of these ghastly spirits appear in his new book! Phi Dip ຜີດິບ: All month long, we’ve been treated to the Phi Dip thanks to Saymoukda Vongsay’s play, Kung Fu Zombies vs. Cannibals. In Laos, Phi Dip is the general catch-all term for the undead who have physical bodies, such as zombies and vampires, as opposed to incorporeal entities such as banshees and poltergeists.  It …