What happens when a pumpkin carving, trick or treating, late night monster movie watching monster fan becomes a Christian? Is Halloween now off-limits? Is the whole thing pagan, occult, satanic? Is a love for spooky things and Gothic detail just plain sick? Lint Hatcher, past editor of Wonder magazine and all-purpose pop culture maven, doesn’t take such questions lightly. In The Magic Eightball Test, Hatcher grits his teeth and runs full tilt through the anti-Halloween gauntlet – putting his mania for the monsteriffic to the test. The result? A spirited and thoroughly Christian defense of Halloween and All Things Spooky.

Moving from Protestant to Catholic – to some that may sound about as catastrophic as redecorating your kitchen. For an evangelical like Lint Hatcher, however, such a change is like a trip from Earth to the moon, from the safety of one's tiny village to Castle Dracula perched on the hill. Yet Protestantism had produced some nagging questions. Get ready for an engaging and funny look at the comments, encounters and eurekas that put Hatcher on his way to what seemed a very unlikely destination.

What happens when a pumpkin carving, trick or treating, late night monster movie watching monster fan becomes a Christian? Is Halloween now off-limits? Is the whole thing pagan, occult, satanic? Is a love for spooky things and Gothic detail just plain sick? Lint Hatcher, past editor of Wonder magazine and all-purpose pop culture maven, doesn’t take such questions lightly. In The Magic Eightball Test, Hatcher grits his teeth and runs full tilt through the anti-Halloween gauntlet – putting his mania for the monsteriffic to the test. The result? A spirited and thoroughly Christian defense of Halloween and All Things Spooky.