By Lee Pace
"October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows."
Novelist Joy Fielding
The clock struck midnight Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., and this most inauspicious of Halloweens amid a worldwide Covid-19 pandemic slipped into history, taking with it a litany of demons for Carolina's football team. With their infamous Franklin Street Halloween carnival canceled, students and townies alike were left to don their Michael Myers and black widow masks, munch candy corns and watch from home as the Tar Heels dropped a 44-41 decision to Virginia in the 125th rendition of this oldest rivalry in the South.