Newly Cloaked in Purpose

Which picture is more frightening:   this one

or  this one:

or this poem by Rae Armantrout:

Errands
 
By Rae Armantrout
 
The old
to-and-fro
 
is newly cloaked
in purpose.
There’s a jumble
of hair and teeth
under the bedclothes
in the forest.
 
“The better to eat you with,”
it says,
and nibbles us
until we laugh.
*
An axeman
comes to help.
*
“To, to,”
birds cheep
to greet
whatever has come up.
“To, to”


In any case, as the days creep close to Halloween, I am drawn to ghost stories and haunting poems.