I work in a college library these days and I love dressing up for Halloween (unlike my coworkers) so I always go looking for library appropriate costumes to wear. While on my 23rd hour of research I found an old Reddit post that contained a photo of a school librarian who dressed up as a book reaper for Halloween and went and collected overdue books. I, of course, thought this was brilliant and wanted to recreate this for my own Halloween costume.
I decided to go a step further with my creativity however and call my book reaping self The Grim Reader and go with a traditional black cape and make my scythe out of a book, using the pages as the staff portion and the cover of the book as the actual pointy bit. I even designed cover art for my book as I am a graphic design artist for the library.
I went further and created an ID badge photo (since we have to wear our college IDs while on duty) and taped it over my photo. I wore a black cape over my normally all black attire and that is my costume! I'm gonna need some other librarians and library workers to bring this idea to life in other places. I feel the costume is too good to waste away to nothing on the internets
