Halloween Season
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Publisher Description
Halloween is the most wonderful part of the year for many of us. For dedicated fans, the season begins when the leaves start turning autumn colors and doesn't finish until Hallowtide ends in November. With it comes a whole lot of fun: scary movies and stories, haunted houses, seasonal sweets, spooky decorations, costume parties, and of course trick or treat. But Halloween is also a deeply spiritual time for some; it's an opportunity to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on.
Master storyteller Lucy A. Snyder has filled her cauldron with everything that Halloween means to her and distilled it into a spell-binding volume of stories. Within these pages you'll find thrills and chills, hilarity and horrors, the sweet and the naughty.
One of the best things about Halloween is you don't have to be yourself. So go ahead and try on a new mask or two ... you may discover hidden talents as a witch, a pirate, a space voyager, a zombie fighter, or even an elf. This is the perfect collection to celebrate the season of the dead or to summon those heady autumn vibes whenever you like. You may even find a couple of tales that evoke a certain winter holiday that keeps trying to crowd in on the fun.
In the worlds within this book, every day is Halloween!
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Full of charm and subtle humor, this collection of 15 Halloween-themed stories from Bram Stoker Award winner Snyder (Garden of Eldritch Delights) scares and delights in equal measure. In "Hazelnuts and Yummy Mummies," a writer accidentally takes a hallucinogen, leading to phantasmagoric pandemonium. The Lovecraftian "Cosmic Cola" follows a middle schooler who discovers her new town is overrun by a cult of frog-people. Other standouts include "In the Family," about a woman who uses online genetic testing to connect with a relative for nefarious purposes, and "Visions of the Dream Witch," in which a young girl tries to get help for her cousin after he is injured in a monster attack. Snyder includes plenty of winking pop-culture references alongside appearances from all the classic Halloween monsters: zombies in "The Great V D Teen Linux Zombie Massacree," witches and ghosts in "What Dwells Within," and robots in "The House that Couldn't Clean Itself." This delightful collection will appeal both to avid horror readers and those just dipping their toes in for a seasonal celebration.
