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Highlights
- Halloween is the most wonderful part of the year for many of us.
- Author(s): Lucy A Snyder
- 168 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
Description
About the Book
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.
Book Synopsis
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!
Review Quotes
"Lucy Snyder attacks the page with the raw, manic intensity of an early Sam Raimi. Snyder's endlessly fertile, endlessly twisted imagination has never been so well-displayed."--Seanan McGuire, John Campbell Award winner
"Lucy Snyder's stories have a natural, folksy feel. At first they seem like the kinds of stories your aunt might tell you, or your grandmother. The characters feel quite familiar--you might recognize a neighbor, or a favorite uncle. Snyder's impressive ear for the way real people actually talk draws you in, and sometimes you're well into a story before you realize just how disturbing the situation she's narrating actually is. And when the horror does come it is precisely, almost lovingly described. I'm always eager to see a Lucy Snyder story in the table of contents because I know it's going to be one of the most original in the book."
--Steve Rasnic Tem, author of Blood Kin
"'Voice' is one of those writing advice words that's been so overused in recent years it's almost lost all meaning...until you read a collection of work by Lucy Snyder, and then you know. Lucy's work is smart, passionate, and deeply creepy, all told in her very distinctive style. Thank you, Lucy, for reminding us that 'voice' is still alive and kicking in the best genre fiction." --Lisa Morton, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Zombie Apocalypse: Washington Deceased