A Halloween Treat
“Pumpkin” Bill Pronizini Cemetery Dance various ebpub editions , $0.99 Cemetery Dance has been publishing Halloween themed short stories on weekdays for the last couple of weeks and will continue to do...
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“A Little Halloween Talk” Joe R. Lansdale Cemetery Dance ebook, $0.99 Here’s another little treat from Cemetery Dance’s 13 Days of Halloween. It’s not one you want to share with the kiddies. This one...
View ArticleTwo Items of Halloween Interest
I’m buried under a mountain of grading, so there won’t be any post on Robert E. Howard’s horror stories tonight. Tomorrow doesn’t look too promising, but I’ll see what I can do. I did, however, want...
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Happy Halloween, everyone. I started the day by passing out exams wearing a grim reaper hood. Quite appropriate, I thought, considering what some of the scores were. When I took the hood off, about a...
View ArticleTravelling Through Northwest Passages
Northwest Passages Barbara Roden Prime Books hardcover $24.95 (out of stock) ebook $6.99 Kindle Nook Weightless I’ve chosen to officially kickoff my Halloween related posts with Northwest Passages by...
View ArticleInvoking Dark Gods
Dark Gods T. E. D. Klein mmpb, Bantam, $3.95, 1986, 263 p. One of the top practitioners of horror fiction in the latter half of the previous century is also one of the most frustrating. T. E. D. Klein...
View ArticleMy Halloween Posts Creep into Other Blogs
Not all of the things I’ve been reading for Halloween are getting reviewed here. There have been two other posts that might be of interest to some of you. The first post that went live was at Amazing...
View ArticleA Look at Weird Tales 362
Before I start the review, I’d like to thank Doug Draa for the review copy and apologize for taking so long to get the review posted. The review copy is a PDF file, and I’d intended to read it while...
View ArticleA Journey Through The October Country
The October Country Ray Bradbury Illustrations by Joe Mugnaini mass market paperback 307 p., $7.99 ebook Kindle $7.21 Nook $10.99 I first read this collection in the early ’80s, around 1980 or 1981, I...
View ArticleYou Pay a High Price When You “Pay the Ghost”
“Pay the Ghost” Tim Lebbon Ebook short story $0.99 I became aware of “Pay the Ghost” when Tim Lebbon posted a link to it on Twitter. I’ve been so distracted the last few weeks that I wasn’t aware of...
View ArticleDon’t Go Out on “Devil’s Night”
“Devil’s Night” Richard Chizmar Cemetery Dance Ebook short story, $0.99 Cemetery Dance has over the last few years published a number of Halloween themed short stories in ebook form. (They all have...
View ArticleHalloween Reading
I had hoped to have more read and reviewed by now. There should be some posts coming in the next few days. Once again there are several books I’ve been intending to read for the last few years that I...
View ArticleHalloween Tricks and Treats
Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts Mark Parker, ed. Scarlet Galleon paperback $14.99, 161 p. ebook $6.99 This book came out last fall, but my copy didn’t arrive until after Halloween, so I waited until...
View ArticleWhen The Halloween Children Come Knocking
The Halloween Children Brian James Freeman and Norman Prentiss Hydra hardcover $24.95 ebook $2.99 I’d like to thank Cemetery Dance Publications for providing me with the review copy. Told by multiple...
View ArticleA Look at Halloween Carnival Volume One
Halloween Carnival, Volume One Brian James Freeman, ed. Hydra ebook only $2.99 I’d like to thank Bryan James Freeman for the review copy of Halloween Carnival, Volume One. This is the first of five...
View ArticleA Look at Halloween Carnival Volume Two
Halloween Carnival Volume Two Brian James Freeman, ed. Hydra ebook only $2.99 I’d like to thank Brian James Freeman for the review copy of Halloween Carnival Volume Two. As anyone who has read many of...
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