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On one magical night of the year\u2014when the breeze is scented with dead leaves and pumpkin, when the days have grown shorter and winter\u2019s first touch prickles your skin\u2014the barrier between worlds is at its thinnest, and dark magic abounds. Whether it\u2019s the legendary trickster Jack about to acquire his first lantern, a teenage girl beginning to discover her own alluring power, or a fallen angel seeking redemption, Halloween\u2019s sinister spell enchants all.<\/p>\n
The four novellas and ten short stories in this collection from Lisa Morton, one of the world\u2019s leading authorities on Halloween, bring the ancient festival\u2019s beauty and terror to vivid life. In the Bram Stoker Award\u00ae-nominated The Samhanach, <\/em>a suburban mother\u2019s world is turned upside-down when her daughter is taken by a legendary Scottish shapeshifter. The acclaimed Hell Manor<\/em> pits a professional trickster against four of the malicious Irish sidh <\/em>inside a haunted attraction. Other stories offer a young 1930s blues singer confronted by the Devil, a corn maze where a boy learns the real meaning of sacrifice, a rescue worker trapped in Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s haunted woods of Weir, and a Halloween expert (named Lisa Morton) who discovers the real truth behind the Celts\u2019 celebration of Samhain, the precursor to Halloween.<\/p>\n \u201cNow it is your turn to chew on these tasty morsels of fear, delight, horror, and optimism. These treats are now all yours to unwrap and devour. In the words of The Devil\u2019s Birthday<\/em>, you are about \u2018to join the best Halloween party imaginable.\u2019\u201d \u2014Nancy Holder, Bram Stoker Award\u00ae-winning author<\/p>\n Here’s what you’ll find inside:<\/p>\n Publication Date: October 20, 2017 On one magical night of the year\u2014when the breeze is scented with dead leaves and pumpkin, when the days have grown shorter and winter\u2019s first touch prickles your skin\u2014the barrier between worlds is at its thinnest, and dark magic abounds. Whether it\u2019s the legendary trickster Jack about to acquire his first lantern, a teenage girl [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Print Length: 354 Pages
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