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(3.75) | None | Halloween: The word itself instantly conjures up images of costumed trick-or-treaters, ghosts and ghouls rising from their graves. After the death of her beloved Grandmother Hudson, Rain found herself caught in a In the grand tradition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice, The Ultimate Halloween gathers together a collection of new and old, unique and terrifying fantasy and horror stories centering around the holiday known as All Hallows Eve. Here you'll find Al Sarrantonio's "Pumpkin Head," William F. Nolan's "The Halloween Man," and a bevy of other spine-tingling works. So lock the doors, dim the lights, and allow your host for the evening -- editor Marvin Kaye -- to usher you through the darkened streets and haunted forests of the imagination. But be sure to keep your mask on tight -- the creatures of the night are less likely to attack if they think you're one of them....… (more) |
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Pumpkins, bats, pranksters, ghoulies and ghosties, and all those shivery things that lurk near the gates of graveyards--communion with the beloved spirits of our ancestors--harvest home and the death of the sun--Halloween means many things to different people, or it used to before Hallmark got hold of it.  | |
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None ▾Book descriptions Halloween: The word itself instantly conjures up images of costumed trick-or-treaters, ghosts and ghouls rising from their graves. After the death of her beloved Grandmother Hudson, Rain found herself caught in a In the grand tradition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice, The Ultimate Halloween gathers together a collection of new and old, unique and terrifying fantasy and horror stories centering around the holiday known as All Hallows Eve. Here you'll find Al Sarrantonio's "Pumpkin Head," William F. Nolan's "The Halloween Man," and a bevy of other spine-tingling works. So lock the doors, dim the lights, and allow your host for the evening -- editor Marvin Kaye -- to usher you through the darkened streets and haunted forests of the imagination. But be sure to keep your mask on tight -- the creatures of the night are less likely to attack if they think you're one of them.... ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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The Ultimate Halloween
Marvin Kaye, Editor
Collection of Halloween stories, by different authors, picked for the anthology by Marvin Kaye. Not bad, not bad. I really enjoyed “Auntie Elspeth’s Halloween Story or The Gourd, The Bad & The Ugly” by Esther Freisner, where an old bitty in a nursing home has been saddled with her grand-nieces and nephews for the afternoon and isn’t at all happy about it, so she decides to tell them a nasty story about what REALLY happens to pumpkins when they become jack-o-lanterns. In fact, the stories I liked most all had young-child themes, which may seem surprising, but really isn’t. I’m nostalgic for that scared-little-kid feeling one gets with scary stories, so I actually enjoy reading these kinds of stories, where the main character is a kid between 10-12 years old (well, that wasn’t the case with that first one, as the pumpkin was the main character), and the story, even though about a kid, is told from an adult point of view, FOR adults.
Another good example is “Pumpkinhead” by Al Sarrantonio, where a strange, scapegoated child turns out to be much more than she seems, and “The Halloween Man” by William F. Nolan – my favorite in the collection - about a young girl terrified by her fear of the mythical, soul-stealing Halloween Man, and unable to tell anyone about it.
There are a couple I didn’t care for, like “The Banshee’s Comb”, an Irish tale. The language and dialect were just too bulky, and the story was too long.
I wish there were more Halloween collections, and the kid-oriented ones (again, from an adult point of view) are definitely the best. (