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Halloween Stories — Dead Leaves: 8 Tales from the Witching Season

by The Undead Rat on October 22, 2011

This entry is part 16 in the series Halloween Stories 2011

Kealan Patrick Burke is one of many established horror authors who is making both his out of print work available again in digital format and bringing together his hard to find short stories into new collections.

His newest digital offering is a collection of Halloween stories called Dead Leaves: 8 Tales from the Witching Season. It’s a nice helping of bite-sized holiday horror just in time for Halloween.

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Dead Leaves: 8 Tales from the Witching Season is an ebook only collection of Halloween stories by Kealan Patrick Burke

Dead Leaves: 8 Tales from the Witching Season

Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick
Format: Digital eBook
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Page Count: 256pp.
Pub. Date: October 2011
Publisher: Kealan Burke

Two brothers find themselves drawn to the only house in the neighborhood not decorated for Halloween . . .

A man returns to his hometown to bury his overbearing mother, and finds more than memories awaiting him in the shadows of his childhood home . . .

A young girl walks a lonely country road, recalling a rhyme that brings with it memories of death . . .

A teenager hoping for romance gets more than he bargained for when the object of his desire introduces him to the object of hers . . .

An aging millionaire awakes buried in a cheap coffin with only a lamp and a bell for company . . .

The son of a woman accused of being a witch accepts the villagers’ peace offering at her funeral, but all is not quite as it seems . . .

A woman with a violent past realizes that this year’s Halloween party may be coming for her . . .

And a lonely trick-or-treater awakes in a house rumored to be a place of death.

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke comes the second in his series of seasonal collections. Featuring seven reprints, a brand new story “The Toll”, an introduction, and rounded out by the author’s recommended reading and viewing lists, Dead Leaves makes for the perfect autumnal read.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Someone to Carve the Pumpkins
  • Haven
  • How the Night Receives Them
  • Tonight the Moon is Ours
  • The Toll
  • Will You Tell Them I Died Quietly?
  • Not While I’m Around
  • The Tradition
  • Recommended Books
  • Recommended Movies
  • About the Author
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Kealan Patrick Burke's Dead Leaves: 8 Tales from the Witching Season is an ebook collection of Halloween Stories

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