Halloween Stories: Halloween Spirits

Halloween Spirits: 11 Tales for the Darkest Night

Editor: Morton, Lisa
Cover Art: Rick Pickman
Format: Digital eBook
Type: Horror Short Story Collection
Pub. Date: May 30, 2011
Publisher: Lisa Morton

In this book, you’ll find stories for the darkest night of the year from some of the top voices in dark fantasy and horror.

Two boys investigate a Halloween ghost, and learn a terrible truth . . . an encounter with a fortune-telling machine has deadly consequences . . . a World War II veteran finds out his cousin’s tragic romance was not of this world . . . a trick-or-treat game show pits kids against real monsters . . . Halloween angels unleash inner longings one night a year . . . and six more stories that will chill your bones like a late Autumn night.

Halloween Spirits: 11 Tales for the Darkest Night also includes an original essay by leading Halloween history expert Lisa Morton.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Lisa Morton
• Someone to Carve the Pumpkins by Kealan Patrick Burke
• Carrion Man by Joseph Nassise
• The Devil Came to Mamie’s on Hallowe’en by Lisa Morton
• The Gunner’s Love Song by Joe McKinney
• The October Girls by Scott Nicholson
• Trick or Die by Rick Pickman
• Thursday by Simon Janus
• The Outlaws of Hill County by John Palisano
• Bones Lie Quietly Now by Nate Kenyon
• Coming Home by Maria Alexander
• Almost Paradise by Jeremy Shipp
• The Contributors