Today we continue our look at the Halloween Stories 2011 Series with a trio of Halloween horror novels in the revised Orangefield Cycle by Al Sarrantonio.
Most people know that Orangefield, N.Y. , is the Halloween capital of America. What they don’t know is that many years ago the townsfolk committed a grievous sin which lead the way for the rise of Samhain.
I don’t know who owns the digital copyright to these stories but I’d love to see Crossroad Press reissue them before Halloween.
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Horrorween, The first book in the revised Orangefield Cycle brings together a short story called “Hornets” (2001), a novelette called The Pumpkin Boy (2005), and a novel titled Orangefield (2002), into one magnificent epic tale.
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Horrorween (The Orangefield Cycle #1)Author: Sarrantonio, Al |
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For untold ages a dark presence has shrouded the small town of Orangefield. In addition to the plentiful pumpkins that gave the town its name, Orangefield is home to the dreaded Lord of Death himself, Samhain. Despite rumors of his existence, and rare, brief sightings, Samhain has long been content to leave the local inhabitants alone. But that’s about to change . . . When a boy from the town disappears, detective Bill Grant is convinced Samhain is responsible. But even Grant cannot imagine the horrific extent of the Lord of Death’s grand scheme. As what may prove to be the last Halloween approaches, the fate of the world will depend on the survival of a small group of people, pawns in a terrifying game of cosmic proportions. Another Summary: In the town of Orangefield, nestled in a glorious orange ring of pumpkin patches in the mountains of upstate New York, Halloween is the best time of year. Orangefield produces the cleanest, fattest, brightest-colored, longest-lasting-after-picking, finest pumpkins in the East, and its week-long Pumpkin Days festival, with its contests, cook-offs and decorations, is the finest celebration of autumn anywhere. But there is a darker, more secret side to Halloween in Orangefield. For the town has become the home of Samhain, the Celtic Lord of Death, whose own ancient festival became the modern holiday of pumpkin carving and trick or treating. In Orangefield, myths and stories of Samhain abound. But this year myth becomes reality as the Lord of Halloween attempts to usher in a reign of death and destruction to the idyllic town — and the world. The fate of all life rests in the hands of a little girl called Wizard, and the remembrance of a long forgotten horror . . . |
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Hallows Eve, the second book in the revise Orangefield Cycle was a new work with no earlier story worked into it. It was published first as a limited edition hardcover novel from Cemetery Dance and then as a mass market paperback from Leisure.
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Hallows Eve (The Orangefield Cycle #2)Author: Sarrantonio, Al |
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Hallows Eve (The Orangefield Cycle #2)Author: Sarrantonio, Al |
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A cemetery with ghosts rising like screaming tendrils of smoke from their graves . . . Trick or Treaters whose goblin features are real, not costumes . . . An army of Pumpkin Men . . . They’re all here and more, waiting for Corrie Phaeder to come home . . . Corrie Phaeder has spent the last twelve years in Los Angeles — at the age of thirty he’s a successful photographer of famous people, has a girlfriend who adores him, and has everything he’s ever wanted in life. And then, almost in the blink of an eye, his career is ruined, his girlfriend leaves him, and he finds himself on a train to Orangefield, the one place on Earth he never wanted to see again — the place where all the horrible dreams or memories never end, and where, this Halloween, a messenger from a world just beyond ours named John, with the body of a scarecrow and the face of a living pumpkin, will usher Corrie Phaeder into the last battle for everything . . . Hallows Eve, a full-length novel, is the latest tale in Al Sarrantonio’s Orangefield cycle. |
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Halloweenland, the third book in the revised Orangefield Cycle reworks and expands upon the novella originally published as The Baby (2006).
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Halloweenland (The Orangefield Cycle #3)Author: Sarrantonio, Al |
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Halloweenland (The Orangefield Cycle #3)Author: Sarrantonio, Al |
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A new full-length Orangefield Halloween novel from Al Sarrantonio! On a fallow pumpkin patch a carnival springs to life, bringing Death in its wake . . . In Orangefield, Halloween is never normal, and this year is no exception. For this year, Orangefield, already the pumpkin capital of the world, is the new home to Halloweenland, a holiday carnival extraordinaire run by the mysterious Mr. Dickens. Orangefield is also the home of Detective Bill Grant, who has seen it all, and who is on the track of a strange little girl who holds the fate of the Universe in her hands. The trail will lead from Orangefield to Ireland, the ancient home of Samhain, Lord of the Dead, and back to Halloweenland — where, on what may be the last Halloween ever, the ultimate confrontation between Death and Life will take place. And where Detective Grant, in the end, will find the strangest of allies . . . |
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