Season of the Dead

TWENTY TERRIFYING TALES FOR HALLOWEEN, THE MOST FRIGHTENING NIGHT OF THE YEAR! "The Dead walk beside us in October...and this Halloween, they have a story to tell..." SEASON OF THE DEAD: SUPERNATURAL HORROR FOR HALLOWEEN opens the veil between the living and the dead with 20 classic and rare supernatural stories set on or around All Hallows Eve. Macabre masters and unjustly forgotten authors revisit centuries of Halloween legends...
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TWENTY TERRIFYING TALES FOR HALLOWEEN, THE MOST FRIGHTENING NIGHT OF THE YEAR!

"The Dead walk beside us in October...and this Halloween, they have a story to tell..."

SEASON OF THE DEAD: SUPERNATURAL HORROR FOR HALLOWEEN opens the veil between the living and the dead with 20 classic and rare supernatural stories set on or around All Hallows Eve. Macabre masters and unjustly forgotten authors revisit centuries of Halloween legends and folklore with stories of witches and demons, faeries and specters. These deliciously dark narratives from 19th & 20th centuries visit a time when the tricks were deadly, the treats horrifying, and people feared the dead.

Halloween--Samhain--Nut Crack night--Dia de los Muertos...on this night, ghosts, goblins, and ghouls cross into our realm, the familiar turns strange, and our most intimate fears are unmasked. A night of dark wonder and magic, mystery and the macabre. A Season of the Dead....

Experience Halloween like never before! Light your pumpkin, lock your door, and listen to leaves scurry...the dry, rustling feet of the dead. Open this book, and try not to think about who, or what, might be peering in your window to set by the fire.

From landmark supernatural fiction by Edgar Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and H.P. Lovecraft to literary nightmares by William Huntley, H.B. Marriott-Watson, Douglas Hyde, and Fritz-James O''Brien, there is a dark treat for every taste...along with some frightful tricks! Forgotten female authors appear in funerary finery, including E. Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Mrs. Henry Wood, and Mrs. J.H. Riddell. Horror favorites M.R. James, W.W. Jacobs, Bram Stoker, J.S. Le Fanu, and Robert W. Chambers stand alongside Nobel prize winning author Anatole France.

Feel October''s mingling of dread, lounging, and excitement. A celebration of olde halloween, when the monsters were real, the dead returned, and demons stalked every road.

Editor WILLIAM P. SIMMONS ushers readers through the Undiscovered Country of All Hallows with "Stories the Dead Know", a thorough Introduction examining the holiday''s history, lore, and literature. Notes and Annotations create an eerie and informative context for readers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• INTRODUCTION: STORIES THE DEAD KNOW, by William P. Simmons
• ULALUME: A BALLAD (1847) by Edgar Allan Poe
• MAN-SIZE IN MARBLE (1887) by E. Nesbit
• THE LOST ROOM (1858) by Fitz-James O''Brian
• KEN''S MYSTERY (1883) by Julian Hawthorne
• THE LAST OF SQUIRE ENNISMORE (1888) by Mrs. J.H. Riddell
• THE THREE SISTERS (1914) by W.W. Jacobs
• THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM (1865) by William Hunt
• COUNT MAGNUS (1904) by M.R. James
• TEIG O'' KANE AND THE CORPSE (1888) by Dr. Douglas Hyde
• DRACULA''S GUEST (1914) by Bram Stoker
• THE CHILD THAT WENT WITH THE FAERIES (1870) by J.S. Le Fanu
• THE SCARECROW (1918) by G. Ranger Wormser
• MASS OF SHADOWS (1927) by Anatole France
• YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN (1855) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• REALITY, OR DELUSION? (1868) by Mrs. Henry Wood
• THE DEVIL OF THE MARSH (1893) by H.B. Marriott-Watson
• THE MESSENGER (1897) by Robert W. Chambers
• THE VOW ON HALLOWEEN (1924) by Lyllian Huntley Harris
• THE DUNWICH HORROR (1928) by H.P. Lovecraft
• ALL SOULS (1909) by Edith Wharton

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Editor William P. Simmons is a supernatural fiction author, critic, & journalist. Seven of his stories earned Honorable Mentions in The Year''s Best Fantasy & Horror. By Reason of Darkness was praised by Publisher''s Weekly, All Hallows & Cemetery Dance. Graham Masterton, Hugh B. Cave & T.M. Wright endorsed his fiction. He has interviewed such authors as Richard Matheson, F. Paul Wilson & Caitlin Kiernan.

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