#Spooktober ‘Halloween Season’ by Lucy A.Snyder

About the book…

Halloween is the most wonderful part of the year for many of us. For dedicated fans, the season begins when the leaves start turning autumn colors and doesn’t finish until Hallowtide ends in November. With it comes a whole lot of fun: scary movies and stories, haunted houses, seasonal sweets, spooky decorations, costume parties, and of course trick or treat. But Halloween is also a deeply spiritual time for some; it’s an opportunity to remember and honor loved ones who have passed on.

Master storyteller Lucy A. Snyder has filled her cauldron with everything that Halloween means to her and distilled it into a spell-binding volume of stories. Within these pages you’ll find thrills and chills, hilarity and horrors, the sweet and the naughty.

One of the best things about Halloween is you don’t have to be yourself. So go ahead and try on a new mask or two… you may discover hidden talents as a witch, a pirate, a space voyager, a zombie fighter, or even an elf. This is the perfect collection to celebrate the season of the dead or to summon those heady autumn vibes whenever you like. You may even find a couple of tales that evoke a certain winter holiday that keeps trying to crowd in on the fun.

In the worlds within this book, every day is Halloween!

Published by Raw Dog Screaming Press in , appropriately, October 2020, ‘Halloween Season’ by Lucy A Snyder was nominated for a Best Collection Award by Ladies Of Horror Fiction

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All of these stories, and poems, have been printed elsewhere, and are not necessarily all set at Halloween. They are, however, spookily rendered for this time of year when nights are drawing in.

The cover is gorgeous, and between its pumpkin laden imagery, you will find cautionary tales, cosmic horror, monsters and witches of all sorts.

In The Great VuDu Teen Linux Zombie Massacre, computer applications take on a whole new meaning.

In The Family shows that that secrets are best kept between blood relatives.

The Porcupine Boy provides a medical service of a very different sort.

Wake Up Naked Monkey You’re Going To Die shows that respect for the seasons really should make a comback..

A mix of first, and third person narrations, crossing of genres and a wide variety of styles presents a tasting platter of Ms Snyder’s style, and I found it most agreeable.

It is a nice way to pass the evening, a lot of storytelling is packed into the relatively short length of the collection, and yes, I would recommend it if you are looking for something a bit different, a fresh voice and different take on , in my humble opinion, the best season.

About the author…

Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer and the author of the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess. She also authored the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide and the story collections While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.

Her writing has been translated into French, Italian, Russian, Czech and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Steampunk World, In the Court of the Yellow King, Shadows Over Main Street, Qualia Nous, Seize The Night, Scary Out There, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5.

She writes a column for Horror World and has written materials for the D6xD6 role-playing game system. In her day job, she edits online college courses for universities worldwide and occasionally helps write educational games.

Lucy lives in Columbus, Ohio and is a mentor in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction.

Links-http://www.lucysnyder.com/

Twitter @LucyASnyder