Nancy A. Collins, author of the Sonja Blue vampire slayer books, has
several short stories available for free through October 26th.
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Hopedale Press, my epublishing venture, is pleased to announce its celebrating the Halloween season with a special promotion: The Happy Hopedale Halloween Giveaway!
Starting Midnight (PST) Monday, October 22nd and running until the Witching Hour (PST) Thursday, October 26th, every Halloween-themed ebook in the Hopedale Press catalog will be available for free on Amazon Kindle.
The ebooks that comprise the giveaway promotion are The Pumpkin Child, Judgment Night and Calaverada (which is set during Dia de los Muertos, but why split hairs?).
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The Pumpkin Child
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Hollis Railsback returned home from World War Two to find both his family business and his high school sweetheart stolen by the same man: Virgil Bayliss. Hollis had always envied Virgil's luck: everything seemed to come so easily to him, while he had to fight for everything he had.
Then one night,after taking a wrong turn on an old dirt road, Hollis finds himself at the shack of Granny Grimes, the old witchy-woman who lives in the middle of a pumpkin patch. Granny Grimes offers to swap his luck with that of Virgil--but once his luck is changed, he can never switch it back. The very next day his luck begins to while, at the same time, Virgil Bayliss contracts polio.
But, after years of good fortune in business and love, when he and his wife experienced trouble having children, Hollis decides to push his luck yet again--with disastrous consequences that finally come to a head on Halloween night.
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Judgment Night
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Four bored teens break into a house on Halloween in order to play a trick on the owner, only to find themselves the prey of a depraved serial killer.Can they survive a night of unspeakable horror and escape a madman's terrible judgment? Find out in this suspenseful tale written by Nancy A.Collins, author of the best-selling Sunglasses After Dark, and one of the undisputed masters of modern horror.
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Calaverada
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It's the Old West, and a group of hired killers have been commissioned to finish off the Wolf Pack, a band of outlaws lead by the notorious Dixie Jim, who have been raiding the gold fields of California and fleeing behind the Mexican border whenever things get too hot for them. When Big Luther and his gang of bounty arrive in Mexico on the Day of the Dead, things only get weirder, and deadlier, from there. Award-winning writer Nancy A. Collins, author of Sunglasses After Dark, delivers yet another tale of the Weird Weird West for your enjoyment.
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