Halloween Season

I don't know about you but I often find it difficult to find an easy but absorbing Halloween short story collection to read on that special evening/night. A novel is too big for one evening, and I find that most short stories are long winded. All I want is a quick short story that I can enjoy which has a Halloween theme. Halloween Season by Lucy A. Snyder offers the perfect solution. There is a poem to set the tone and then it is on to the essence of the book which are stories which range from humorous, nostalgic, classic, sheer horror and back again. It is akin to going door to door on Halloween night, and receiving a story at each house where you rung the doorbell. Each story is a world in itself and the writing reflects the sometimes surreal and the more often horrific circumstances of each tale being told. I found all of the stories in the collection interesting and enjoyable. Thank you to Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi for a copy of this book. I really did like reading it. It was refreshing to read short stories that don't feel like the author was trying to write a condensed book but more of a sitting by the campfire roasting marshmallows while telling scary stories type of treat.