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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2014 6:56:48 GMT
Paula Guran (ed.) - Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre (Prime, Sept. 2013)  Sandra Cunningham
Stephen Graham Jones - Thirteen
Norman Partridge - The Mummy’s Heart
Carrie Vaughn - Unternehmen Werwolf
Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem - Lesser Fires
Jonathan Maberry - Long Way Home: A Pine Deep Story
Laird Barron - Black Dog
Maria V. Snyder - The Halloween Men
Lawrence Connolly - Pumpkin Head Escapes
Caitlín R. Kiernan - Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still
A. C. Wise - For the Removal of Unwanted Guests
Jay Caselberg - Angelic
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Quadruple Whammy
Brian Hodge - We, the Fortunate Bereaved
Brenda Cooper - All Hallows in the High Hills
Nancy Kilpatrick - Trick or Treat
Laura Bickle - From Dust
Barbara Roden - All Souls Day
John Shirley - And When You Called Us We Came To Youblurb The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of the past, the more we've come to love Halloween—the one time each year when the mundane is overturned in favor of the bizarre, the "other side" is closest, and everyone can become anyone (or anything) they wish,... and sometimes what they don't. Introducing eighteen original stories from mistresses and masters of the dark, celebrating the most fantastic, enchanting; spooky, and supernatural of holidays.This one has been hanging around the local library all neglected for months, finally loaned it yesterday and what do you know, it features a modern, 50 page mummy classic! This is editor Pauline Guran's second Oct 31st theme anthology, the first being 2011's Halloween from the same publisher. Norman Partridge - The Mummy’s Heart: "It takes a long time for a dead girl to grow into a princess, and this one's mine." Hospital porter Charlie Steiner, 23, spends Halloween 1963 prowling the local lover's lane in full mummy regalia. Mentally deranged he may be but Charlie's a damn fine method actor - he's even sliced his tongue and lopped off two fingers to bring an authentic touch to the charade. Charlie is deathly serious about all this. He's learned the incantation by heart and tonight will see him raise his black magic dream woman from Butcher's Lake. To ensure success he's brought along a special little something ... But it is not to be. A combination of three teen trick-or-treaters and Sheriff Cross spoil Charlie's plan, and he's shot down in a hail of bullets. The madman is not the night's only fatality. The narrator loses his 13-year-old brother, and they never did find the body of the little bound girl in the princess mask. Ten years later. Our narrator is recently returned from four years in 'nam. Sheriff Cross recruits him as deputy. All goes relatively smoothly until the night of October 31st when the law men walk in on a biker gang's orgy with a mystery girl at Butcher's Lake ... Pop culure references include Merle Haggard in Okie from Muskogee mood, Iron Butterfly, and "Goddam loud hippie music"s Stephen Graham Jones - Thirteen: The Big Chief theater has seen its share of tragedies including a castration in the bathroom. The local kids know for sure it is haunted, and they've evolved a myth that, if you hold your breath for long enough during a horror film, you can will those same horrors into existence. This is all very well until popular Marcus Tider, the school swimming champ, dies of a tumour after attempting the trick during a creature feature. But what happens to Grace when she supervises a group of trick or treaters in her Little Bo Peep costume is even worse. Carrie Vaughn - Unternehmen Werwolf: I not a lover of werewolf-with-a-conscious types so me and young Fritz were never going to see jaundiced eye to jaundiced eye. He's a reluctant Nazi, recruited to Colonel Scorenzy's special unit (special as in they are all lycanthropes), and entrusted with the assasination of collaberator nurse Maria Lang. It ought to be a walk in the park, but tonight is Halloween and Maria is not exactly Florence Nightingale.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 13, 2014 0:52:29 GMT
One trick, one pretty nasty treat. Both good stories, but I know which I prefer.
A. C. Wise - For the Removal of Unwanted Guests:A witch arrives on loner Michael Remmington's doorstep, informs him she and her cat, Spencer, are moving in until at least Halloween, and that he has no say in the matter. The witch has lived many lives and suffered several unpleasant deaths including a lynching and a burning at the stake. To play fair, she leaves her spell book lying around for him to find. It falls open on the page detailing the formula for the removal of unwanted guests. Will he or won't he?
John Shirley - And When You Called Us We Came To You: China. The female inmates of the brutal Shen Yang labour camp are put to hand-trimming Halloween masks for export to the USA. Chun, halfway through her sentence, can't take one more beating and calls upon the ghosts of her ancestors to protect her.
America, where "Goths dress like bad moods" and Princess Doggie is riding high on the charts with latest anthem Who's the losiest loser here ("Who's the one with Facebook fake up/ who's the one with fucked up makeup?"). Rather than attend a Halloween party with her recently divorced Ma who is sure to make a drunken slut of herself again, Maura invites over teenage pals Gwen the hefty Goth and tiny Filipino Julia. Bored stupid with the ouija board, the trio climb onto the roof with the remnants of a spliff, a bottle of booze and four condom water-bombs to lob at hunky Cliff the stoner. Maura first realises something's wrong when a dancing plastic skeleton shins up the drainpipe. Soon all of the Halloween decorations have come to life to wage war on the neighbourhood. This is so much better than the kids could have hoped for.
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