October

A magician and a dark evil at Halloween come together an an intriguing coming-of-age thriller. Readers of Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and All Hallows by Christopher Golden will love this. In 1970, four boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers notice strange events occurring in Maplewood, NH, timed with the late-night arrival of an old magician who has taken up residence in a boarding house in their neighborhood where one of the tenants is a reclusive pulp horror writer. The writer's fears have kept him from venturing outside in over forty years, fears linked to the magician's previous visit. As children go missing in town, the four boys try to piece together seemingly unrelated phenomena and realize dark forces are at work, but no one will believe them. AUTHOR: Gregory Bastianelli is the author of the novels, ?Shadow Flicker, ?Snowball,? ?Loonies,? and ?Jokers Club.? His novella ?The Lair of the Mole People? appeared in the pulp anthology ?Men & Women of Mystery Vol. II.?