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Autumn Harvest: A Celebration Of Halloween And The Macbre

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Autumn Harvest: A Celebration of Halloween and the Macbre… brings together all the fun things that scared you as a kid about Halloween while taking those stories a step further in adding a new dimension that will horrify and sicken you as an adult.

In this creepy and dark humored anthology consisting of a dozen or so short-fiction pieces and the Novella, “A Pumpkins’ Halloween” you will be catapulted back into the world you remember as a child where ghost, vampires, zombies, all kinds of boogeymen were real. You will also experience a new form of terror as an adult in reading these stories because many of the villains that these tales encompass could be easily pulled right out of the headlines.

Such stories in this book include:

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