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Four Octobersby Rick HautalaThe days are getting shorter, and the wind blows cold from the north. Afterthe maple and oak leaves turn from green to bright reds, golds, and oranges,they wither, fall, and die, clattering like old bones as they blow down thestreet in the twilight. The sun isn't as bright as it used to be, and thenights are dark and cold and long. This is the time of the harvest thetime of Hallowe'en and a time for reminiscences of the summer just pastand of other summers, now long gone. This is a time of mystery andexpectation as the earth prepares for the frigid onslaught of winter.Four Octobers collects for the first time four loosely interconnectednovellas from the vivid imagination of best-selling author Rick Hautala.Each story is set in October, the month of pumpkins and trick or treat, ofskeletons and haunted graveyards, and each story is filled with nostalgiafor times past for summers and youth now gone for chances not takenfor opportunities now lost forever."Tin Can Telephone," set in 1957, tells the story of a young boy and hisfriend who, in the pre-dawn darkness while waiting to see the Russiansatellite Sputnik speed by overhead, experience a mystery and fear far moreterrifying than the threat of Soviets in space."Miss Henry's Bottles," perhaps Hautala's best story to date, tells how thesimple act of discarding two empty soda bottles on a neighbor's lawn bringsto light secrets that should have remained buried but like all secrets,this one eventually is revealed with devastating consequences."Blood Ledge," set in an Indian Summer of 1971, tells the tale of a youngboy who discovers a dark family secret that leads him to accept a familyinheritance that has horrifying results.And finally, "Cold River" is the story of a man so lost in loneliness anddepression following the death of his wife that he faces a horror worsemuch worse than drowning in the cold, dark river that flows by his house.Taken together, these stories show Rick Hautala writing at the top of hisgame, telling stories that will not only chill you when you read them, butwill leave you with an icy dread in your heart a dread much colder thanany October wind blowing down the street at night.

Release Date 07/10/2011
Author Rick Hautala
Language English
Companies Cemetery Dance Publications
Format Hardcover

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