Friday, October 31, 2008
BOOK REVIEW & GIVEAWAY - Horror Stories collected by Susan Price - CONTEST CLOSED!
What could be better this time of year than a collection of spooky tales? Susan Price has filled the order with twenty-four short stories from the likes of John Steinbeck, Stephen King and Charles Dickens. Don't let the name Stephen King frighten you, though. The works in this book are relatively tame and aimed toward a younger (pre-teen?) audience. It is well-worth readng, even if just to enjoy The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, which has always been a favorite of mine. From the ghost of a murderer to a troll, Grendel the monster to needy chewing gum, this book has a story to suit every taste. My rating: 3/5
To enter, you must comment to this post. A winner will be chosen at random on November 14th. But my regular readers know there is a catch to the comment! You must comment on a memorable Halloween you have had. It can be a party memory, favorite costume, or the year your neighbors disappeared!
For me, my Halloween 'moment' happened when I was quite young. Dad took my brother and I out trick-or-treating on base where we lived. I was dressed as a witch - yet I came back as a clown! Turns out that a lady liked my witch's hat; so she did a trade with me. My mother was quite confused when we returned!
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I've posted this at Win A Book. No need to enter me in the contest.
One of my most memorable Halloween's was the year I dressed up as a Witch Doctor ~ complete with skull and feather headress. It was a great costume and I had fun passing out chocolate eyeballs for treats.
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When my younger brother and I were kids one year my mom made a giantic round paper mache head, so my little brother could go as Casper the Friendly Ghost. Well the whole night he couldn't see a thing and kept running into everything...I of course thought this was halairous....mean I knw, yet hey I am the older sister! : }
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Darby
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I never liked being scared as a kid. One year my uncle took me trick or treating and I had to work my way through a haunted house set up in a neighbor's garage just to get to the good stuff-the treats. I don't think I went trick or treating after that year!
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Um..not really a favorite costume but it was a real piece of work. I never know that the classic paper bag ghost was such a work. lol
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I'm a huge harry potter fan, so one year i dressed up as hermione granger. i think that's probably the most original i ever got (i was a clown for a few years...LOL) so it was definitely fun. :)
-Lauren
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ok one year i was walking up a porch to knock the door.
Out of nowhere, something jumped at me and startled me... BAD.
Involuntarily, I shrieked and punched it's nose.....I felt soo bad doing that to the person
Horror is my fave genre! I would love to win this!
My most memorable Halloween was the year me and 3 of my friends dressed up as the rock group KISS! People would make us sing for our treats! HA!
What a great book! Please enter me.
My halloween story is from 2000, I had a party at my house and my 2 co-workers and I came up with a great set of costumes. She and I were Dominatrix and our male co-worker was our sex slave. It was a hoot.. Lots of fun and I'll never forget it. That was my favorite halloween.
Faith
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I'm sure it was my son's first Halloween trick or treating. He was dressed as a cat and was not happy about it. He didn't cry but he didn't smile nor speak. He simply went through the motions with a straight face and he was probably oblivious to it all as well.
But, doggone it, he was so cute!
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