Bøker av Ronald Kelly

Within this dark crypt, lie stories long untold...These are the forgotten fables... tales that have suffered the fate of premature burial. Shrouded and unceremoniously laid to rest. Stories that languish in deep shadow and tattered cobweb, abandoned and unread.Within these pages, you will find ten such yarns of Southern horror. Novellas, novelettes, and short stories that appeared briefly in limited editions and bygone periodicals, then faded into obscurity and became relics of the past.In this volume, Ronald Kelly lifts the shroud to give you a peek underneath. Like the good Doctor Frankenstein, he has sewn these lost tales together and resurrected them into a palpable and bone-chilling collection, to live and breathe, unnerve and horrify once again.

When you first enter The Halloween Store, things seem normal. Fun and frightful decorations, ghastly costumes and masks of the season, and bags of candy galore. Then, as you travel farther into its shadowy depths, things begin to change. The air smells of damp autumn leaves and candle-scorched pumpkin. The shelves of All Hallows' Eve fare grow darker and more disturbing. Strange and unsettling things of Halloweens past and present lurk amid the cobwebs and dust... Four trick-or-treaters purchase vintage costumes from a strip-mall shop, only to discover that they must sign a mysterious disclaimer for the Halloween celebration to come... After a man's missing daughter is found-near death and physically altered-he must once again face a horrifying monster from his own childhood... A teenage girl hitches a ride after a Halloween rock & roll concert, only to learn that her favorite singing idol has made a pact with the Devil himself... Three kids receive unusual treats during a Halloween stop at their favorite teacher's house... During a random visit to his hometown, a businessman treats a young boy to the joy and excitement of a Halloween festival, only to find that things are not what they first appeared to be... A rash of ghoulish jack-o'-lanterns leads a small-town sheriff to the doorstep of one of the most notorious serial killers of all time... An advertisement in the back of an old comic book prompts two friends to place an order that they soon come to regret... Seven horrific tales and two nostalgic essays... hand-picked for your Trick-or-Treat bag. With the arrival of a 2020 Halloween, there is no telling what terrifying treats and petrifying prizes may await you!

From the introduction: Halloween is more than a holiday; more than a fun time of candy and costumes for the young. It is inoculated into our very being at an early age and there it remains. As we grow old, it grows dormant... but it is still there. For the lucky ones, such as us, it emerges every year, like a reanimated corpse digging its way out of graveyard earth to shamble across our souls. And we rejoice... oh, if we are the fortunate ones, we most certainly rejoice.So turn these pages and celebrate our heritage. Blow the dust off the rubber mask in the attic and hang the glow-in-the-dark skeleton upon the door. Light the hollowed head of the butchered pumpkin and string the faux cobweb from every corner and eave. It's Halloween once again. Shed your adult skin with serpentine glee and walk the blustery, October streets of long years past. And, most of all, watch out for misplaced steps in the darkness and the things that lurk, unseen, in the shadows in-between.Stories included in this collection: Mister Glow-BonesThe OuthouseBilly's MaskPins & NeedlesBlack HarvestPelingrad's PitMister Mack & the Monster MobileThe Halloween TrainThe Candy in the Ditch GangHalloweens: Past & PresentMonsters in a B