My trick is your treat!
Halloween is now less than two weeks away and the stores are filled with candy, costumes and all the decorations you can imagine that will turn your Home Sweet Home into a Haunted House of Horrors.
Or not.
Some can do without Halloween, whether they don’t enjoy it, don’t have kids to beg them to go out trick-or-treating, or they just don’t believe in it. And that’s okay. It’s not a season everyone has fun with.
Personally, I enjoy Halloween.
When my boys were little, we had a lot of fun carving pumpkins, decorating, dressing up and going out trick-or-treating. I also love scary movies, although I really don’t care for really gory films. You know the ones…no real plot, cardboard characters and plenty of gore for shock value. I can watch scary movies anytime I want all year long but it’s just much more fun during the Halloween season.
Favorite frightful characters? Zombies, of course, and one particular clown.
Besides the movies I can choose from if I feel the need to watch a scary flick, I also enjoy watching two of my favorite shows which are perfect for this time of year: The Walking Dead and American Horror Story. Zombies…that’s a given when it comes to what might frighten people, real or not, but my new favorite scary character is the clown character in American Horror Story. He beats them all, hands down, even Stephen King’s clown from his novel, It, and that was a clown that kept some people up at night.
Of course, I also enjoy books of the horror, thriller or supernatural genre. Stephen King and John Saul are two of my favorite authors. I can’t count the number of novels by both authors that I’ve read more than a few times.
Were you aware I wrote my own spooky tale?
While mysteries are my favorite genre when it comes to reading, and writing, I took a chance and wrote my own ghost story, 1313 Psycho Path. It was originally a story I wrote for my boys but decided to publish for others to enjoy. Compared to what I’m used to reading, it’s not all that scary. But I really enjoyed writing it.
This isn’t a story about zombies or clowns; no worries there. This is a ghost story. Also, it’s a short ghost story, not a full-length novel. I’ve been told by others they enjoyed reading it; except there were a few who couldn’t make it past the first few chapters because they said it was too scary for them. I have to admit, I felt like I accomplished a great trick when I discovered I can write well enough to scare readers. That’s a real treat!
Now here’s a treat for you…
If you’d like a copy of the eBook now, you can purchase it for only $0.99 cents today. However, if you prefer FREE eBooks (who doesn’t love free?), you can wait to obtain a free copy during a special promo from October 23rd through October 25th! Just check back at the Amazon page for 1313 Psycho Path this weekend for your free copy.
If ghost stories interest you, I hope you check out my ghost story for a fun, quick read for the holiday season!
Happy Halloween!
