Trade Paperback - 6 x 9 inches - 130 pages With a preface by Halloween expert and award-winning author Lisa Morton and 15 atmospheric full-page black and white illustrations by Dan Sauer. Put on your costume, grab your pumpkin-shaped treat-bucket, and come discover what treasures are to be found past the glad and sunlit season, where both the dying year-and youth itself-confront what it means to face the darkness at summer’s end. Often recalling the charming rhymes on vintage postcards, these poems take us on a stirring journey deep into October’s heart, offering treats-and a few tricks-to those brave enough to follow the jack-o’-lantern’s orange grin into the night. OPPERMAN conjures up a pageant of autumnal imagery sure to delight all fans of the Halloween season. Personalized inscriptions from the author are only possible with preorders.Ī TOR NIGHTFIRE SELECTION FOR TOP 10 HORROR POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2020

Note on signed books: If you are ordering a signed copy, please indicate in the notes section how you would like the book inscribed. Lesley's books will be available for purchase and signing.SIGNED COPIES ARE IN STOCK! Select from the pulldown menu at the bottom of the page for options. Diving right into the heart of how fear turned into a form of entertainment, she asks: What kind of community does twenty-first-century Halloween create? How does the 21st century relate to Halloween's icons-ghosts, witches, jack-'o-lanterns, monsters-and what is that makes Halloween so relevant for so many adults today? Through the course of her research, Bannatyne hunted ghosts with paranormal investigators, participated in a Samhain ritual gathering, World Zombie Day march, the Village Halloween parade, and several off-season gatherings of Halloween fans such as the Haunted Attraction National Tradeshow and Convention (HAuNTcon). 'So much that's been written about Halloween has been about the holiday's history or about how to decorate, cook, and costume for it (guilty, all counts), but there's not been much written about what it is today, who makes Halloween, and why,' writes Bannatyne in the book's introduction. Traveling across the country, she visited and talked with horror fanatics and fang makers, professional haunters, registered mediums, psychologists, and Halloween enthusiasts ranging from NPR's Garrison Keillor to Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and The Simpsons' 'Treehouse of Horror' writer Mike Reiss, to find out what the increasingly popular holiday means to people and how they celebrate it. It took two years of investigative work for Halloween author Lesley Pratt Bannatyne to add a fifth book to her collection. Metrowest Regional Emergency Planning Committee Metrowest Commission on the Status of Women

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