Horror at Halloween

Horror at Halloween

by Jo Fletcher, Diane Duane (Contributor), Stephen Bowkett (Contributor)

Oxrun Station is different. Nobody can really explain it. You just have to understand that bizarre things happen there. No one knows why, they just do. Weird things. The kind of things you don't even want to dream about in your worst nightmares. Like what happens this Halloween to Sam Jones, Eleanor Trent, Tina Broadbent, Chuck Antrim, and Cody Banning... Maybe it really is the rare conjunction of Mars and Saturn with Venus, lowering the barriers between our world and another, shadowy realm...or maybe it is just that the full moon always brings out the strangeness in that place. Trick or Treat is crazy enough, with ghosts and goblins and witches and warlocks and all manner of other nasties roaming the street. But in Oxrun Station, the masks aren't always made of rubber. This year the fabric of the cosmos is unravelling, and dark and dangerous things are leaking across the borders... For five unsuspecting teenagers, their lives will never be the same again as they discover the hidden terrors lurking beneath the surface of their quiet town and experience the most horrifying Halloween of them all... Aimed at older teenagers and adults who like their horror stories to have a supernatural twist, this mosaic novel is meant to be read on any dark and spooky night.

Genres: Horror, Halloween

402 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Jo Fletcher is an award-winning poet, writer, critic, journalist and currently editorial director of Victor Gollancz, one of Britain's largest genre fiction publishers, responsible for, amongst other things, the Fantasy Masterworks list.

Winner of the International Society of Poets' Critics' Choice Award, the British Fantasy Society's first ever Karl Edward Wagner Award and the World Fantasy Award, her poetry, fiction and non-fiction has appeared widely. She has edited several anthologies, both alone and with multi-award-winner Stephen Jones; her first poetry collection, SHADOWS OF LIGHT AND DARK, was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award.