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01. Disappearances, 3 stars. Relating various tales of people going missing.
02. The Old Nurse's Story, 4 stars. [2018]
03. The Squire's Story, 3 stars. Flashy gentleman wins over town with his hunting and easy spending.
04. The Poor Clare, 3 stars. Witchy woman curses rich asshole, searches for daughter.
05. The Doom of the Griffiths, 3 stars. Family curse plays out to foretold extinction.

Wiki: "...but some years afterwards occurred the discoveries of the Hare and Burke horrors, and people seemed to gain a dark glimpse at his fate..."

DNF

01. The Gray Champion, 2 stars. Ghost of a bible thumper makes British tyrants back off with a speech.
02. The Minister's Black Veil, 3 stars. [2018]
03. The Maypole of Merry Mount, 1 star. Bible thumpers ruin town's festival and arrest everyone.

08. Mr. Eastwood's Adventure, 3 stars. Struggling writer receives a mysterious phone call from beautiful woman.
09. Philomel Cottage, 3 stars. Wife is overcome with suspicion about her new whirlwind romance husband.
10. Accident, 3 stars. Retired policeman recognizes suspected murderess under a new name.
11. The Second Gong, 3 stars. Poirot's client dies just before he arrives to investigate financial discrepancies.

05. Wireless, 3 stars. Old lady with a heart condition hears a familiar voice on the radio.
06. The Mystery of the Blue Jar, 4 stars. Golfer repeatedly hears a cry for help at a specific time.
07. Sing a Song of Sixpence, 3 stars. Older gent made empty promise to hot girl, she requests he solve a family murder ten years later.

01. The Witness for the Prosecution, 3 stars. Alibi falls through for man charged with murder.
02. The Red Signal, 3 stars. Tense dinner party leaves all with a feeling of dread.
03. The Fourth Man, 2 stars. Men on train discuss a French girl with DID.
04. S.O.S., 2 stars. Man needing shelter interrupts tense family moment.

13. Paul Kane - The Turn, 3 stars. Stalking people to make them to look behind themselves.
14. Pat Cadigan - Jack, 2 stars. Another Stingy Jack rehash, sassy lady outsasses sassy ghost and Jack.
15. John Langan - Lost in the Dark, 5 stars. Former teacher of creator fact checks the origins of a famous horror film.
16. John R. Little - The First Lunar Halloween, 4 stars. Teacher tries to bring back Halloween.

Wiki: "Aoyama, for his part, had had several presentations for TV commercials just before and after the o-bon holidays, so it was late August before they had a chance to travel together..."

Wiki: "Which is fine, but once you’ve started dating it’s not as if you can arrange an omiai with someone else, is it?"

10. Brian Evenson - Sisters, 4 stars. Foreign children want to take part in unfamiliar holiday, mother relents.
11. Elise Forier Edie - All Through the Night, 3 stars. Ignorant widow struggles to make a life for her baby in the new world.
12. Eric J. Guignard - A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds, 2 stars. Grieving no-good friend tries to call up his dead best friend to apologize.

07. Jeffrey Ford - Witch Hazel, 3 stars. Twin sisters get violent at Halloween party, doctor suspects illness.
08. Kelley Armstrong - Nos Galan Gaeaf, 4 stars. Teen plots to rid himself of the object of his obsession using the old ways.
09. S.P. Miskowski - We're Never Inviting Amber Again, 4 stars. Malicious husband takes every opportunity to mock "psychic" sister-in-law.

Wiki: "He heard the chatter and laughter grow louder, and he turned onto his street just as the Mari Lwyd left a house. "

Wiki: "...people who lived in the woods or close to them would pin to their coats ... a flowering sprig of witch hazel. It’s a shrub that ... blossoms right around Halloween. The flower looks like a creature from a deep-sea trench, yellow tentacles instead of petals radiating from a dark brown center that holds a single seed."

04. Joanna Parypinski - Wick's End, 2 stars. Lazy rehash of Stingy Jack, trading ghost stories in a bar.
05. Garth Nix - The Seventeen-Year Itch, 4 stars. New boss at mental hospital throws her weight around about elderly patient's unusual care.
06. Kate Jonez - A Flicker of Light on Devil's Night, 4 stars. Harried mother of two is strapped for cash, kids don't mind her.

01. Seanan McGuire - With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds, 3 stars. Troublemakers plan to trash local haunted house, meet the owner.
02. Stephen Graham Jones - Dirtmouth, 4 stars. Widower and small children go to cabin on the mountain for some family time.
03. Jonathan Maberry - A Small Taste of the Old Country, 4 stars. Old foreign baker invites "local" men to his home for a feast.

16. There Was an Old Woman, 2 stars. Stubborn spinster refuses to believe in death.
17. The Cistern, 2 stars. Sister daydreams about dead lovers in the sewer.
18. Homecoming, 3 stars. Disappointingly normal son is ignored at massive family gathering.
19. The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone, 3 stars. Fan visits famous author to find out why he abruptly gave up his promising career.

12. The Scythe, 2 stars. Family inherits a well-stocked house with a catch.
13. Uncle Einar, 3 stars. Man loses some spatial sense after accident.
14. The Wind, 4 stars. Wife disapproves of husband's delusional friend phoning at all hours.
15. The Man Upstairs, 3 stars. Curious grandson takes instant dislike to new lodger.

06. The Lake, 4 stars. Mourning the loss of a childhood friend.
07. The Emissary, 4 stars. Bedridden boy explores the world through his dog.
08. Touched with Fire, 2 stars. Busybodies stalk loud angry lady.
09. The Small Assassin, 4 stars. New mother suspects baby is trying to harm her.
10. The Crowd, 4 stars. [2018]
11. Jack-in-the-Box, 3 stars. Woman uses husband's death as an excuse to raise son in isolation.

01. The Dwarf, 3 stars. Resentful boyfriend punishes customer for attracting girl's attention.
02. The Next in Line, 4 stars. Wife is creeped out in Mexican town, husband isn't bothered.
03. The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse, 4 stars. Hipsters ironically adore boring guy.
04. Skeleton, 4 stars. Neurotic man thinks bones are conspiring against him.
05. The Jar, 4 stars. Fascinated man buys carnival attraction.

12. Adam Light - Trick 'Em All, 2 stars. Angsty teen hates parents, talks to pumpkin.
13. Joanna Koch - Offerings, 3 stars. New in town, woman strikes up conversation with harried mother of 4-5 little brats.
14. Lisa Lepovetsky - Masks, 3 stars. Couples costumed pair have a serious chat at Halloween party.

Wiki: "Of interest is the sale of the two elephants, Castor and Pollux, who went to the wealthy butcher Deboos for 27,000 francs."

Wiki: "When he played hares and hounds with the village boys he was always the last to be caught, if caught at all."

09. Ian Welke - Between, 1 star. Drug-addled girl can't make decisions.
10. Thomas Vaughn - The Friendly Man, 4 stars. Neighbor has gruesome decorations every year, kids love it.
11. Sean Eads & Joshua Viola - Many Carvings, 2 stars. Local midwife tends to ailing townsfolk, has a pumpkin patch.

05. Josh Malerman - Adam's Bed, 4 stars. Flashy dad's birthday party for son is interrupted by masked intruder.
06. Jason Parent - Keeping Up Appearances, 3 stars. Thieves find irresistible house too good to be true.
07. Chad Lutzke - Vigil, 4 stars. Neighborhood turns out to watch the police uncover a grim discovery.
08. Gregor Xane - Mr. Impossible, 4 stars. Friend's teen son spikes Halloween treats.

01. Charles A. Gramlich - A Plague of Monsters, 2 stars. Man overreacts to early trick or treaters.
02. Curtis M. Lawson - The Rye-Mother, 2 stars. Jehovah's Witness kid feels drawn to corn maze.
03. Amber Fallon - The Day of the Dead, 3 stars. Dressing like a skeleton for half price drinks.
04. Evans Light - Rusty Husk, 4 stars. Neighbor goes above and beyond for Halloween decorations.

Wiki: "...he looked up through the blood and the haze and saw that oily black domino mask looking back at him across history, looking down at him from the sky, where it had been mounted."

Domino mask > Venetian Carnival

Word: "If that motorway doesn’t go through Knocknaree, and fast ... the boy’s banjaxed."

1. Broken, ruined, shattered; confounded
2. Tired, sleepy, cream crackered

Wiki: "My desk in school, old deep-grained wood with an obsolete hole in the top for an inkwell, worn shiny and inlaid with years of doodles: a hurley stick, a heart with the initials inside scribbled over, DES PEARSE WAS HERE 12/10/67."

Wiki: "This summer explodes on your tongue tasting of chewed blades of long grass, your own clean sweat, Marie biscuits with butter squirting through the holes and shaken bottles of red lemonade picnicked in tree houses."