Be still my heart, something spooky this way comes…
When it comes to romantic holidays, Valentine’s Day seems to have the market cornered. And something about all that cold weather just seems to bring out the romantic vibes around Christmas and New Years.
But true lovers know the deepest, most romantic holiday of them all is clearly Halloween.
Who do you reach for when something goes bump in the night? When all is dark and frightening, who is the light that sees you through?
In Halloween Hearts, twelve authors show us all the ways love can haunt us when Spooky Season comes around.
Even the most terrifying of swamp monsters might be hiding a gooey heart for those brave enough to really look at it, and when we face our fears together, we grow together. Some of these stories are sweet. Some of them are frightening. All of them have a heart that beats beyond the grave.
Because even death cannot stop true love.
Edited by Ron Collins and Brigid Collins, Halloween Hearts includes:
- “Dawn at Chapel Bluff” by D.B. Olmsted
- “The Stone at Coill an Duin” by Anthea Sharp
- “We Only Live at Midnight” by Robert Jeschonek
- “Roll Credits” by Stefon Mears
- “Skeletons in the Closet, Bats in the Belfry” by Annie Reed
- “Permeable” by B.A. Paul
- “The Dead Room” by DeAnna Knippling
- “Flickering Candles” by Alexandra Brandt
- “A Dark Stormy Night” by Laura Ware
- “Pumpkin Guts” by Emily Munro
- “The Sleepy Hollow Boys” by Kate MacLeod
- “Carver’s Walk” by Ryan M. Williams
When strangers from vastly different backgrounds collide, the potential fallouts are infinite. Mayhem, destruction, and domination. Cooperation, friendship, and even love.
Within these pages you’ll find stories of man vs. man, sapient vs. sapient, and culture vs. culture. These tales span the entire spectrum from political strife among the far-flung stars to the mundane horror of Earthly paperwork. But whether the stories take place in the stars, or in worlds touched by elemental magic, or even in the brother-vs-brother milieu of the American Civil War, you can be sure the characters involved will be as strange to one another as they can imagine.