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The October Twilight
A couple of VHS tapes labeled only as The October Tapes volumes one and two were left at Old Joe's Records in Leedham, Massachusetts early one Halloween Morning. Minutes later, Frank O'Neill - an avid collector of unmarked VHS tapes and a paranormal buff - walked in.
Leedham was a town rich in urban legends, as well as a hotspot for cases involving missing people. After viewing the first tape Frank found himself standing at his living room window not knowing how he got there. The mysteries will only mount and the urban legends of Leedham and far beyond will soon be waiting for him right at his doorstep. From UFOs to men in black to four-legged goblins, Frank's love of the paranormal will soon be turned to terror.
Leedham was a town rich in urban legends, as well as a hotspot for cases involving missing people. After viewing the first tape Frank found himself standing at his living room window not knowing how he got there. The mysteries will only mount and the urban legends of Leedham and far beyond will soon be waiting for him right at his doorstep. From UFOs to men in black to four-legged goblins, Frank's love of the paranormal will soon be turned to terror.
313 pages, Paperback
Published March 10, 2023
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Jeff O'Brien
142 books181 followersI'm a bassist who writes books. Or a writer who plays bass. Depends on the day.
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April 11, 2023
This was an interesting read. It will leave you with more questions than answers but will entertain you the entire way.
October 28, 2025
I purchased my copy from the author. There's a whole world of independent horror authors, like Jeff, just waiting to flood your brain with stories. Support Independent and small press Horror authors. All views and opinions are my own.
Note: I read an updated edition of the October Twilight, with different cover art. If you have "the Green Cover" you'll know what I am referring to.
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Leedham, Massachusetts, where all the Men are lovable dorks, the women are geeky bombshells, and all the High Strangeness is immense, layered and seemingly endless. Somewhere on the great fictional road map of the USA, between Twin Peaks, Washington,, Lake Wobegon in Minnesotta, and Dairy, Maine, exists Leedham. If you're like myself, "The October Twilight" was not your first visit to this sprawling city that occupies a section of the mind of Jeff O'Brien. This volume certainly comes across as the closest we will get to a "Unified Field Theory of Leedham". Sex fueled drama, suspense, the daily struggles of deeply human characters, are tightly with a sudden and ever increasing brushes with the unknown. Even at the climax, the reader is still left with more questions than answers. Those things great and terrible, beyond our understanding, don't need (or could possibly have) a complete explanation. The October Tapes spools you along, like so much video tape pulled from its casing. A descriptive that kept popping into my head throughout this book was:
"If the X Files and The Lonegunmen, was a Dark Indie Romantic comedy". This is by no means a slight to Jeff's writing. Frankly I think it speaks to Jeff's ability to spin an entertaining yarn.
IF this is your first visit to Leedham, let me just say "Bravo! you jumped headfirst into the deep end!" You may come across certain legends, locations and manifestations of collective dread, that you will first encounter in this book, and later find it rear its head in other volumes. This is exactly what I mean when I refer to Jeff's Leedham books as delivering a strong does of weird, but never promising to put true name to or solve the myriad mysteries that seem to run the length and breadth of this fictional city. The October Twilight, will leave you pondering some of the larger things at play in this and some Jeff's other books, and by extension the the strange and unknown things documented that served as inspiration for these types of stories.
Note: I read an updated edition of the October Twilight, with different cover art. If you have "the Green Cover" you'll know what I am referring to.
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Leedham, Massachusetts, where all the Men are lovable dorks, the women are geeky bombshells, and all the High Strangeness is immense, layered and seemingly endless. Somewhere on the great fictional road map of the USA, between Twin Peaks, Washington,, Lake Wobegon in Minnesotta, and Dairy, Maine, exists Leedham. If you're like myself, "The October Twilight" was not your first visit to this sprawling city that occupies a section of the mind of Jeff O'Brien. This volume certainly comes across as the closest we will get to a "Unified Field Theory of Leedham". Sex fueled drama, suspense, the daily struggles of deeply human characters, are tightly with a sudden and ever increasing brushes with the unknown. Even at the climax, the reader is still left with more questions than answers. Those things great and terrible, beyond our understanding, don't need (or could possibly have) a complete explanation. The October Tapes spools you along, like so much video tape pulled from its casing. A descriptive that kept popping into my head throughout this book was:
"If the X Files and The Lonegunmen, was a Dark Indie Romantic comedy". This is by no means a slight to Jeff's writing. Frankly I think it speaks to Jeff's ability to spin an entertaining yarn.
IF this is your first visit to Leedham, let me just say "Bravo! you jumped headfirst into the deep end!" You may come across certain legends, locations and manifestations of collective dread, that you will first encounter in this book, and later find it rear its head in other volumes. This is exactly what I mean when I refer to Jeff's Leedham books as delivering a strong does of weird, but never promising to put true name to or solve the myriad mysteries that seem to run the length and breadth of this fictional city. The October Twilight, will leave you pondering some of the larger things at play in this and some Jeff's other books, and by extension the the strange and unknown things documented that served as inspiration for these types of stories.
March 27, 2023
This is the October Tapes omnibus. If you wanna know what I thought of them, my reviews of the individual stories are out there. Honestly, reading these books leaves you with the feeling that you’re in on a secret. Read them if you wanna be in on it.
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