When Harvey Kinkle gets an invitation, he's told he can bring one witch -- and what better witch to party with than Sabrina? But even Salem, the master of dastardly tricks, can't figure this one out; so Sabrina agrees to accompany Harvey. After all, she can't let him go alone to the Other Realm.
In true Other Realm form, this is no ordinary Halloween party. The mysterious host is nowhere to be found, and the motley crew of partygoers is disappearing one by one. Sabrina doesn't know who would ruin a witch's favorite day, but she's determined to get to the bottom of this mystery...before she's the last witch standing.
Paul Ruditis also writes under the name P.J. Ruditis.
I was born and raised in Philadelphia where I lived a typical childhood with a far more interesting fantasy life. I mean, how many other eight year olds were sticking their Star Wars action figures in Ziploc bags filled with water and putting them in the freezer to recreate the ice planet of Hoth? (Really? That many? Never mind.)
After college, I moved to Los Angeles and was very lucky to get a job as a page at Paramount Pictures only months after I got into town. I worked as a tour guide and usher, and I performed temp office work around the lot. Eventually, I took a position working in the studio's licensing department where I quickly worked my way up to middle management.
After a while, one of my friends in the publishing industry offered me the opportunity to write a Buffy, The Vampire Slayer short story for a collection she was editing. Well, when I heard how little money I could make as a writer, I immediately quit my job to try it full time. (Stupid, I know, but it kind of worked for me.)
I started out by writing books based on such wonderful TV shows as Star Trek, Roswell, and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. I have since written over 30 books based some of the best shows on TV, adding The West Wing, Alias, and Prison Break to that ever growing list.
While I continue to work on these media tie-ins, I have also been focused more on my own original fiction, including my teen series DRAMA! and the Simon Pulse Romantic Comedy Love, Hollywood Style.
I've read this book almost every Halloween since I was about 11. Part of which, certainly, is that it's simply become a yearly tradition. But it's also a very good entry in the Sabrina series. It's a legitimate mystery, inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (f.k.a. Ten Little Indians), though one with a dearth of meaningful clues. That makes for a good combination with the spooky setting.
The dialogue sometimes is out of character, particularly for Zelda, and there are typos aplenty, including an entire half of a sentence somehow moved a paragraph above where it should be. But I still enjoy it for the cheap tie-in it is.