October Nights: 31 Tales of Hauntings and Halloween

by DeAnna Knippling

SPOOKY SHORT FICTION - PERFECT FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT!

Thirty-one short horror tales of ghosts, haunted houses, vampires black cats, mad science, weird plants, demons, zombies, and Halloween. From the surreal to the gory, surprise twists, black humor, bad puns, dark dreamlands, old myths, thrillers, chillers, and illers. Twilight Zone stories, dark fantasy stories, Black Mirror stories, and far-future dystopias.

Short & sweet…monsters & meat.

(For teens and up.)

115 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2017

About the author

DeAnna Knippling is a professional freelance writer, ghostwriter, and editor. She has a browser history full of murder, gore, and Victorian street maps. She writes across many genres, but has a soft spot for all things crime, horror, and gothic. Her latest book is the Gothic horror novel The House Without a Summer. You can find her in Colorado with her husband and daughter, on her website at www.WonderlandPress.com, or on Facebook.

Reviews

[Jonathan Snyder · Rating 5 out of 5]

This year I really did not get a chance to participate in any Halloween writing. Though not my favorite genre, I do enjoy writing a scary story. Still wanting to get my fix, I decided to try out Deanna Knippling's October Nights: 31 Tales of Hauntings and Halloween. Suffice to say, I was not disappointed.
Initially not sure what to expect with a collection of flash stories (any author knows they are hard to write), I found her style and presentation of these world snippets fascinating. They hover between just an idea for a future book to a quick peek at worlds and what they could become.
Personally, my favorite was Mummy and her presentation of what could have been a “yet-another-mummy-coming-to-destroy-anything” into something that, to me, felt real and possible. They leave enough having that you don’t know quite what is going on but you see something dreadful has happened.

Ms. Knippling continues to impress especially with her Blood in Space: The Icon Mutiny and Clockwork Alice. If you’re looking for short, simple, but enthralling tales while waiting for waiting in line for your prescription (which I have done), then look no further than this book.

[Bonnie Dale Keck · Rating 5 out of 5]

kindle unlimited, got asked if had read {and/or reviewed} this but although have read quite a few of her books, had not read this one {then}, and as come to expect from this writer {have read some of the 'Alice' and other ones}, odd, not really scary but then there is nothing on 2 legs, 4 legs, or no legs at all that scares me, but nice..well probably not the right word but interesting stories

Thirty-one horror tales of ghosts, haunted houses, vampires black cats, mad science, weird plants, demons, zombies, and Halloween. From the surreal to the gory, surprise twists, black humor, bad puns, dark dreamlands, old myths, thrillers, chillers, and illers. Twilight Zone stories, dark fantasy stories, Black Mirror stories, and far-future dystopias. Short & sweet…monsters & meat.

(For teens and up.)

[Leslie Wiederspan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a neat little collection of short horror stories. They were well written, but just way too short! I would love to see some of these made into longer novella or novels. Some were a bit confusing, as they were just too short. It would be nice to see the Vampire Lady and Trick or Treat made into a full novel. All in all, nice little stories, but not too much of horror for me.

[Carrie Blythe · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25 stars