By Rick Hautala
4 OCTOBERS - a set of Novellas
The days have become shorter, and the wind blows chilly from the north. After the maple and oak leaves flip from eco-friendly to vivid reds, golds, and oranges, they wither, fall, and die, clattering like outdated bones as they blow down the road within the twilight. The solar isn't as vivid because it was, and the nights are darkish and chilly and lengthy. this can be the time of the harvest … the time of Hallowe'en … and a time for recollections of the summer time simply earlier and of alternative summers, now gone. it is a time of puzzle and expectation because the earth prepares for the frigid onslaught of winter.
Four Octobers collects for the 1st time 4 loosely interconnected novellas from the vibrant mind's eye of best-selling writer Rick Hautala. every one tale is decided in October, the month of pumpkins and trick or deal with, of skeletons and haunted graveyards, and every tale is stuffed with nostalgia for occasions previous … for summers and formative years now long gone … for percentages now not taken … for possibilities now misplaced forever.
"Tin Can Telephone," set in 1957, tells the tale of a tender boy and his buddy who, within the pre-dawn darkness whereas ready to work out the Russian satellite tv for pc Sputnik velocity by means of overhead, event a secret and worry way more terrifying than the specter of Soviets in space.
"Miss Henry's Bottles," possibly Hautala's most sensible tale thus far, tells how the easy act of discarding empty soda bottles on a neighbor's garden brings to mild secrets and techniques that are meant to have remained buried … yet like every secrets and techniques, this one ultimately is published with devastating consequences.
"Blood Ledge," set in an Indian summer season of 1971, tells the story of a tender boy who discovers a dismal kin mystery that leads him to simply accept a kin inheritance that has scary results.
And eventually, "Cold River" is the tale of a guy so misplaced in loneliness and melancholy following the dying of his spouse that he faces a horror worse … a lot worse than drowning within the chilly, darkish river that flows via his house.
Taken jointly, those tales convey Rick Hautala writing on the most sensible of his online game, telling tales that may not in basic terms kick back you for those who learn them, yet will depart you with an icy dread on your middle … a dread a lot chillier than any October wind blowing down the road at evening.
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I saw him. ” “You’re drunk now, Gregor,” Zebhoim said. “So are you,” Gregor shot back. ” “You’re a little blurry,” Zebhoim replied, winking. “Maybe so, but I wasn’t drunk that night. He was seven feet tall and had long, shaggy blonde hair. ” “Yes, the teeth,” Boro said, laughing. ” “They were like needles,” Gregor insisted. “And he came at me real fast, I almost didn’t see him. ” The serving girl brought the wine, and Gregor drank deeply of his cup before he continued. “The strangest part was when he spoke to me.
David McAfee August 14, 2011 Prologue She enjoyed this part the most. The part where they started to scream. It didn’t matter how old or how strong they were, when she started to work her particular brand of magic, they all screamed. Even the tough ones; the ones who thought they could hold out and be strong. The ones who thought they were stronger than she was. Those types usually screamed loudest of all. Of course, that could be because she was harder on them than the ones who cooperated, but it didn’t matter.
She asked. “They don’t even know you are here. When you failed to report to the Council this evening, how much time do you think they wasted looking for you? None, I’ll wager. You are nothing to them, Agnor. Nothing. They will replace you without a moment’s thought on where you might be. That bastard Herris has probably already seen to it. You owe him nothing, and The Father even less. Why suffer longer than you must? Tell me what I need to know. Where is Ramah? ” Agnor quieted and turned to look at her.