Shenanigan Report - Nothing But Treats
It's almost trick-or-treat time, but you can save your tricks. I got a whole newlsetter full of treats here. So... this one's going to be a little different.
GREETINGS, STORY LOVERS!
Fáilte! Oíche Shamhna Shona!
(Fahlcheh! EE HOWnah shOHna!)
Welcome! Happy Halloween!
FIRST OFF: If you either post or email me with "Trick or treat" or "Cleas nó cóir!" (clahss noh khoureh [very slight eh at the end of cóir!]), I'll send you a very special treat.
Schedule Correction!
Reading as a Contact Sport is Nov. 7. Sorry for the confusion. I'm not scheduling things for Sundays anymore.
Story Time!
Story 2 - A different kind of haunted house story for subscribers to the Shenanigan Report! If you got this in your email, that means you!
The Courtship of Halloween Jill - A novelette that takes place shortly after Halloween Jack and the Devil's Gate and will be included in the hardback edition of that book.
THE LEGEND OF JACK!
Many of you who have joined up with the Gallowglas Army at conventions have never seen my live storytelling. Well... Here you go. Follow the link to a sooper secret private video performance of me telling an ancient Irish legend in an Irish pub.
AAAAAND... In case you missed it in the last Senanigan Report...
Since it's that time of year again, I have an offer for anyone who subscribes to the Gallowglas Army site. Anyone who subscribes at any level will get the ebook of Halloween Jack and the Devil's Gate as a thank you... UNLESS... you sign up for a yearly subscription! Then, you get ALL THREE! BUT WAIT!!! Anyone who subscribes at Marine rank or higher will get a zombie tree (print edition) format of book one. If you choose a yearly subscription at Marine rank or higher, you'll get all three.
10 Great Spooky Season Books
Okay, maybe I should have given you this list at the beginning of the month, but... better late than never.
- A Night in the Lonesome October - Rodger Zelazny
- Anno Dracula - Kim Newman
- Those Who Hunt the Night - Barbara Hambly
- Sunglasses After Dark - by Nancy A. Collins
- Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
- In a Gilded Light - Jennifer Brozek
- Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
- Mullengro - Charles DeLint
- I Am Not a Serial Killer - Dan Wells
- Many Restless Concerns - Gayle Brandies
Sacrifice
The thing came at us. Out of the closet. Why is it always in the closet? The thing. Coming for us. Wife screams. I vomit. It makes some sound like radio static chewing on curdled milk. Gets stuck in my ears. That sound. Can’t hear my wife. See her. Feel her hand on my wrist. Pulling. Wife is pulling me away. Sound in my ears makes my head a doldrum of banality. Wife yanks. Hard. Pulls me away from that cottage cheese in the sun sound making moistness of my eardrums. Further I get, less my mind lingers in the moment of midnight staring into a refrigerator unable to choose or walk away. “Gun case!” Wife’s screaming words tsunami a linebacker crunching past the mayonnaise malaise. Scrambling. Bouncing off walls and around corners. We had gone to the shooting range. Pistol in the gun case. One bullet left. Our silly self-defense superstition. Keeping one bullet should mean we’ll never have to use it. Right? The thing’s slithering sounds slide back into my ears. One bullet. I feel the impossibility of its undulating form like being slathered in chewing tobacco spit being licked up by cockroaches scuttling across my skin in the same way I smell and taste its sounds through my skin. Load the one bullet. Become Lin Alexander Manuel Hamilton Miranda with this shot. Wife whimpering. On her knees, gibbering and salivating. My mind widdershins. Careful aim. At her forehead. One has to suffer whatever this thing wants. Won’t be her.
