Past The Patch

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This is not a collection of horror stories, but a collection of Halloween stories - there’s a difference. Now, given the nature of the holiday, you’re going to find a great deal of horror crammed within a number of these tales, but not all of them. That was never the purpose of this anthology, simply another genre collection, but an attempt for authors of various styles to all throw their talents at one theme.

I’m quite pleased with the result.

As an author and reader, I’ve consumed quite a bit of material by now in my mid-thirties. While my tastes run wild and varied, it has been the anthologies by the likes of John Joseph Adams, Al Sarrantonio and (of course) Harlan Ellison that have always stood out to me. Why? Because they know how to capture a concept as editors, they know how to see the forest for the trees. If I’ve pulled together even a fraction of that dark magic inside here, I’ll feel successful.

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