October Nights: Thirty One Tales For The Halloween Season

With the publishing of ‘October Nights,’ a great void has been filled.

Sure, we all loved creepy Halloween stories like ‘The Tale Of The Golden Arm’ and the short story collections such as ‘Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark,’ when we were kids, but once we reached the age of majority, collections such as these, written on an adult level, simply did not exist.

Until now!

Acclaimed author Kevin E Lake has filled this void that’s existed for far too long. With ‘October Nights,’ Lake gives us, as adults, thirty-one original spine-tingling tales that will give us that feeling one only gets in October, when the leaves have changed, and jack o'lanterns begin popping up on porches and in yards all across America, and when the summer’s heat has exited the room and the crisp, fall air has taken its place.

That magical feeling makes us believe that there may be something out there in the dark that we cannot see. Perhaps our old houses in which people have passed on to the other side, whether we are aware of it or not, really are haunted. All those things we hear a going bump in the night might not simply be the roof cooling off from the day’s heat, and popping, or the old wooden frames adjusting and settling with age. ‘October Nights’ provides us with one well-written, terrifying tale for each night of the month of October.

The only challenge the book presents is in the fact that its readers may not be able to help themselves to just one tale each night, rather, they may find themselves being far too tempted to blow through the entire work in one setting, because ‘October Nights’ is just that damn good!

Just as Charles Dickens will always be remembered as the man who invented Christmas, due to his classic tale ‘A Christmas Carol,’ Kevin E Lake, with the publishing of ‘October Nights,’ will forever be remembered as the man who invented Halloween.