Samhain

By Lori R. Lopez

Daren Karl has an aversion to Halloween. When his sister asks him to take his nephew Trick-Or-Treating, he must overcome deep-rooted fears to survive a stressful night that becomes eerily familiar. The secrets of a murky past return to the surface to the point of rocking his entire existence. What is he willing to give up?

From the author of THE DARK MISTER SNARK, LEERY LANE, “3-Z”, “Monstrosities”, AN ILL WIND BLOWS and more, “Samhain” is another treat in the bag of Halloween goodies by Lori R. Lopez. Look for her horror collection UNHALLOWED containing this tale!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lori R. Lopez
• Release date: Nov 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310102622

Lori R. Lopez

Lori R. Lopez wears many hats as an Author and Speculative Poet of Horror, Fantasy, Suspense, Humor and more. She illustrates her books and has written songs, while being an Activist for animals and children. Growing up, Lori roamed graveyards and conducted funerals for dead birds, squirrels, insects and spiders. Her offbeat books include The Dark Mister Snark, Leery Lane, An Ill Wind Blows, Darkverse: The Shadow Hours, Odds & Ends, and The Fairy Fly. In 2023 Lori won Third Place in the Long Category for the SFPA Poetry Contest for "Wake Unto Death". Her Poetry Collection Darkverse was nominated for an Elgin Award and a Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards. Her poems "Crop Circles" and "Nocturnal Embers" were nominated for the Rhysling Award in 2020, "Social Graces" and "The Whistle Stop" in 2021, "Biting Sarcasm" in 2022, "The Whippoorwill" and "If Houses Could Talk" in 2023. Poems "The Maw" and "creatures of the macabre" received Editor's Choice Awards among other honors. Stories and verse have appeared in The Sirens Call, The Horror Zine, Space & Time, Spectral Realms, JOURN-E, Weirdbook, Bewildering Stories, Dreams & Nightmares, Impspired, Altered Reality, Aphelion, and anthologies such as California Screamin' (the Foreword Poem), HWA Poetry Showcases II, III, V, VI, and IX, Journals Of Horror, Grey Matter Monsters, Dead Harvest, Fearful Fathoms I, Terror Train I and II, Trickster's Treats #3, Speculations III (Weird Poets Society), and In Darkness We Play. A member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and Lewis Carroll Society Of North America. Visit the Fairy Fly Entertainment Website Lori shares with her two talented sons, and their YouTube Channel @FairyFly. They have a Folk Band called The Fairyflies.

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Samhain

by Lori R. Lopez

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The past returns to haunt and hunt him on one creepy All Hallows Eve.

Daren Karl has an aversion to Halloween. When his sister asks him to take his nephew Trick-Or-Treating, he must overcome deep-rooted fears to survive a stressful night that becomes eerily familiar. The secrets of a murky past return to the surface to the point of rocking his entire existence. What is he willing to give up?

From the author of The Dark Mister Snark, Leery Lane, 3-Z, Monstrosities, An Ill Wind Blows and more, Samhain is another treat in the bag of Halloween goodies by Lori R. Lopez.

It wasn’t always about the candy. Daren Karl feared October Thirty-First and couldn’t even be sure why, until his thirtieth All Hallows, which seemed closer to All Hellows in his opinion. Have you ever screamed so much you lost your tonsils? That was how it would feel before the night ended.

Darkness reached out and touched him.

Some people were afraid of clowns. It made more sense to be terrified of Halloween, didn’t it? He thought so, anyway, despite the reason being buried in the tomb of his past. But childhood had a way of rising up, emerging from a grainy muddled subconscious to stalk our nights and haunt our daydreams. He was having one of those spells, a vague twinge of foreboding as he rang the doorbell outside his sister’s house. No brats in costumes roamed the streets yet, thank heavens. A shiver coursed up his spine as if an evil musician raked a cold