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Published: Oct. 23, 2011
Words: 13,840 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465788092
Short description
Flash fiction short stories are great for reading on mobile devices and when time is limited. Flash O' Lantern contains 13 strange, eerie flash fiction stories about spiders, snakes and shoes, haunted houses, trick-or-treating costumes gone bad, vampires, ghosts, zombies, aliens + more! 13 historical October horror events are also reviewed + author notes.Extended description
Flash O'Lantern contains 13 original award-winning Halloween flash fiction short stories of 1,000 words or less and 13 noteworthy events that happened in October including:Famous People in October:
Edgar Allan Poe (died), Bela Lugosi (born), Vincent Price (died) and two others!
Movies/TV released in October:
Halloween (1978), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Evil Dead and Saw (2004) and The Twilight Zone (1959)
Flash O'Lantern contains flash fiction and non-fiction that will illuminate your mind.
Tags
nonfiction, horror, halloween, occult, short stories, young adult, supernatural, zombie, teen, bedtime, haunted house, flash fiction, spooky, scary, thomas edison, snakes, pumpkin, 13, fiction short story, edgar allan poe, vincent price, campfire, trickortreatAvailable ebook reading formats
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Reviews
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Review by:
Jon Reisfeld
on Nov. 12, 2011 :
If you loved sitting around a campfire, as a kid, and spinning quick yarns to scare the 'bejeezus' out of your friends, then you'll really enjoy "Flash O'Lantern: 13+ Stories," a collection of flash fiction tales by horror writer/novelist Todd Russell.
"Flash O'Lantern" presents 13 Flash horror stories interspersed with Russell's own thematically-related commentaries about memorable October events and trivia. The stories deliver quick, light, entertaining reads, and the commentaries provide plenty of great water-cooler conversational grist. Together they make Flash O'Lantern particularly good reading for people on the go. Here are my four favorite flash fiction offerings from the book:
"Brush" is the creepy story of a homeless guy who, let's say, bites off more than he can chew, when he hijacks a kid's Halloween goody bag. ( I think the National Dental Association should purchase reprint rights to this one and distribute them in dental offices nationwide.)
"Graveyard Crazies" offers a fun, yet spooky, take on working the midnight (graveyard) shift in a supermarket. (Great atmospherics, and some well-done tension-relieving humor.)
"Remdee Gate" won me over immediately with the imaginative concept of the gate itself - an altogether new idea that I've never come across before in sci-fi/horror fantasy writing.
And finally, I found "Rachel's Number" to be a quick, but haunting, story.
(review of free book)