Cirrus@Austlit

'Midnight Masquerade, a collection of Greg Chapman’s acclaimed and original fiction:

'Clown-for-hire, Harvey has the worst day of his life

'A childhood display of malice is resurrected thirty years later

'A priest finds true faith means devotion to blood and pain

'Revenge shows Emma what lies beneath her mask of fear

'A Halloween expert unleashes her own personal hell

'In these stories, you’ll discover how the masks we all wear hide our innermost fears, and how our choices can expose true horrors. Also included are Chapman’s acclaimed novellas, The Last Night of October and Vaudeville, and the short stories, Octoberville and Left on October Lane.'

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'Death looks upon the Earth to find no one celebrates Halloween anymore.'

Source: Back-cover blurb.

'A group of demon children go Trick or Treating in Hell, meeting some of humanity's worst along the way.'

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'When Tom Crane crashes his car into a tree he heads to the nearest town, only to find that Octoberville has a very unhealthy obsession with Halloween.'

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'A young woman discovers the death of her twin sister was not suicide, but something much more sinister.'

Source: Back cover blurb.

'Five short Halloween themed tales by Australian Shadows Award finalist, Greg Chapman'.

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Eight stories, an essay and artwork by two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Greg Chapman.'

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'Thomas is no ordinary man. To live, he must devour human flesh. His habitual existence is one of killing and feeding and taking on the physical characteristics of his victims. Thomas tries to fit in with the rest of humanity, but when his beautiful neighbor, Stephanie deceives him and turns out to be a monster just like him, he decides to discover his heritage and take revenge. Little does he know that there are many other “Fleshers” out there hiding in the shadows of the world and they are at war with each other.'

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'A small-town secret unearths itself, a stone drives a madman onto the streets of Whitechapel, a man takes a new wife – and the ghost of her mother, a photo album sends a grieving man into a spiral of nightmares, a creature collects the last words of death-row inmates, an insomniac fights nocturnal evils, unaware of the evil within, and a widow has one final embrace with his long lost love...'

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'Jessica Newman's tragic childhood has come back to haunt her. Her father, a Catholic deacon she hasn't seen since he was found not guilty of her mother's death during an exorcism ritual, has turned up dead in Scotland, with a wound to the head. Forced to take her family to Scotland and deal with her father's estate — a derelict mansion in the Grampian Ranges. Jessica begins to question her mother's death and the role her father played in it. The house and its dark basement — could provide more answers than she bargained for.'

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'David Brewer is trying to keep his family alive in a world torn asunder by a biblical apocalypse. Yet there is salvation, in the guise of a stranger who offers survivors sanctuary. All David and his family have to do is declare their faith in God's final, and bloody, plan.'

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'No one in Willow Street pays it any notice, not the disgruntled Campbell family next door, not Alice Cowley and her suicidal daughter, or Mr. and Mrs. Markham down the road. Not even Darryl, the loner at number seventy, who is abnormal himself, thinks much about it. It is just the old Kemper House, forgotten and abandoned.

'Until it makes itself known.

'When the stench of death wafts from Kemper House through Willow Street, and comes to the attention of recent resident and newspaper reporter, Ben Traynor, it starts a chain of horrors that brings Kemper House's curse into their own homes and leads others direct to its door. Kemper House not only haunts its neighbours, it infects them with an evil that traverses time and reality itself.'

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