By Rick Hautala
4 OCTOBERS - a suite of Novellas
The days are becoming shorter, and the wind blows chilly from the north. After the maple and oak leaves flip from eco-friendly to vivid reds, golds, and oranges, they wither, fall, and die, clattering like previous bones as they blow down the road within the twilight. The solar isn't as vivid because it was, and the nights are darkish and chilly and lengthy. this is often the time of the harvest … the time of Hallowe'en … and a time for memories of the summer season simply previous and of alternative summers, now long past. this can be a time of poser and expectation because the earth prepares for the frigid onslaught of winter.
Four Octobers collects for the 1st time 4 loosely interconnected novellas from the vibrant mind's eye of best-selling writer Rick Hautala. each one tale is decided in October, the month of pumpkins and trick or deal with, of skeletons and haunted graveyards, and every tale is stuffed with nostalgia for occasions earlier … for summers and early life now long past … for percentages now not taken … for possibilities now misplaced forever.
"Tin Can Telephone," set in 1957, tells the tale of a tender boy and his good friend who, within the pre-dawn darkness whereas ready to determine the Russian satellite tv for pc Sputnik pace by way of overhead, adventure a secret and worry way more terrifying than the specter of Soviets in space.
"Miss Henry's Bottles," might be Hautala's top tale up to now, tells how the straightforward act of discarding empty soda bottles on a neighbor's garden brings to gentle secrets and techniques that are supposed to have remained buried … yet like several secrets and techniques, this one ultimately is printed with devastating consequences.
"Blood Ledge," set in an Indian summer time of 1971, tells the story of a tender boy who discovers a dismal relatives mystery that leads him to simply accept a relations inheritance that has frightening results.
And eventually, "Cold River" is the tale of a guy so misplaced in loneliness and melancholy following the dying of his spouse that he faces a horror worse … a lot worse than drowning within the chilly, darkish river that flows by way of his house.
Taken jointly, those tales exhibit Rick Hautala writing on the best of his online game, telling tales that may not basically relax you if you learn them, yet will go away you with an icy dread on your middle … a dread a lot less warm than any October wind blowing down the road at evening.
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The fool, he had scorned the final warning, scoffed at it. And there might not be another . . For the rest of the night she lay there just staring up at the ceiling, watching the latticed square of moonlight pale until finally it was replaced by the cold grey light of a mountain winter dawn. That scream—she could still hear it like a catchy tune that persistently sticks in the brain. She heard it again and again, a long-drawn-out cry of agony, the embodiment of every fear known to man or beast, the ultimate in terror.
Subsidence created potholes and cracked tarmacadam as though it was a subtle manoeuvre to return to its former surface of mud and stones. One shop, so insignificant among the grey stone cottages that it seemed to be trying to hide from strangers, and a church that would be undergoing structural repairs if ever the twenty-year-old restoration fund realised sufficient money. ' The Cat, tike everything else in Woodside had rejected progress. Picturesque inside and out it could have commanded trade from afar but Eli Lewis, its publican, was determined that that should not happen.
Peter watched them go, typical examples of motorbike hooligans. Hodre or Perrycroft—it was just the same. ' Janie was doing her best to scold Gavin but the impact of her remonstration was tempered by relief. She was trying hard not to cry. ' Gavin was trembling. 'Something's happened to him, I know it has. He's somewhere in thereV A shaking forefinger pointed to the forest. Even the morning sunlight could not dispel its aura of foreboding, its silent warning. ' Peter clutched at his shoulder and winced.
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