HORROR AND BIZARRO LITERATURE. Article: Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season. A Book Review.

Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season. A Book Review.

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This is a short short collection by author Norman Partridge. It contains both fiction and non-fiction content all based around the Halloween season.

The writer does a very clever and unique thing with this collection as he recalls his childhood, growing up with the classic monsters of the time e.g Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman etc also including the old creepy comic books popular back then and how he and his friends used to enjoy the Halloween season. From these golden memories he flips it to the the Halloween year when the real bogeyman came out to play; The Zodiac Killer. It's a very interesting insight into how a childs mind processes the imaginary dangers against the very real dangers that nowadays seem run-of-the-mill and how his parents and the rest of the adults in the community reacted against it.

As good as the little tales of his childhood are, the fiction stories are also quite excellent. None are too long or too short, all brimming with superbly creepy ambiance and twisted plots and characters. In my opinion the best story is the very last one ( of the seven tales included). A nasty little tale of a small towns weird yearly ritual that ends in bloodbath city.

In conclusion, if you want a great little collection of tales that are well written and will stay with you long after the last page then you could go much worse than this book. My only complaint is that there was not more of it.
Thank you for reading. Feel free to leave comments or questions.

jester616 This sounds really interesting. As usual, the local library doesn't carry it.

disturbian Hey Jester, I know that getting some of the books reviewed can be quite difficult. I can only refer you to amazon where if you have an e-reader you can get this book quite cheaply and sometimes if you're lucky you can get some second hand copies for a bargain. I'll have a search around the internet for any other sources for this and other books. if I find anything I will put up a link on this page. Thanks you for your comment.

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