Mr. November: A Halloween Ghost Story

A man confronts his darkest fears when he returns to his childhood hometown and to the house where his brother's life ended many years before.Mr. November is both a deceptively traditional ghost story and coming-of-age tale, but touches on far deeper and troubling themes. It is also a tribute to a favorite American pasttime.* * * * * * * * * * * * * *"There are all manner of hauntings: of places, of things, of people. There are hauntings of the mind, just as there are hauntings of the body and of the soul. But the worst sort of haunting is the kind which infects the spirit, entwines with it, subsumes it. The kind that cannot be easily exorcised. Not, at least, without first killing the host."* * * * * * * * * * * * * *Approximately 16,000 words (roughly 57 pages) For ages 14 and older.

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UNDEADUNLIVINGAND THE HORRORS IN BETWEEN.Eight terrifying tales of those who defied Deathand those who forgot how to live.

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This is a very technical story that would do justice to anything written by Michael Crichton. -- David Dalton (review from Golgotha)[T]the scene that will linger for me is the one of the empty car left running at the intersection. -- CJ (review from The Headhunter)[T]his is not your typical survivalist zombie story. It is a smart, funny, witty read - and the zombies certainly add to the humor and the irony! -- Glinda Harrison (review from Outsourced)One of my favorite sections in the book is when Emma remembers her father fondly: "I wish him back, even though he had been nothing but a presence in our lives, like a couch, or a radio. Nothing more. He was neither sadness nor happiness. He was simply a man, soft-spoken and fond of apples, who smelled of aftershave and leather and felt like sandpaper." -- CJ (review from The Object of her Obsession)The anonymity of the characters remains consistent throughout, making the haunting reality of the thoughts and feelings of "the man" far more disturbing. -- J. Bryden Lloyd (review from Nocturne)

About the Author

eFiction magazine calls Saul an author armed with "a PhD and a whacked out sense of humor." Saul spent his formative years in a leaky century-old house overlooking the Erie Canal in Upstate New York. His bedroom was a refurbished attic, which he shared with all manner of creatures, not all, he is convinced, flesh and blood.After bouncing around the US and Europe for several years, he settled down to pursue a career in the sciences, opting to study the mysteries of human molecular genetics. But even positions as an experimental biologist, teacher, manager and biotech entrepreneur couldn't keep him from his true passion as a storyteller.He now writes speculative fiction full time from his home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Although his house is now attic-less and waterproof, he continues to be haunted by a variety of creatures, including a wife, kids, four dogs, three cats, six chickens, a wayward rooster, and one very grumpy possum. They are all flesh and blood. Except, maybe, for the possum, which he's convinced is the reincarnated spirit of Jack Torrance.

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