The Kindred (A short story)

Three nights past the full moon, and one night before All Saints Day, the membrane between this world and the netherworld will be thinner than it has been in more than five thousand years. It will be a rare opportunity for the kindred to find a weakness and come rushing through. They have been waiting, biding their time, and they will not waste this chance.Heather and her friend Matt have gone out Trick-or Treating, but the Kindred are coming.Halloween will never be the same again.“Mark Edward Hall creates his own myth for Halloween and names an unlikely hero.” —Stacey Turner, Editor in Chief at Angelic Knight Press“Mark Edward Hall writes like a master. Stephen King, yes, but also like Stoker, Poe, and Bradbury, yeah, even Shakespeare...all those good guys we’ve forgotten. His prose is hypnotic and seductive, visceral, and edgy. He’s the real thing.” —Kiana Davenport, New York Times Bestselling Author of Cannibal Nights and House of Skin “Hall has an uncanny knack for blending vivid, almost poetic prose with visceral images of jaw-dropping horror to great effect.” —Bram Stoker Award Winning Editor, Vince Liaguno “Poetic and eerily seductive, Hall pushes you to the edge, until you get lost in the beautiful madness of his creations.” —Midwest Book Review“Hall is rapidly climbing the ladder to stake a claim as one of the dark fiction elite.” —Morpheus TalesMark Edward Hall is the author of five books and more than fifty short stories. His new novel, Apocalypse Island is due out in early 2012.

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