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Reviewed by Samantha Gregory for Readers' Favorite
Autumn Harvest: A Celebration of Halloween and the Macabre by Mark Kasniak is a collection of spooky tales set around Halloween. Some friends spend the night near a train wreck and experience a night of terror, a demon which speaks through a radio, raising the dead, and more. There is a varied collection of stories here and a novella at the end of the book called The Pumpkin's Halloween. The stories were pretty good, overall. One called 4:17 was an amusing story, albeit a very short one. Not a monster story per se, more of an apocalypse story.
Mark Kasniak has produced a decent collection with Autumn Harvest: A Celebration of Halloween and the Macabre. As a fan of Halloween myself, I think this book could do well on the market. There was a good variety of monsters and spooks to keep me entertained, although I did not enjoy every story. The book, I felt, was a balance between being a YA book and an adult book. It didn’t really swing either way. If you are writing horror I would have liked it to have gone all out in the horror department. The language was definitely adult, though. Writing a short story and producing a gripping story is hard to do at times. I think most of the stories managed to do this.
