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Reviewed by Carol Thompson for Readers' Favorite
Midnights in October: Eerie Nightly Escapes by Patricia Bossano is a haunting literary collection for those readers who cherish October’s mysterious allure. Each entry, precisely fifty-five words, is brief yet impactful. Designed as a “diary of nightly escapes,” the book blends real October observations with fictional vignettes, transforming the calendar into a spectral stage. Every page is a self-contained story that also melds into a broader atmospheric narrative. A warbler dispatches karmic justice on October 1, a fae trades innocence for peril on October 3, and a crow guards a fading firefly on October 4. These are not merely glimpses of the macabre; they are incantations, spells that linger at the edges of perception. The book concludes with a poetic Halloween entry as a final tangerine haze and a call to beware the glowing embers. Bossano then breaks the fourth wall with a note encouraging readers to craft their own stories using a word list of October’s spectral vocabulary.
Patricia Bossano’s language is poetic and tightly coiled. She combines folkloric figures, witchcraft rituals, political ghosts, and personal hauntings, often using a single turn of phrase to transform the ordinary into something suspenseful. Themes of power, revenge, love, memory, and transformation run through the thirty-one entries with impressive restraint. Midnights in October isn’t meant to be devoured in one sitting. It is best read as intended: night by night. Fans of gothic and supernatural fiction who enjoy the eerie elegance of Neil Gaiman or the poetic brevity of Edgar Allan Poe will be drawn to this collection’s haunting rhythm. Readers who relish atmospheric storytelling, dark folklore, and witchy October moods will find these nightly vignettes very enjoyable.
