{"product_id":"rest-in-pieces-halloween-tales-flint-9798256272388","title":"Rest in Pieces. Halloween Tales of Horror: 18 Illustrated Ghost Stories to Read Aloud in the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEighteen Halloween tales of horror, each short enough to finish before the candle burns down, each one illustrated in full-page black-and-white ink.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man wakes in a freezing forest with no memory of how he got there, and the voice that answers his own telephone tells him where his body is lying. A bride hides inside an attic chest during a wedding game and is not found for years. A handyman pockets the two bronze coins laid on a dead woman's eyelids, and that night something comes to his door asking for them back. A student pulls the blanket off her sleeping roommate, and the humming does not stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is inside\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eEighteen complete stories\u003c\/strong\u003e - ghosts, revenants and cursed objects, a haunted mirror, a ghost ship off the Irish coast, a spectral wolf, a marionette with glass eyes, a creature that crawls back to its burial vault, and a Mass said for the dead by the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eThirty-eight full-page ink illustrations\u003c\/strong\u003e in black and white, roughly two for every story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eEight quotation interludes\u003c\/strong\u003e from Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Brault.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eA nineteenth tale\u003c\/strong\u003e waiting past the last entry in the contents, where nobody thought to list it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOld legends, told in full.\u003c\/strong\u003e Much of this collection comes out of the campfire and urban-legend tradition, and each tale is given room to breathe instead of being squeezed onto a single page: the bride sealed in the chest in \u003cem\u003eGone Without a Veil\u003c\/em\u003e, the spirit that returns for what was buried with it in \u003cem\u003eEyes on You, Always\u003c\/em\u003e, the woman who wakes under a grave robber's knife in \u003cem\u003eBuried but not Gone\u003c\/em\u003e, the voice climbing the stairs one step at a time in \u003cem\u003eVoices in the Walls\u003c\/em\u003e, the passenger still riding the last train in \u003cem\u003eThe Final Stop\u003c\/em\u003e. Others are new inventions - \u003cem\u003eManor of Mayhem\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHowl at Elric\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWaves of Woe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStrings Attached\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReflection of Fear\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMass of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDare you Enter?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho it is for.\u003c\/strong\u003e Readers who want a whole scare in five minutes rather than four hundred pages, and anyone who reads aloud. The prologue is written for exactly that: gather your friends, light the candles, and begin. Stories run four to six pages including their illustrations, which makes the collection easy to dip into and friendly to readers who bounce off long books. Suited to teen and adult readers - the horror is atmospheric and folkloric, with moments of genuine gruesomeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpooky season, October 31.\u003c\/strong\u003e A collection built for Halloween displays and seasonal tables, for campfire nights, sleepovers and autumn read-aloud sessions, and as a gift for readers of ghost stories, folk horror and classic scary tales. Published in paperback and hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Flint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256272388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mountain Mill Editorial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Flint","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50593699135743,"sku":"9798256272388","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rest-in-pieces-halloween-tales-flint-9798256272388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}