Murder for Halloween: Tales of Suspense edited by Michele Slung and Roland Hartman

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Authors/Editors: Michele Slung and Roland Hartman
• Title: Murder for Halloween: Tales of Suspense
• Publisher: ‎ Castle Books (2007)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 362 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0785823190
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0785823193
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.65 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
• Book Condition: Used / Like New – Excellent
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent

Synopsis:

A suspenseful collection of tales combines ghoulish tricks and supernatural treats, featuring the work of Peter Straub, Marcia Muller, Peter Lovesey, James Grady, Leo Bruce, Ray Bradbury, Gahan Wilson, Robert Bloch, and more.

About the Authors/Editors:

Michele Slung is the kind of book nut who haunts thrift stores, scouts garage sales and believes that heaven is a giant second-hand bookstore. She is also the author of “Momilies” and “More Momilies,” both best-sellers; a former editor at The Washington Post Book World; and a one-time bookseller. She loves heroines, and believes that writers are often as interesting as the people they write about. In addition, Slung was among the early and avid fans of Great Britain’s Virago series of reissued fiction by forgotten or little-known women writers.

The combination has produced NAL’s Plume American Women Writers series, celebrating literature written by American women, and brought into existence under the editorial guidance of Michele Slung. Four years in the making, the series focuses on writers who may have been unjustly overlooked, those who were popular in their own eras but who have since been forgotten and the lesser-known works of well-established authors. The books will feature introductions by such well-known writers as Ursula K. LeGuin, Judith Martin and Mary Lee Settle. The series made its debut in October.

“Angel Island,” one of the first books in the series, is a feminist fantasy first published in 1914. In this book by Inez Haynes Gillmore, five men, shipwrecked on an island, are confronted by flying women. To the men’s dismay, they refuse to be tamed. “Pink and White Tyranny” (1871) is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s biting examination of the institution of marriage. In “The Prodigal Women” (1942), Nancy Hale allows three high-spirited women to explore the dynamics of Boston society.