Publisher's Synopsis
The thing I like best about Halloween is not the candy (I'd just get fat), the pumpkin carving (really, I'd end up with a pumpkin that would more likely resemble a deformed bowling ball rather than a face), or the weather (I hate rain!), but the stories. Even though I'm not very good at watching horror movies - I just end up with a pillow in front of my face while still jumping from the sounds emanating from the television - I love reading scary books. I really enjoy diving into a world where some strange, unknown, malignant creature is lurking, and to find out it's slowly killing people. It just makes me want to continue reading, even though I know I'll be jumping at shadows for the next couple of nights.That's it. You've started with the characters, both good and evil, added the setting, the atmosphere, you've thought about the language, your style, the perspective, you know how the story is going to end... I think you're done! Read it through, make it scarier (or less so, if you've just found out you can't bear reading your own story), add a storm here, insert a spider web there, and you're done! The most important, but in a way also the easiest, question that remains to be asked is: would you mind having other people read it? If the answer is yes, then you know you're done. It may be scary, but all creative work is, in a way.
