Halloween at Glosser's
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It's Halloween 1970, and Erin Lewis can't draw anything scary enough to win the window painting contest at Glosser Bros. Department Store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The 16-year-old has other things on her mind, like holding a séance at Glosser's to contact her brother, who died a year ago in Vietnam. Will he keep his promise and make contact from the other side? Or will Erin receive an equally shocking message from closer to home? Either way, it will be a Halloween she'll never forget. Neither will the crowd at the annual Glosser Bros. Halloween Parade when she turns one of the floats into her own personal horror show. Don't miss this trip back in time to the glory days of the Glosser Bros. Department Store by Robert Jeschonek, award-winning author of LONG LIVE GLOSSER'S, CHRISTMAS AT GLOSSER'S, EASTER AT GLOSSER'S, and PENN TRAFFIC FOREVER. It's a blast from Halloween past, complete with window painting, the Shaffer twins, and a parade down Main Street...a spooky, nostalgic story for the whole family.
Robert Jeschonek
Robert Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, essays, articles, comic books, and podcasts have been published around the world. According to fantasy and science fiction luminary Mike Resnick, Robert "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview."Robert's young adult urban fantasy novel, MY FAVORITE BAND DOES NOT EXIST, is due in 2011 from Clarion Books, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A collection of his fantasy and science fiction stories, MAD SCIENTIST MEETS CANNIBAL, is available from PS Publishing in England. Robert has written for POSTSCRIPTS, ESCAPE POD, DRABBLECAST, SPACE AND TIME, PODCASTLE, DAW Books anthologies, and many other publications.His credits include STAR TREK fiction published by Pocket Books. His work appeared in three volumes of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, winning the grand prize in Volume VI. He was also nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His story "One Awake In All the World" was called out in a Publishers Weekly starred review of the anthology DESTINATION FUTURE in 2010.His comic book work has appeared in JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA 80-PAGE GIANT 2010 #1 from DC Comics. He has also scripted stories for various indie comics, including WAR from Saddle Tramp Press and DEAD BY DAWN QUARTERLY and COMMERCIAL SUICIDE in the UK.Jeschonek is based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His website, www.robertjeschonek.com, features fresh daily updates on the world of writing and other alternate realities.
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Halloween at Glosser's - Robert Jeschonek
Halloween at Glosser’s
A Johnstown Tale
Robert Jeschonek
Pie Press PublishingContents
Also by Robert Jeschonek
Halloween at Glosser's
About the Author
Glosser's Halloween Photo Gallery
Special Preview: Christmas at Glosser’s
HALLOWEEN AT GLOSSER'S
Copyright © 2020 by Robert Jeschonek
www.robertjeschonek.com
Cover Art Copyright © 2020 by Ben Baldwin
www.benbaldwin.co.uk
Photos Copyright © 2020 William Glosser
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Published in October 2015 by arrangement with the author. All rights reserved by the author.
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Also by Robert Jeschonek
A Glosser’s Christmas Love Story
Christmas at Glosser’s
Death by Polka
Easter at Glosser’s
Fear of Rain
Long Live Glosser’s
Penn Traffic Forever
Richland Mall Rules
Thanksgiving at Glosser’s
The Glory of Gable’s
The Masked Family
Valentine’s Day at Glosser’s
To Ruby Shaffer, for helping keep the magic alive.
Halloween at Glosser's
W hy not make the flower a meat-eater?
asked Mrs. Mulligan. "Give it some blood-drenched fangs. Maybe have a person's foot sticking out of its mouth. That would be scary, don't you think?"
Sixteen-year-old Erin Lewis just shrugged at the colorful picture she'd painted on the big front window of the Glosser Bros. Department Store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was supposed to be an entry in the 1970 Halloween window painting contest sponsored by Glosser's, but somehow, it just wasn't shaping up to be winner material.
Happy flowers and beaming butterflies didn't exactly shout Halloween.
Neither did the other elements of Erin's painting.
You need to do something about that sun up there, too.
Mrs. Mulligan pointed one thick finger at the big, smiling orb in the top right corner of the painting. Its bright yellow color was almost the same as the yellow sweater dress clinging to the art teacher's pudgy body. Instead of a smile, why not give it a gaping, jagged-toothed maw? Maybe give it some devil horns while you're at it, and some big, maniacal eyes.
Erin sighed and frowned. Her right