A good scary & creepy story but was really disappointed & confused with the ending. Started with the flair of Stephen King bust slid downhill at the end.

If you like horror. If you like gore. If you like suspense.
Then this is the short book for you. Recommend it to all.

Great book! Looking forward to reading more by this author! Highly recommend!

This was an interesting book, great for halloween, or anyone looking for a good thrill! Personally for me my heart beat a little faster! It scared me to the point i had to stop reading at one point ! Throughout the book you learn about the family, and the neighbors in the community. Weird things begin to happen and you can't help but wonder is this community really haunted? When i got toward the ending, when the real suspense began and the madness of Halloween fun begins, i was shocked by what i was reading yet i couldn't put it down! The ending though i found to be a bit confusing, a community of people killed, children missing presumed dead, and a father in an asylum. His comment at the end had me thinking... did he plan this since his childhood? Did he do this to his parents, because their is no mention of his parents throughout the book, so the comment threw me at the end. I think i understand what happened but wish it was a little more clear about why he did this or why the children? Overall though i did enjoy the book and would like to read it again once published in June.

Norman Prentiss and Brian James Freeman wrote what may be my favorite Halloween story ever. I first read it in 2015 when Norm agreed to his first interview for this blog. When I saw that Hydra was going to release it on kindle, I found I needed to help spread the word!

What’s going on inside the gated community apartments? Nothing, if management has its way. No parties, no decorations and certainly no trick or treating. The annual potluck is canceled. It’s to be just another night.

But at the apartment belonging to handyman Harris and his family something strange is happening. Harris’ wife is keeping a journal for a marriage counselor that only she is seeing. And that’s just the beginning…

Prentiss and Freeman write flawlessly attesting to their skill and professionalism. They weave their words together as if they had always written together and this reader hopes they will continue to publish stories together. What a treat THE HALLOWEEN CHILDREN was. Originally published in October 2014 by Earthling Publications in a limited run of 500 signed copies, available on kindle from Hydra in June 2017.

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Review of THE HALLOWEEN CHILDREN
by Brian James Freeman Norman Prentiss

THE HALLOWEEN CHILDREN is a terrifying horror story which I couldn't set aside till I finished (and then couldn't get out of my imagination). Set in a quiet Maryland apartment complex, not far from a University campus, the focus of the story is a small family: Harris, Lynn, and their two children Amber and Matthew. Harris is the complex maintenance supervisor, with little to do because most of the work is contracted out to professionals. Lynn is a telecommuter, working in computer customer service from home. The “face” of the complex is a “little Napoleon” named Shawna, who rules rigidly and indiscriminately. Some of the residents are real terrors, in the human sense, and there are multiple layers of “reality” involved as well. Overarching this plot line of marital conflict, overprecocious offspring who might be both too imaginative and lacking in moral code, and Harris' own perceptions (which may or may not be “reality) is the approaching Halloween holiday. In conjunction is the theme of “the Halloween children,” as we come to find out, distinctly something (or someones) to be avoided.

Lots of violence and gore abound, but I'd be hard put to discern which is scarier: the “monsters” (if they exist) or the human evil. Unforgettable novel.

Quick read, some scary moments. Makes you look at Halloween at apartment complexes in a different light. Different twist on Halloween from an adult point of view. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the advanced copy in return for my honest review.