{"product_id":"2940012846228","title":"Four Octobers","description":"Four Octobers\u003cbr\u003eby Rick Hautala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe days are getting shorter, and the wind blows cold from the north. After\u003cbr\u003ethe maple and oak leaves turn from green to bright reds, golds, and oranges,\u003cbr\u003ethey wither, fall, and die, clattering like old bones as they blow down the\u003cbr\u003estreet in the twilight. The sun isn't as bright as it used to be, and the\u003cbr\u003enights are dark and cold and long. This is the time of the harvest the\u003cbr\u003etime of Hallowe'en and a time for reminiscences of the summer just past\u003cbr\u003eand of other summers, now long gone. This is a time of mystery and\u003cbr\u003eexpectation as the earth prepares for the frigid onslaught of winter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour Octobers collects for the first time four loosely interconnected\u003cbr\u003enovellas from the vivid imagination of best-selling author Rick Hautala.\u003cbr\u003eEach story is set in October, the month of pumpkins and trick or treat, of\u003cbr\u003eskeletons and haunted graveyards, and each story is filled with nostalgia\u003cbr\u003efor times past Š for summers and youth now gone for chances not taken\u003cbr\u003efor opportunities now lost forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tin Can Telephone,\" set in 1957, tells the story of a young boy and his\u003cbr\u003efriend who, in the pre-dawn darkness while waiting to see the Russian\u003cbr\u003esatellite Sputnik speed by overhead, experience a mystery and fear far more\u003cbr\u003eterrifying than the threat of Soviets in space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Miss Henry's Bottles,\" perhaps Hautala's best story to date, tells how the\u003cbr\u003esimple act of discarding two empty soda bottles on a neighbor's lawn brings\u003cbr\u003eto light secrets that should have remained buried but like all secrets,\u003cbr\u003ethis one eventually is revealed with devastating consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blood Ledge,\" set in an Indian Summer of 1971, tells the tale of a young\u003cbr\u003eboy who discovers a dark family secret that leads him to accept a family\u003cbr\u003einheritance that has horrifying results.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd finally, \"Cold River\" is the story of a man so lost in loneliness and\u003cbr\u003edepression following the death of his wife that he faces a horror worse\u003cbr\u003emuch worse than drowning in the cold, dark river that flows by his house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, these stories show Rick Hautala writing at the top of his\u003cbr\u003egame, telling stories that will not only chill you when you read them, but\u003cbr\u003ewill leave you with an icy dread in your heart a dread much colder than\u003cbr\u003eany October wind blowing down the street at night.","brand":"Cemetery Dance Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182152040688,"sku":"2940012846228","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012846228_p0.jpg?v=1763573488","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012846228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}