Every Day is Halloween: The Last Rites Edition
About this ebook
forcing the Living to wear costumes. . .
Every. Single. Day.
Fifteen-year-old Esther is comfortably hiding behind her skull mask and black robe, even though her friends are fed up with all the ghouls and ghosts telling them how to live. When her best friend vanishes, Esther still clings to her costume. Dressed as Death, will she uncover what happened to her bestie? And will she ever find the courage to step out of her comfort zone before fading into a mere shadow of herself?
Mask up. . . or risk being seen.
Every Day is Halloween is an eerie, quirky modern paranormal tale with moments of horrific gruesomeness and humour. Written in both traditional and epistolary storytelling (newspaper articles, emails, podcast transcripts, even a comic strip), Kit Daven’s lyrical, visceral, sometimes quirky prose creates an unsettling world where the line between the living and the dead blurs. Blending moments of body horror with suspense and psychological thrills, she provides an opportunity for readers to reflect on what it means to be really seen, alive or dead.
About the author
Kit Daven’s heart beats for the eerie and the extraordinary in her tales. Her sci fantasy series, A Xiinisi Trilogy (The Forgotten Gemstone, The Other Castle, and The Starry Rise), possesses demonly threads running through the epic trans-dimensional landscape.
In the novella, The Arrest in Mannequin Row, she steps out of the fantasy realm into an urban one, where the living and dead collide in a town beneath the lake waters. Watch out for the spider that never dies in Spider Spun and the supernatural senior in the dystopian story The Cannibal’s Handbook.
In high school, Kit wore a hooded robe to every Halloween dance. Nowadays, she prefers to celebrate Halloween carving pumpkins and watching horror movies with her husband and her feline familiars amidst the quiet hills of Hespeler, Ontario.
