The world's oldest celebration comes to life in The End of Summer: Thirteen Tales of Halloween an anthology that honors the darkest and strangest night of the year. Each story is designed to be intrinsically and intimately about Halloween-its traditions its myths and its effects-and they run the gamut from horrifying to heartbreaking. Halloween night is the tapestry through which a haunted house a monstrous child a late-night drive to a mysterious destination and other tales are weaved. Demons are faced death is defied and love is tested. And not everyone makes it out alive. The End of Summer has arrived.