Meeting and talking to people is one of the aspects of writing I like best. So many good great people. So many good stories. I was talking to Larry Rodness a few weeks ago and he told me this back story for October 32nd. I had him write it down for me, 'I’d written “October 32” after visiting the small country village of Elora, Ontario during their annual Halloween festival. It features giant paper monsters coming out of buildings, carnival games, and treats in their town square. I originally wrote it [October 32nd] as a screenplay and several years later turned it into a novel. But I needed a way into the story. Because I had experience in the funeral insurance business I created the main character, Alexander Malefant, who comes to town on a sale- call on Halloween eve and bears witness to all the children in the town going missing while Trick or Treating. The story spun out from there.' Excellent. When you read October 32nd, it's not so much a horror story as one might guess, but a story of redemption. And when you're emersed in the small New England town on All Hollows Eve, imagine that Larry Rodness himself is in the crowd of revelers, right over there next to the old, dilapidated school house. A Hloloween Back Story.
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