title: A Halloween Reader: Poems, Stories, and Plays from Halloween Past
author:  Lesley Pratt Bannatyne 
description: The literature of Halloween began in a time when poets, playwrights, and storytellers told tales inspired by fear of fate, the unknown, and the inexplicable--stories about dead souls and otherworldly creatures who drifted through the dark only on Halloween, when the spirit world seemed close enough to touch. This sourcebook of Halloween lore spans British, Irish, Scottish, French, Canadian, and American literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, from Robert Burns, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce to Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft. Each of the poems, stories, and plays in this anthology provides a link to Halloween celebrations of the past. Treasures abound, such as a rare Halloween mention in a colonial American play and a French journalist's retelling of a night spent amongst the bones of a Breton charnel house. The "Hallowoddities" section includes witch-trial testimony, journal entries, and other spooky pieces related to Halloween.
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  # Halloween Between the Sheets
  
  
  ### A Reverse Harem Halloween Anthology of Scenes that get to the Point
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## L.A. Boruff
  
  
  ## Laura Greenwood
  
  
  ## Emma Dean
  
  
  ## Erica Andrews
  
  
  ## Quinn Arthurs
  
  
  ## Ellabee Andrews
  
  
  ## Lisa Street & Keira Blackwood
  
  
  ## Stacy Jones
  
  
  ## Bea Paige
  
  
  ## Lacey Carter Andersen
  
  
  ## Julia Clarke
  
  
  ## Skye MacKinnon
  
  
  ## Marissa Farrar
  
  
  ## Cecilia Randell
  
  
  ## Marie Robinson
  
  
  ## May Dawson
  
  
  ## Caia Daniels
  
  
  ## KT Strange
  
  
  ## Jaliza A. Burwell
  
  
  ## Steffanie Holmes
  
  
  ## Riley Walker
  
  
  ## R.M. Walker
  
  
  ## TL Reeve & Michele Ryan
  
  
  ## Rae Tina
  
  
  ## Joely Sue Burkhart
  
  
  ## Kristen Banet
  
  
  ## Tabitha Barret
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [L.A. Boruff: Literary Yours Bonus
  Scene](part0006.html#5N3C0-b8eea0d313ea4c75be714f71ebafdcea)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Laura Greenwood: Spells and
  Curses](part0007.html#6LJU0-b8eea0d313ea4c75be714f71ebafdcea)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Erica Andrews: Goddess of the
  Ball](part0008.html#7K4G0-b8eea