title: Eerie Elegance: How To Host A Haunt And Other Fabulous Frights
author:  Britta Peterson 
description: Eerie Elegance is Britta's first book after over a decade of self-publishing her website Britta Blvd, where she is known as the "Webmistress of the Dark." Always artistic and crafty from a young age, over the years she has turned holidays into opportunities for elaborate parties as performance art, transforming her home into an entirely new environment, especially for Halloween.
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  THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNDEAD
  
  Kim Harrison
  
  
  
  
  
  One
  
    
  
  I hitched the canvas strap holding the watering canister higher up on my
  shoulder and stretched to get the nozzle into the hanging plant. Sunlight
  streamed in, warm through my blue institutional jumpsuit. Past the narrow
  plate-glass windows was a small courtyard surrounded by VIP offices. Squinting
  from the sun, I squeezed the handle of the watering hose, and the barest hint
  of water hissed through.
  
    
  
  There was a burst of clattering computer keys, and I moved to the next plant
  down. Phone conversation filtered in from the office past the reception desk,
  accompanied by a belly laugh that sounded like the bark of a dog. Weres. The
  higher up in the pack they were, the more human looking they managed, but you
  could always tell when they laughed.
  
    
  
  I glanced down the row of hanging plants before the windows to the
  freestanding fish tank behind the receptionist’s desk. Yup. Cream-colored
  fins. Black spot on right side. T