Dear all: as my favorite day of the year draws ever closer, I'd like to bid you all a Happy Halloween! I'll be wearing the same costume I wear every day of the year: Over The Hill Horror Novelist! I'll likely also be imbibing in some beverage or other containing some alcohol consituent, will hope to bear witness to attractive women WAY younger than me in howlingly skimpy wardrobe, eating friend squid, and watching Naschy's HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB.

Until next time, take care and be well!
Edward Lee

PS--for your amusement, here's a small excerpt from my HPL pastiche, "Trolley No. 1852"

Ensconced torches burned to either side as this shimmering vision of feminiity leaned over the carven rail and smiled.
“Welcome, gentlemen–all of you,” issued a lilting and vaguely accented voice. The words echoed. “Your presence is much appreciated and, as you will soon see, the very exclusive 1852 Club will do everything in its power to reward you for the privilege your esteemed presence...”
What an odd thing to announce...as denotations such as “esteemed” and “privileged” hardly described this lot of respectful yet otherwise brawny and likely not-well-educated working-classers. I struggled to identify the seductive woman’s sweetly flowing accent; yet I’ll admit that the mere sight of her compacted beauty took my breath away. There was something about her mein, her very deportment–even at this precipitous distance, her physique’s details seemed to gleam via some supernal clarity, as though an incorporeal magnifier hung invisibly before her: the poreless white valley of her bosom, the relief of the papillae of her magnificent breasts, the diamond-like sparkle of perfect teeth within the titillant smile–all of these traits seemed amalgamated into a single focus which left every man below speechless and irretrievably enraptured.

Consider me amused!!!

You also Ed. Halloween is also my wedding anniversary, so I have twice the reason to celebrate. Looking forward to more horror from you in the new year.

Ed,

Thanks for the excerpt...can't wait to read the entire tale.

Have a fun and safe Halloween yourself!

Horrorgasmically,

Chris

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Happy Halloween Ed, thanks for the excerpt.

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