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    Halloween at Glosser's
    Halloween at Glosser's
    Halloween at Glosser's
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    Halloween at Glosser's

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    It's Halloween 1970, and Erin Lewis can't draw anything scary enough to win the window painting contest at Glosser Bros. Department Store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The 16-year-old has other things on her mind, like holding a séance at Glosser's to contact her brother, who died a year ago in Vietnam. Will he keep his promise and make contact from the other side? Or will Erin receive an equally shocking message from closer to home? Either way, it will be a Halloween she'll never forget. Neither will the crowd at the annual Glosser Bros. Halloween Parade when she turns one of the floats into her own personal horror show. Don't miss this trip back in time to the glory days of the Glosser Bros. Department Store by Robert Jeschonek, award-winning author of LONG LIVE GLOSSER'S, CHRISTMAS AT GLOSSER'S, EASTER AT GLOSSER'S, and PENN TRAFFIC FOREVER. It's a blast from Halloween past, complete with window painting, the Shaffer twins, and a parade down Main Street...a spooky, nostalgic story for the whole family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateDec 6, 2018
    ISBN9781370548149
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      Book preview

      Halloween at Glosser's - Robert Jeschonek

      Halloween at Glosser’s

      Halloween at Glosser’s

      A Johnstown Tale

      Robert Jeschonek

      Pie Press Publishing

      Contents

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      Halloween at Glosser's

      About the Author

      Glosser's Halloween Photo Gallery

      Special Preview: Christmas at Glosser’s

      HALLOWEEN AT GLOSSER'S

      Copyright © 2020 by Robert Jeschonek

      www.robertjeschonek.com

      Cover Art Copyright © 2020 by Ben Baldwin

      www.benbaldwin.co.uk

      Photos Copyright © 2020 William Glosser

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published in October 2015 by arrangement with the author. All rights reserved by the author.

      A Pie Press book

      Pie Press logo

      Published by Pie Press Publishing

      411 Chancellor Street

      Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

      www.piepresspublishing.com

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      The Masked Family

      Valentine’s Day at Glosser’s

      To Ruby Shaffer, for helping keep the magic alive.

      Halloween at Glosser's

      W hy not make the flower a meat-eater? asked Mrs. Mulligan. "Give it some blood-drenched fangs. Maybe have a person's foot sticking out of its mouth. That would be scary, don't you think?"

      Sixteen-year-old Erin Lewis just shrugged at the colorful picture she'd painted on the big front window of the Glosser Bros. Department Store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was supposed to be an entry in the 1970 Halloween window painting contest sponsored by Glosser's, but somehow, it just wasn't shaping up to be winner material.

      Happy flowers and beaming butterflies didn't exactly shout Halloween. Neither did the other elements of Erin's painting.

      You need to do something about that sun up there, too. Mrs. Mulligan pointed one thick finger at the big, smiling orb in the top right corner of the painting. Its bright yellow color was almost the same as the yellow sweater dress clinging to the art teacher's pudgy body. Instead of a smile, why not give it a gaping, jagged-toothed maw? Maybe give it some devil horns while you're at it, and some big, maniacal eyes.

      Erin sighed and frowned. Her right

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