The Creeps: A Halloween Novel - Paperback

by Justin Zeppa (Author)

Adventure is alive when you mess with the dead...

When her brother was alive, Elyse Korbin used to live for Halloween. Now, a year after piano prodigy Patrick Korbin's untimely death by trick-or-treating, she finds it hard to live for anything.

School is a drag, her parents have lost their minds with grief, and her best friend, Will Castle, is probably in love with her. Nothing seems to matter until the discovery of an ancient text filled with bizarre markings pulls Elyse from her mourning gloom and pushes her into a night of chilling adventure.

With the help of her fellow misfits, Elyse decodes the spidery encryption and discovers the uncanny ability to summon Patrick's ghost from beyond the grave with her rare musical gifts. But their tampering with the barrier between life and death has brought back an unspeakable evil: Colonel Spicy Jack Cavendish, the legendary boogeyman whose fury almost destroyed Bootville during the American Revolution.

As Spicy Jack and his trash-talking sidekick bumble through the modern world, Elyse and her friends must seek help. They encounter a gallery of eccentric town characters from the present and the past in a race to unravel the mystery of their town's dark history and thwart the Colonel's sinister plans to finish the job he started centuries ago.

Funny, irreverent, and moving, The Creeps dishes out king-sized fun for all ages and scoffs at those who would hand out pennies or granola bars. Celebrate in style this Halloween, and give yourself The Creeps.