Excerpt - The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink

Alice Isn't Dead

Night Vale Presents

Fiction, Drama

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

From New York Times bestselling author Joseph Fink (and creator of Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead) comes a wickedly fun middle grade novel about a Halloween-obsessed girl named Esther Gold, who goes out trick-or-treating for one last year, only to find her town under the thrall of a mysterious presence. BOOK LAUNCH: July 27 @ 8pm ET with author Joseph Fink in conversation with Ransom Riggs. Pre-order the book here (https://www.welcometonightvale.com/books#halloweenmoon) to attend this event. THE HALLOWEEN MOON by Joseph Fink is available now at welcometonightvale.com/books or wherever it is you get your books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Joseph Fink here.
0:02.1	Back in 2016, I started to write a novel.
0:05.3	It was a novel for both children and adults, and it was about one of my favorite holidays,
0:10.2	Halloween.
0:11.2	I wrote the novel that I desperately wanted to read back when I was 10, 11, 12, 13 years
0:16.4	old, and now that novel is here, my first middle grade novel, The Halloween Moon Out
0:22.0	Tomorrow, July 27th.
0:24.7	The novel is about Esther Gold, who loves Halloween more than anything, except this year
0:29.8	Halloween Night never ends, and the scary stories might be happening for real.
0:34.9	Today, I am presenting to you an excerpt from that novel, and this is also so exciting.
0:40.1	The audiobook is read by Kevin R. Frey, who of course plays Kevin in Welcome to Night
0:45.4	Vale.
0:46.4	Kevin is a longtime friend and a wonderful performer, and there is no one I would rather have
0:51.3	read this book for you all.
0:53.0	So please, enjoy the first few chapters of The Halloween Moon performed by Kevin R. Frey
0:58.3	and get the book wherever you get books starting tomorrow.
1:02.5	And don't miss The Halloween Moon Launch Event.
1:06.2	That's tomorrow July 27th at 8 p.m. Eastern, in which the one and only ransom rigs, and
1:12.4	I will talk about writing, Halloween and the spooky side of storytelling.
1:17.4	Access to The Launch Event is free with purchase from participating bookstores.
1:22.2	The info about that is at welcometonightfail.com slash books.
1:27.4	Okay, here we go.
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