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conversations.value: All Nell's life, Olive has lived next door but one. And all her life, Nell has hated her. Even at school she had sparkled indecently, unladylike, turning heads. But that was before she gave in to gravity. Oh, she might have been a beauty once, Olive Owens, but now she is a fright - a fat old spinster, childless, senile, nursed by the lackey she calls a lodger. Nell has a son, her pleasure and her shame, though now she lives alone. She watched her husband die in the dressing-table mirror, and she talks to him still, at times has to slip him over to shut him up. Nell is sharp, in all the places Olive is round. When Wolfe moves into the house in between them, their quiet street is transformed. A lonely, spirited, eight-year-old boy, he knocks on their doors at Halloween and invites them to his bonfire party. As the ashes smoulder and the fireworks flare, he finds himself in the middle of an ancient conflict, grudges bared, and burning with a fury he could never have imagined.
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conversations.value: And all her life, Nell has hated her. Even at school she had sparkled indecently, unladylike, turning heads. But that was before she gave in to gravity. Oh, she might have been a beauty once, Olive Owens, but now she is a fright - a fat old spinster, childless, senile, nursed by the lackey she calls a lodger. Nell has a son, her pleasure and her shame, though now she lives alone. She watched her husband die in the dressing-table mirror, and she talks to him still, at times has to slip him over to shut him up. Nell is sharp, in all the places Olive is round. When Wolfe moves into the house in between them, their quiet street is transformed. A lonely, spirited, eight-year-old boy, he knocks on their doors at Halloween and invites them to his bonfire party. As the ashes smoulder and the fireworks flare, he finds himself in the middle of an ancient conflict, grudges bared, and burning with a fury he could never have imagined.
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Trick or Treat about Oliver, Halloween, Jake with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life?
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conversations.value: PreS-Gr 2-Oliver, a friendly ghost living in an empty house, has a lot of work ahead of him in preparation for his Halloween party. He glides in ghostlike fashion out the door to deliver invitations to the witches, to skeletons Skully and Jake, and to the bats in the cave. However, as he hurriedly heads home, he drops an invitation in front of two human children. Back inside, Oliver must perform the ghost version of preparing for guests: dusting the furniture (by applying dust on it), inviting spiders inside, waking black cats, and making sure that the jack-o'-lanterns are ready. Soon the partygoers arrive; the witches have brought their brooms to share rides, and Skelly and Jake are ready to perform as the "Spooky Bones Band." Then, the two little accidental guests arrive, dressed up as a cow and a jack-o'-lantern. After some quick conferring with the other guests, Oliver decides not to frighten the children, but to welcome them. The children believe that Oliver and the other guests have terrific costumes. They all have a great time, and the next day they invite Oliver to Jack-o'-Lantern's upcoming birthday party. The illustrations, done in watercolor and pencil, are simple, uncluttered, and cartoonlike. Each page has one to two sentences of text. A suitable addition to collections of non-scary Halloween tales.-Roxanne Burg, Orange County Public Library, CA(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Trick or Treat about Halloween, Horror, Chizmar with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: Last year Chizmar co-edited October Dreams, a Halloween tribute volume that won the International Horror Guild Award for best anthology. This compilation of new novellas by five horror heavyweights reprises the Halloween theme, but proves a very mixed bag of treats. The book leads with strength: the author's "Hornets" strikes an eerie pitch of autumn gloom in its account of a blocked horror writer battling an insect infestation and the creeping influence of the dark lord Samhain. Gary Braunbeck, in "Tessellations," evokes the dark carnival atmosphere of Halloween revels, but in a spew of chaotic images that virtually derail its sensitive account of a woman's exorcism of family guilt one All Hallows Eve. Nancy Collins's "The Eighth Devil" and Rick Hautala's "Miss Henry's Bottles" are both teen coming-of-age stories in which the authors try with varying degrees of success to juxtapose the childish innocence of Halloween make-believe with real-life horrors spawned by adult lies and illusions. Although competently told, the majority of stories fail to deliver any of the expected holiday magic or chills, and might just as easily have taken place another day of the year. This is most obvious in Thomas Tessier's uncharacteristically over-the-top "Scramburg, U.S.A.," a tale of juvenile delinquents on a Fourth of July rampage that segues unconvincingly into Halloween hijinks only in its last few pages. Horror devotees will find most of these stories thematically forced and not up to their authors' usual standards.
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conversations.value: Horror devotees will find most of these stories thematically forced and not up to their authors' usual standards..," a tale of juvenile delinquents on a Fourth of July rampage that segues unconvincingly into Halloween hijinks only in its last few pages.A.S. This is most obvious in Thomas Tessier's uncharacteristically over-the-top "Scramburg, U. Although competently told, the majority of stories fail to deliver any of the expected holiday magic or chills, and might just as easily have taken place another day of the year. Nancy Collins's "The Eighth Devil" and Rick Hautala's "Miss Henry's Bottles" are both teen coming-of-age stories in which the authors try with varying degrees of success to juxtapose the childish innocence of Halloween make-believe with real-life horrors spawned by adult lies and illusions. Gary Braunbeck, in "Tessellations," evokes the dark carnival atmosphere of Halloween revels, but in a spew of chaotic images that virtually derail its sensitive account of a woman's exorcism of family guilt one All Hallows Eve. The book leads with strength: the author's "Hornets" strikes an eerie pitch of autumn gloom in its account of a blocked horror writer battling an insect infestation and the creeping influence of the dark lord Samhain. This compilation of new novellas by five horror heavyweights reprises the Halloween theme, but proves a very mixed bag of treats.Last year Chizmar co-edited October Dreams, a Halloween tribute volume that won the International Horror Guild Award for best anthology
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conversations.value: Trick or Treat (1952 film): The film opens with the song "Trick or Treat for Halloween", the lyrics of which tell the film\'s moral – one must be generous on Halloween or face trouble.\nOne Halloween night, Witch Hazel observes Huey, Duey, and Louie trick-or-treating.\nWhen the trio go to their uncle Donald Duck\'s house, Donald decides to prank the boys (giving them a "trick" instead of a treat).\nSo instead of giving them candy, he intentionally puts firecrackers in their bags, then pulls a string that dumps a bucket of water on their heads.\nAfter Donald bids farewell to the boys, the discouraged nephews go and sit on the curb.\nBut Hazel, who was watching the drama unfold, approaches the boys and tries to encourage them.\nWhen she discovers that they believe in witches, she offers to help them get their treats from Donald after all.\nAt first, she tries to convince Donald herself, but he skeptically retorts, pulls and releases her stretchy nose, and pranks her as well with a bucket of water, not believing she is a real witch.\nRealizing that the job may be harder than she anticipated, Hazel tells the boys she will use her magic for this situation.\nIn another location, a scene paying homage to Shakespeare\'s Macbeth shows Hazel and the nephews concocting a magic potion, adding somewhat more whimsical ingredients than the Three Witches in Macbeth.\nAfter testing the potion, Hazel fills an insecticide duster (similar in appearance to a Flit gun) with the potion and returns to Donald\'s house with the nephews.\nUpon arriving back at Donald\'s house, Hazel sprays the potion at an assortment of objects, causing them to become animated or anthropomorphic.\nDonald, stunned at the magic being displayed before him, immediately gives in and agrees to treat his nephews, but when Hazel refers to him as a pushover, he changes his mind.\nDonald then locks his pantry and swallows the key.\nHazel then uses the potion on Donald\'s feet to give her control of their maneuverability, and commands them to kick out the key, causing Donald to perform a crazy dance.\nBut when the key is kicked out, Donald throws it under the pantry door.\nHazel sprays Donald\'s feet again and orders them to smash the door down with Donald.\nThis is initially unsuccessful, so Hazel commands him to take a longer start (\'bout a MILE OR TWO.\n), and he literally runs that far before he breaks down the pantry door and is left unconscious on the floor in defeat.\nIn the end, Huey, Duey, and Louie collect their treats and Hazel departs.\nA final shot shows an enchanted Jack-o\'-lantern suddenly pop onto the screen saying "Boo.\n" to the viewers before smiling.
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conversations.value: Trick or Treat (1952 film): The film opens with the song "Trick or Treat for Halloween", the lyrics of which tell the film\'s moral – one must be generous on Halloween or face trouble.\nOne Halloween night, Witch Hazel observes Huey, Duey, and Louie trick-or-treating.\nWhen the trio go to their uncle Donald Duck\'s house, Donald decides to prank the boys (giving them a "trick" instead of a treat).\nSo instead of giving them candy, he intentionally puts firecrackers in their bags, then pulls a string that dumps a bucket of water on their heads.\nAfter Donald bids farewell to the boys, the discouraged nephews go and sit on the curb.\nBut Hazel, who was watching the drama unfold, approaches the boys and tries to encourage them.\nWhen she discovers that they believe in witches, she offers to help them get their treats from Donald after all.\nAt first, she tries to convince Donald herself, but he skeptically retorts, pulls and releases her stretchy nose, and pranks her as well with a bucket of water, not believing she is a real witch.\nRealizing that the job may be harder than she anticipated, Hazel tells the boys she will use her magic for this situation.\nIn another location, a scene paying homage to Shakespeare\'s Macbeth shows Hazel and the nephews concocting a magic potion, adding somewhat more whimsical ingredients than the Three Witches in Macbeth.\nAfter testing the potion, Hazel fills an insecticide duster (similar in appearance to a Flit gun) with the potion and returns to Donald\'s house with the nephews.\nUpon arriving back at Donald\'s house, Hazel sprays the potion at an assortment of objects, causing them to become animated or anthropomorphic.\nDonald, stunned at the magic being displayed before him, immediately gives in and agrees to treat his nephews, but when Hazel refers to him as a pushover, he changes his mind.\nDonald then locks his pantry and swallows the key.\nHazel then uses the potion on Donald\'s feet to give her control of their maneuverability, and commands them to kick out the key, causing Donald to perform a crazy dance.\nBut when the key is kicked out, Donald throws it under the pantry door.\nHazel sprays Donald\'s feet again and orders them to smash the door down with Donald.\nThis is initially unsuccessful, so Hazel commands him to take a longer start (\'bout a MILE OR TWO.\n), and he literally runs that far before he breaks down the pantry door and is left unconscious on the floor in defeat.\nIn the end, Huey, Duey, and Louie collect their treats and Hazel departs.\nA final shot shows an enchanted Jack-o\'-lantern suddenly pop onto the screen saying "Boo.
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conversations.value: Trick or Treat (1986 film): High school outcast Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price) is writing a letter to his hero, heavy metal musician Sammi Curr (Tony Fields).\nA vulgar and infamous superstar, Sammi is a hometown hero of Eddie\'s town, and an alumnus of Eddie\'s own Lakeridge High School.\nHe puts the letter in an envelope and starts doing his chores.\nWatching the news at the same time, following a report on Sammi\'s being banned from returning to Lakeridge High to perform at the Halloween dance, Eddie is shocked to hear the worst words to ever reach his ears: Sammi Curr has died in a mysterious hotel fire.\nEddie is completely devastated.\nHe goes to his friend "Nuke" (Gene Simmons), a radio DJ who knew Sammi Curr personally.\nTo take Eddie\'s mind off the death of his idol, Nuke gives Eddie the only copy of Curr\'s last and as-yet unreleased album, "Songs in the Key of Death", on an acetate disc.\nNuke has recorded the disc onto high quality tape and plans to play it in its entirety on-air at midnight on Halloween as a tribute since, according to Nuke, that was always Sammi\'s plan for the album\'s debut.\nOnce back home, Eddie falls asleep while listening to the record and has a strange dream about the fire that killed Sammi Curr.\nWhen he wakes up he finds that the record is skipping and after listening to it for a few seconds he comes to realize that something is not quite right about the lyrics that the record is stuck on.\nHaving previous experience with hidden lyrics, Eddie plays the record backwards, but receives more than he imagined: Sammi Curr speaking to him from beyond the grave.\nSammi instructs Eddie on how to go about getting revenge on a group of bullies who make his school life a torment, since Sammi himself was bullied constantly in high school and he wants to now take the revenge on Eddie\'s bullies that he never got to take on his own.\nEddie explains the situation to his best friend Roger (Glen Morgan), who is highly skeptical of the whole thing.\nAt first the revenge is innocent enough, but before long the plans start to become more sinister, with the potential to cause real physical harm and eventually building towards murder.\nHaving no desire to take things so far, Eddie determines to sever ties with the dead rocker, but Sammi has no intention of letting that happen.\nWhen Eddie is alone in his room, Sammi causes some soda to spill on the record, initiating an electrical surge that gives him just the amount of energy he needs to escape out of the record and become able to carry out his murderous plans without the help of another.\nEddie smashes his record player and stereo system after a personal, face-to-face visit from Sammi, hoping to make sure he never sees the dead rocker in his room again.\nAfter a cassette tape Eddie copied of the album puts his worst bully\'s girlfriend in the hospital simply from listening to it, Eddie recruits Roger to steal the tape out of the bully\'s car, and orders its destruction.\nOut of naivety and ignorance to the severity of the situation, Roger lies to Eddie about the tape\'s destruction and instead plays it on his own stereo system, earning Roger his own visit from Sammi Curr himself.\nSammi orders Roger to play the tape of "Songs in the Key of Death" at the high school Halloween dance, or die.\nRoger does as he is told, and goes to the dance to play the tape over the PA system.\nEddie learns of the tape being played, and quickly attempts to reach the school to stop Sammi from causing any more damage.\nWhen the live band takes the stage for their performance at the dance, however, Sammi literally explodes out of the lead singer\'s guitar amplifier and proceeds to steal the show.\nThe delighted students think it is all a Halloween tribute to Sammi Curr, even as Sammi begins to fire electric bolts from the neck of his guitar, disintegrating audience members.\nAfter the first few deaths, however, panic erupts as the young revellers realize the danger is very real, and Sammi wreaks havoc as the dance attendees flee in terror.\nWhen Eddie reaches the school, ambulances and police cars surround the building.\nAs he goes about trying to save the people still inside, Eddie realizes that Sammi can only travel through radio signals.\nEddie sets about destroying every radio he sees in an attempt to prevent Sammi from continuing his rampage, leading to a final confrontation between the young metal fan and his former idol.\nAfter reaching the radio station in a futile attempt to stop the midnight broadcast of Sammi\'s demonic album, Eddie succeeds in luring Sammi (in a cassette tape) into a police car and starts baiting him with insults until he breaks out and tries to attack Eddie from behind the car\'s security grill.\nEddie drives on to an unfinished bridge and speeds over the edge, launching the car into a river, short-circuiting the tape and finally destroying the malevolent rocker.
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conversations.value: \nEddie drives on to an unfinished bridge and speeds over the edge, launching the car into a river, short-circuiting the tape and finally destroying the malevolent rocker..\nAfter reaching the radio station in a futile attempt to stop the midnight broadcast of Sammi\'s demonic album, Eddie succeeds in luring Sammi (in a cassette tape) into a police car and starts baiting him with insults until he breaks out and tries to attack Eddie from behind the car\'s security grill.\nEddie sets about destroying every radio he sees in an attempt to prevent Sammi from continuing his rampage, leading to a final confrontation between the young metal fan and his former idol.\nAs he goes about trying to save the people still inside, Eddie realizes that Sammi can only travel through radio signals.\nWhen Eddie reaches the school, ambulances and police cars surround the building.\nAfter the first few deaths, however, panic erupts as the young revellers realize the danger is very real, and Sammi wreaks havoc as the dance attendees flee in terror.\nThe delighted students think it is all a Halloween tribute to Sammi Curr, even as Sammi begins to fire electric bolts from the neck of his guitar, disintegrating audience members.\nWhen the live band takes the stage for their performance at the dance, however, Sammi literally explodes out of the lead singer\'s guitar amplifier and proceeds to steal the show.\nEddie learns of the tape being played, and quickly attempts to reach the school to stop Sammi from causing any more damage.\nRoger does as he is told, and goes to the dance to play the tape over the PA system.\nSammi orders Roger to play the tape of "Songs in the Key of Death" at the high school Halloween dance, or die.\nOut of naivety and ignorance to the severity of the situation, Roger lies to Eddie about the tape\'s destruction and instead plays it on his own stereo system, earning Roger his own visit from Sammi Curr himself.\nAfter a cassette tape Eddie copied of the album puts his worst bully\'s girlfriend in the hospital simply from listening to it, Eddie recruits Roger to steal the tape out of the bully\'s car, and orders its destruction.\nEddie smashes his record player and stereo system after a personal, face-to-face visit from Sammi, hoping to make sure he never sees the dead rocker in his room again.\nWhen Eddie is alone in his room, Sammi causes some soda to spill on the record, initiating an electrical surge that gives him just the amount of energy he needs to escape out of the record and become able to carry out his murderous plans without the help of another.\nHaving no desire to take things so far, Eddie determines to sever ties with the dead rocker, but Sammi has no intention of letting that happen.\nAt first the revenge is innocent enough, but before long the plans start to become more sinister, with the potential to cause real physical harm and eventually building towards murder.\nEddie explains the situation to his best friend Roger (Glen Morgan), who is highly skeptical of the whole thing.\nSammi instructs Eddie on how to go about getting revenge on a group of bullies who make his school life a torment, since Sammi himself was bullied constantly in high school and he wants to now take the revenge on Eddie\'s bullies that he never got to take on his own.\nHaving previous experience with hidden lyrics, Eddie plays the record backwards, but receives more than he imagined: Sammi Curr speaking to him from beyond the grave.\nWhen he wakes up he finds that the record is skipping and after listening to it for a few seconds he comes to realize that something is not quite right about the lyrics that the record is stuck on.\nOnce back home, Eddie falls asleep while listening to the record and has a strange dream about the fire that killed Sammi Curr.\nNuke has recorded the disc onto high quality tape and plans to play it in its entirety on-air at midnight on Halloween as a tribute since, according to Nuke, that was always Sammi\'s plan for the album\'s debut.\nTo take Eddie\'s mind off the death of his idol, Nuke gives Eddie the only copy of Curr\'s last and as-yet unreleased album, "Songs in the Key of Death", on an acetate disc.\nHe goes to his friend "Nuke" (Gene Simmons), a radio DJ who knew Sammi Curr personally.\nEddie is completely devastated.\nWatching the news at the same time, following a report on Sammi\'s being banned from returning to Lakeridge High to perform at the Halloween dance, Eddie is shocked to hear the worst words to ever reach his ears: Sammi Curr has died in a mysterious hotel fire.\nHe puts the letter in an envelope and starts doing his chores.\nA vulgar and infamous superstar, Sammi is a hometown hero of Eddie\'s town, and an alumnus of Eddie\'s own Lakeridge High School.Trick or Treat (1986 film): High school outcast Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price) is writing a letter to his hero, heavy metal musician Sammi Curr (Tony Fields)
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conversations.value: Trick or Treat (unfinished film): A lesbian couple who want a baby become involved with a married couple.