A Halloween Hymn: The Most Devilish of Dickens Adaptations - Paperback

by Jolyon Yates (Illustrator), Skip Peel (Author)

This is the 1st and larger paperback edition - Kindly Esek Gladstone is loved by almost everyone, serving as a church deacon and dedicating his life to charity work... but he hates Halloween, seeing it as a festival honoring nothing except darkness. But on Halloween Night, forewarned by the Spirit of his deceased mentor, he must face the temptations of three devils, taking a voyage across the Halloweens of his life to be challenged with his own lusts, his greed, and that most subtle of vices, his pride. A Halloween Hymn is a direct adaptation which inverses the events of Charles Dickens' famous A Christmas Carol to correspond with the modern American holiday of Halloween. It is a fanciful ode to that seasonal favorite, while at the same time taking a unique journey into the struggles of good and evil that wage within the hearts of men.

Author Biography

Skip Peel, alias Galen Edward Peel Jr., is a longtime Florida based writer now exploring more northerly climes with his wife Jill. A travel enthusiast, Japanophile, one time Disney Pirate, and inaugural staff for Repticon Reptile Shows, he holds a bachelor's in English and master's in Global Studies from Liberty University. He is the creator and author of the "Rex Summeral" series for G-FAN magazine that has appeared in over fifty installments during that publication's over 25-year history, as well as being featured in the Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales anthology by Agog! Press. He perpetually dreams of returning to Asia for humanitarian work, kissing his wife, and eating as much quality sashimi as is reasonably possible.