The Halloween Town That Forgot November: A Spooky Time-Loop Mystery of Thirteen Bells, Lost Children, and One Endless Halloween

Halloween was supposed to last one night. In Black Hollow, it may never end.

Twelve-year-old Ethan Cole has just moved to Black Hollow, a strange little town where Halloween is more than a holiday. Pumpkins glow on every porch. Costumes fill the streets. An ancient clock tower watches over Main Street.

And nobody likes talking about November.

On Halloween night, Ethan hears a mysterious warning:

When the clock strikes twelve, don't make a wish.

Then midnight arrives.

The clock rings thirteen times.

The next morning, Ethan wakes to discover something impossible.

It's October 31.

Again.

While the adults remember nothing, Ethan and his new friends—fearless Maya Carter, history-obsessed Oliver Reed, and mysterious Lucy Bell—realize they are trapped inside a Halloween that keeps repeating.

And every time the day begins again, Black Hollow becomes a little more frightening.

Jack-o'-lanterns seem to watch them. Old photographs change. Streets appear where none existed before. Shadowy figures wander the town. And Lucy begins drawing terrifying events before they happen.

Then the friends uncover a forgotten newspaper from Halloween night, 1926:

13 CHILDREN DISAPPEAR WITHOUT A TRACE.

The answer may be hidden inside an abandoned mansion known as Hollow House—a place whose doors open only on Halloween at midnight.

With each toll of the thirteen bells, Ethan and his friends move closer to discovering what really happened a century ago.

But they are also running out of time.

Because if they cannot uncover Black Hollow's secret, November may never come.

A fast-paced Halloween mystery filled with friendship, supernatural secrets, eerie twists, time-loop adventure, and just the right amount of spooky fun for young readers.