The Year Without Halloween

Halloween is CANCELLED?! No way!

Something scary has creeped into town and stopped Boone’s favorite holiday from happening. The stores are closed. His friends are all stuck inside. This year, it’s all tricks and no treats.

With hard work and a big imagination, Boone sets out to make this the best Halloween ever. But does he have a ghost of a chance? A FANGTASTIC new picture book for Monster Kids from ages 2 to 102 about keeping the Spirit of Halloween alive 365.

Shane Bitterling, originally from Indiana, is an Award-Winning writer, with over 30 spooky movies under his big, ugly belt buckle (20th Century Fox, Lifetime Movies, SyFy, etc.) and has published stories in several scary anthologies from Big Time Books. Although Santa Claus is his mentor and idol, his love for Halloween started at a young age while celebrating his grandma's birthday with creepy cakes. He has been the unofficial Halloween Ambassador to Malaysia for many years, introducing the holiday to children around the country. He lives in L.A. with his wife and wannabe werewolves, Rodan and Queen. He makes some of the best pizza you'll ever eat.

Walid Atshe is an illustrator, graphic designer, musician and also a special makeup effects artist with 1313fx. His style has always leaned towards the creepy and kooky whenever possible due to a lifelong obsession with Monsters and the Macabre. Inspired by fond childhood memories of Halloween Nights watching the late night creature features dressed in homemade costumes chowing down on trick or treat bounty as well as walking down the horror isles of the local video store obsessing over the cover art to all the movies he was too young to watch...but always imagining what they could be. Over the years the self-taught artist has created illustrations and paintings for various bands from around the globe, spoken-word albums, books covers, and comic books. When not at his desk drawing and watching scary movies with his mischievous pup Rocky, you can find him helping usher in new generations of monster fans at Tom Devlin's Monster Museum in Boulder City, Nevada.