Join us for a Spook-tacular Evening!
The Jack o’laterns are being carved and lit, and a wind chill is blowing… so Halloween must be around the corner. Bring the whole family to celebrate at The Brewster Book Store with a spooky storytime, a literary pumpkin carving contest, a costume contest (for humans and animals), and a first-come-first-serve How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat? gift bags from Scholastic for the first 25 kiddos.
Literary Pumpkin Carving Contest (all ages)
Celebrate your favorite book this Halloween! Carve a literary or bookish-themed pumpkin and enter it in Brewster Book Store’s first-ever literary pumpkin carving contest. Winners selected from each of the three categories will receive a $15 gift certificate. All pumpkins will be lit during the Spook-tacular Evening event and remain on display outside the store until 1 p.m. Sunday.
Contest Guidelines
Carving or decoration should be based on a book’s theme or character.
Pumpkins should be brought to the store anytime Thursday, October 24th, or by 4:30 pm on Friday, October 25th
Please write your name in Sharpie on the bottom of your pumpkin and tape an index card with your name, phone, age, and category: Minion (4-10), Monster (11-17), or Mummy (18+), and literary inspiration
Pick your pumpkin up between 1 and 5 pm Sunday, October 27th
Reading with Local Author Corey R. Farrenkoph followed by a Horror Q & A
About the book:
Dave Gallagher mows the lawns and digs the graves at cemeteries in his hometown on Cape Cod. He also keeps the peace between the ghosts inhabiting those cemeteries. In the world of Living in Cemeteries, wrongdoing is atoned for by a person's descendants. Spirits decapitate relatives of serial killers and lay pox blankets over men responsible for the Trail of Tears. The only way Dave can learn of his pre-ordained death is by traveling the New England countryside, visiting haunted cemeteries, asking familial ghosts what fate has in store. A gruesome death, or a happily-ever-after with his longtime girlfriend, Jessica? Marauding Spirit-whipped bulls and deadly nightshade, a doomed roommate and a wayward crypt-sleeper each derail Dave's path to understanding, but nothing presents more of a challenge than his silent, long dead father. The man's refusal to speak leaves Dave wondering what evils his parents committed. How dark is the shade cast by his family tree? The only way to find out is to speak to the dead, but Dave's not always going to like the answers he receives.
About the author:
Corey Farrenkopf is a Cape Cod based writer. His debut novel, Living in Cemeteries, is forthcoming from JournalStone in April of 2024. He is the Fiction Editor for the Cape Cod Poetry Review. His work has appeared in The Southwest Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Tiny Nightmares, Catapult, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Bourbon Penn, Flash Fiction Online, Wigleaf, The Florida Review, Reckoning, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net award. He has also been nominated for both the Year’s Best Horror Anthology and the Year’s Best Horror and Dark Fantasy Anthology. He is represented by Marie Lamba of the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. He currently resides in a house on a hill with his wife, Gabrielle, and their tiny dog, Ooli. He works as a librarian.