All Hallows PDF - Christopher Golden

All Hallows by New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–winning author Christopher Golden is a chilling supernatural horror novel steeped in 1980s nostalgia and small-town dread. Blending the eerie atmosphere of Stranger Things with classic Halloween terror, this story transforms a familiar suburban setting into a place of creeping fear and dark secrets.

The novel is set on Halloween night in 1984, in the quiet town of Coventry, Massachusetts. On Parmenter Road, families are already under strain—marriages are fracturing, old resentments are simmering, and long-buried secrets are beginning to surface. As trick-or-treaters roam the neighborhood in costumes and masks, something far more unsettling moves among them.

Four strange children appear on the street, unlike any others. Dressed in faded, old-fashioned costumes and wearing unsettling makeup, they look frightened and out of place. They beg the local children to hide them and keep them safe from a terrifying figure they call the Cunning Man. According to them, he is hunting them, and Halloween night is his time to strike.

As the night unfolds, disturbing changes ripple through the landscape. A clearing appears in the woods where none existed before, anchored by a blackthorn tree that feels ancient and wrong. The boundaries between the ordinary world and something far darker begin to blur. What started as a night of candy and costumes becomes a fight for survival.

Golden masterfully explores themes of fear, childhood innocence, fractured families, and the cost of looking away when evil takes root. Unlike his usual tales set in distant and dangerous locations, All Hallows brings the horror home—right to the front porch.

On this one night of the year, when everyone wears a mask, the true monsters may finally reveal themselves.