The Scarecrow

by J. P. Raley

Overview

Halloween. A time for tales of the supernatural, dressing up in costumes, and children going trick or treating. For some, Halloween is a time of watching scary movies that make you jump, while for others, it is a time for fall celebrations.

For one woman and her family, Halloween is going to be more than what they had expected. Especially with a lone scarecrow standing watch over an abandoned farmhouse across the way from the woman's house.

Will the days counting down towards Halloween be the last the woman and her family will ever see? Or, is there more than meets the eye to the foreboding, solitary figure that stares into the souls of those who gaze its way?

From the author who brought you Soul Snatchers and Omega Sunrise comes the tale of a haunting that will make you wonder what indeed lives in the night of our imagination and what truly exists when we don't pay attention.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855648324
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/18/2023
Pages:	98
Sales rank:	369,594
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

When asked where home is, JP Raley enjoys telling the story of being from everywhere. JP's dad was in the United States Army when it was time to enter the world, so moving every few years became the norm. Born in Alabama, living in Germany at different times, and calling Texas home base when the family was on break from moving, JP Raley has seen quite a bit of Europe as well as a little over half of the United States. Garland, Texas, was always the original marker for what would eventually be called home base, but Germany would seem like an essential part of JP Raley's life.

After graduating from Giessen American High School in 1992, JP Raley would subsequently obtain a bachelor's degree and an MBA in later years as time went on. However, the years spent at different schools in Garland, Texas, would see JP Raley remembering classmates as a reminder of the simple times of being a child. While JP Raley briefly attended South Garland High School, where JP's parents graduated, it would ultimately be Giessen who would help define JP's dream of becoming a writer from the time of being a Griffin. As JP Raley would say with the personal quote created in 1992 during his senior year in high school: "Creativity is the spark of my life and words the life of my soul."

Writing has always been a part of JP's life as long as he can write. Articles, stories, poetry, movie scripts, television show scripts, comic book story arcs, and ideas from books stored over the years have all been essential to who he is as an individual. JP believes that letting one's soul express itself creatively is just as important as it is to have the physical body eat, sleep, and breathe. History records past events that give us a look into their lives as we see them from our perspective. So, why not write our stories today so that others may have but a glimpse of our own experiences from the words we share?