The Halloween Mouse

The

Halloween

Mouse

By Richard Laymon

Pictures by Alan M. Clark

Cemetery Dance Publications

Baltimore

2001

Dedicated in loving memory to Richard Laymon

Text copyright © 2001 by Richard Laymon

Illustration copyright © 2001 by Alan M. Clark

Book design by Alan M. Clark

Published by Cemetery Dance Publications

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All Persons in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance that may seem to exist to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This is a work of fiction.

ISBN 1-58767-047-X

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