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Happy October!
You know what that means, another month of spooky games in honor of Halloween, with 2021’s Celebrating All Things Spooky celebration! I’ve also got a few special promotions and announcements lined up this year.
Sales and Promotions
Once again, my horror novellas The Book at Dernier and It Came Back will be on sale for $0.99 for the entire month of October.
Not only that, but my comedy/horror novella The Zombie Mishap will be FREE this weekend to kick off the spooky season! You’ll have from October 2 at 3:00 AM ET to October 3 at 2:59 PM ET to pick up The Zombie Mishap for free.
Announcements
You might recall that I wrote the script for a short horror visual novel called Not It, which is available for free from itch.io.
Not It has been revamped with new backgrounds, CGs, voice acting, and more as Not It: Spookiest Edition! It will be available to purchase from Steam on October 12.
Contest
And now let’s discuss this year’s Celebrating All Things Spooky contest! The rules are slightly different than they were last year, so be sure to read them carefully.
This year, the available prizes are:
- Not It: Spookiest Edition (gift sent through Steam)
- Alien: Isolation (gift sent through Steam)
- Silent Hill 4: The Room (gift sent through GOG)
- Dead Age (Steam code)
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location (Steam code)
- Lakeview Cabin Collection (Steam code)
- eBook copy of The Book at Dernier
- eBook copy of It Came Back
- $15 sent through PayPal
- You pick a game for me to review!
If you choose the review option, your chosen game must be something I either own or is easily obtainable, which you can discuss with me beforehand. It must be a single game, not a collection (although the chosen game can be part of a collection). I will start playing it in November.
Rules:
- No purchase is necessary.
- Only comments made between October 1, 2021 at 12:01 AM ET and October 31, 2021 at 11:59 PM ET will be counted.
- 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on a Celebrating All Things Spooky blog post = 1 point.
- You must use an email address or website URL (or include another way of contacting you) in your comment so I can contact you if you win.
- The person with the most points will get their first pick of the prizes. The person with the second most points will pick second, and so on, until all prizes have been given out.
- The winner will be contacted by November 2, 2021.
You have between now and Halloween to leave comments, earn points, and win a fantastic prize! The month will be filled with spooky game reviews and content as usual. I hope you’ll participate!
Meanwhile, I’ve been debating about changing the name of the event in the future to better indicate its focus on dark, spooky, creepy, and/or Halloween-themed video games… but to what?
I vote for “Sam’s Spooktober Spooktacular!” Though that does sound, perhaps, too extravagant…
And I haven’t played Not It yet, but this seems like the perfect opportunity to give it a go!
That might be a bit much, hahaha. Plus it doesn’t emphasize games, although it doesn’t claim to be celebrating all spooky things like the current one, either…
Hmmm… Maybe Sam’s October Spookcade? Like an arcade, but spooky?
Hmm…. it has potential.
I like ‘All Things Spooky’ but just as a suggestion maybe something along the lines of ‘Ghastly Gamer Get-together’.
Hmm, that has potential, too.