Hannah-Beast (Dark Corners collection) by Jennifer McMahon

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Title: Hannah-Beast
Author: Jennifer McMahon
Published: Sept. 27, 2018
Publisher: Amazon Original Stories
Pages: 49
Genre: Short Story
Review: ebook
Buy Links: Amazon, Amazon.uk


The fate of a lonely girl becomes part of a town’s shameful secret history in Thriller Award winner Jennifer McMahon’s terrifying story of guilt, retribution, and one tragic Halloween night.
Thirty-four years ago, on October 31, poor Hannah Talbott took part in a scavenger hunt gone violently wrong. The mean girls made sure of it. To this day, for a haunted local mother, the most unsettling Halloween costume of all is an urban legend they call Hannah-Beast. It’s a reminder of the past she can’t forget. Especially tonight when it’s come back, so close to home.


I really liked this short story. 
Halloween night 34 years ago something horrible happened to a girl named Hannah. When Amanda's daughter wants to dress up as the towns Hannah beast (which we find out what a Hannah beast actually is) it sets up flashbacks for Amanda. It seems that 34 years ago her past will come back to haunt her and not in a good way. 
A group of girls treated a girl named Hannah not good. Hannah did things to fit in and it still didn't work. When on one Halloween night Hannah joins in with who she thinks is her friends in a night of fun turns tragic it all comes around in a full circle years later. Can you really get away from the Hannah beast? 





Jennifer McMahon
I was born in 1968 and grew up in my grandmother’s house in suburban Connecticut, where I was convinced a ghost named Virgil lived in the attic. I wrote my first short story in third grade. I graduated with a BA from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. A poem turned into a story, which turned into a novel, and I decided to take some time to think about whether I wanted to write poetry or fiction. After bouncing around the country, I wound up back in Vermont, living in a cabin with no electricity, running water, or phone with my partner, Drea, while we built our own house. Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness — I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full time. In 2004, I gave birth to our daughter, Zella. These days, we’re living in an old Victorian in Montpelier, Vermont. Some neighbors think it looks like the Addams family house, which brings me immense pleasure.

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