One Halloween night, Sandy Tillman touched a book she was never meant to open. Hidden inside the library of Hawthorne House—a centuries-old estate with a dead man in a secret room—an ancient tome called Mirror Mirror waited. The inscription inside made one thing clear: “Whoever possesses this book shall have exclusive control of all reflective […]
Category: Parallel Universe
Opening: A Halloween Story That Refuses to Stay in One World A Halloween party is a familiar story setting, but Mirror Mirror takes that starting point into territory involving murder, possession, time travel, and parallel realities. Looking back at the finished novel, was there a particular moment when you realized the story had grown into […]
Searching for a Haunting Halloween Read? “Mirror Mirror: Halloween Party of the Century” is what you’re looking for. Follow ordinary Sandy Tillman into a party where extraordinary paranormal adventures and horrific conflicts crush the ordinary when an interdimensional spirit possesses her, pulling her out of this world and into a different time… more than once. […]
Sandra (Sandy) Tillman – 32-year-old real estate agent – quite ordinary, unassuming, and happy not to be in a relationship beyond the one she shares with her best friend, Melissa. Sandy did not have a grand plan beyond hosting a Halloween party at the Hawthorne House, willed to Melissa when her grandfather died three years […]
Melissa Merriweather and Sandy Tillman pulled into the long driveway of the Hawthorne Estate and were struck by the overgrown grounds and a massive, obviously neglected house, and by how the whole place looked haunted as hell. Three years earlier, Mel’s grandfather, Marcus T. Hawthorne III, was found dead in a secret room adjacent to […]
This tale is about what happens to an ordinary 32-year-old real estate agent when she selects an old book from a library shelf during a pre-party planning visit. What happens next is by no means planned… The book, Mirror Mirror, an ancient leather-bound tome with faded gold-leaf calligraphy on the spine, caught Sandy’s attention. It […]
0822326 – Book Blurb: “Mirror Mirror: Halloween Party of the Century” Sandy was overwhelmed when the dressing mirror erupted with a bolt of energy as the entity eliminated her attackers. Terror overwhelmed her, and in a fit of rage she threw the ancient tome that possessed her at the mirror, shattering it. The book ricocheted […]
Phantastic Phil and Wil the Thrill were up to no good, with every intent to assault Sandy Tillman at her own party. When Phil laid his hands on her, she pleaded for help even though she was alone with her attackers. The dressing mirror came alive, serving as a portal, and an entity from the […]
Novellaire Circle Book Club Author Spotlight Feature Ongoing Spotlight Season | April 20th, 2026 At Novellaire Circle Book Club, we are committed to discovering bold voices and stories that challenge the boundaries of imagination. This season, we are honored to spotlight author Gary G Wise, whose novel “Mirror Mirror: Halloween Party of the Century” takes […]
Surviving Extraordinary When we meet our protagonist, Sandra (Sandy) Tillman, while reading “Mirror Mirror – Halloween Party of the Century”, ordinary was an accurate description of who she was, until an extraordinary series of uninvited events invade her ordinary life. As the tale develops, one might ask: Is Ordinary Even Compatible With Extraordinary? That’s an odd question […]