{"id":13629,"date":"2019-10-08T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2019-10-07T14:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T18:05:25","slug":"the-mask-halloween-serial-novel-kevin-lucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/the-mask-halloween-serial-novel-kevin-lucia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mask: A Halloween Serial Novel by Kevin Lucia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em><strong>Cemetery Dance reviews editor\/columnist Kevin Lucia is writing a Halloween serial novel one day at a time on his blog. We thought it might be something our readers would enjoy as we count down to our favorite holiday!\u00a0 Check out Kevin&#8217;s essay on the origins of\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>The Mask<em>, and follow the links at the end to read along.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13630\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/the-mask-halloween-serial-novel-kevin-lucia\/mask\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mask.jpg?fit=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mask\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mask.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13630\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mask-263x350.jpg?resize=263%2C350\" alt=\"The creepy mask that inspired Kevin Lucia's serial novel The Mask.\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mask.jpg?resize=263%2C350&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mask.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mask.jpg?resize=1200%2C1600&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mask.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 85vw, 263px\" \/>Two weeks ago, I found the weirdest mask in our school&#8217;s dirt cellar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The dirt cellar&#8212;which began life as a fallout shelters in the fifties&#8212;is where all sorts of things get stored. Things like old desks, cabinets, bookshelves, toilets, tables&#8230;you name it. Boxes of old textbooks, old televisions, all the things a school might store over the years instead of throwing out, just because they &#8220;might&#8221; be needed sometime in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m down there all the time. I&#8217;m a scrounger by nature, (I learned it from my Dad, who learned it from his father, who was a teen during the Depression), and I&#8217;m always looking for something to add to my classroom. In this case, I was looking for Halloween decorations, because seasonal decorations are also stored in the dirt cellar.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And I found this weird rubber mask. With bulging eyes, stringy black hair, and a gaping black mouth. Inspiration struck, and I decided to take the mask (its rubber felt weird between my fingers) and hang it on my classroom door in the center of Halloween wreath as my own &#8220;Marley Knocker.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It looks great. Really creepy. Maybe\u00a0<i>too<\/i>\u00a0creepy. When I open and close the door, strands of its stringy and strangely clingy hair brushes my face. Because it bulges out some, and because it hangs at face level, when I unlock and lock the door, I&#8217;m overcome with the irrational belief that, one of these days, it&#8217;s going to open that gaping mouth even wider, and swallow my head, whole.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>So, last Monday, on inspiration, I typed the following:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>It was the ugliest mask Lester had ever seen. Bulging, uneven eyes. A wide, screaming mouth. Crooked rotten teeth, and stringy black hair which felt entirely too real. The face&#8217;s sickly gray rubber felt wrong between his fingers. Too slick. Too viscous. Like it wasn&#8217;t entirely solid and might dissolve between his fingertips at any moment, even though he could see very clearly it looked dry, and solid.<br \/>\nLester didn&#8217;t like it. Not one bit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I decided I wanted to write a serial novel about a strange mask found in the basement of a school. I had no specific idea of where the story should go, or how it should end. I simply wanted to write a novel, chapter by chapter, every day for the month of October. I&#8217;ve always wanted to write a Halloween novel, and have never managed to. I decided&#8212;because I am slightly nuts&#8212;that I would make this October my personal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NANOWRIMO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the chapters progressed, I realized why I wanted to take on such an exercise. While I&#8217;ve enjoyed some success in the short story and novella form, I&#8217;ve yet to complete a publishable novel. The biggest reason, I believe, is I overburden myself with thinking too much about the novel in its entirety. Wondering how it will ultimately end, what all the characters ultimately want, what it all <i>means<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>What I really wanted to do&#8212;have wanted to do for some time now&#8212;is simply pick a starting point, and go. Decide every day what I was writing <i>that day only<\/i>\u00a0and save whatever was going to happen next for the following day.<\/p>\n<p>And thus: my Halloween serial novel,\u00a0<i>The Mask.\u00a0<\/i>The goal is to complete it by Halloween. I have no idea how it ends. I have no idea what the mask is, or what it means. All I know is what I&#8217;ve written so far, and what I wrote today. I will figure out tomorrow when I write tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Want to come along for the ride?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/p\/the-mask.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/p\/the-mask.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570553464866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTZcK0NMZhPzMuoTqqZz-TO0aKRQ\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Mask<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/the-mask.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/the-mask.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570553464866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHBLhydC7hPuEPnhVHtHhEKyXB2bA\">Chapter 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-2_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-2_2.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570553464866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHYWPDf_XDhr72OgM0ALFRqiH5lQ\">Chapter 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-3.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570553464866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGkdGpeXTrIePiWsld7MdVAGqMNsQ\">Chapter 3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-4.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570553464866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGD5S-d_5fWEQqKOOkRLwirciev2g\">Chapter 4\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-5.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570553464866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfLRsbbCmVtsfPWIcZeT-HCQ5rpw\">Chapter 5\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter-6.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570553464866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEyTRmgtcgtNFlJ4FNzW6I2jKw4hQ\">Chapter 6<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/the-mask-chapter.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1570553464866000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFAi7Gk4SQ3d58K2CCm8_WIp4no2A\">Chapter 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Kevin Lucia\u00a0is the Reviews Editor for\u00a0Cemetery Dance.\u00a0His short fiction has appeared in several anthologies. His first short story collection,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Things Slip Through<\/strong><em><strong>,<i>\u00a0was published November 2013, and his most recent short story collection,\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/em><strong>Things You Need<\/strong><em><strong>,\u00a0<i>was released September, 2018<\/i>. He\u2019s currently working on his first novel. For free monthly fiction, book reviews, YouTube commentaries, and three free ebooks, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlucia.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.kevinlucia.blogspot.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1542068072725000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGUfVFtcrXfOM_KYaqNjMqLaJH-PA\">www.kevinlucia.blogspot.com<\/a>\u00a0and sign up for his monthly email newsletter.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cemetery Dance reviews editor\/columnist Kevin Lucia is writing a Halloween serial novel one day at a time on his blog. We thought it might be something our readers would enjoy as we count down to our favorite holiday!\u00a0 Check out Kevin&#8217;s essay on the origins of\u00a0The Mask, and follow the links at the end to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/the-mask-halloween-serial-novel-kevin-lucia\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mask: A Halloween Serial Novel by Kevin Lucia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[828,316],"tags":[830,317,1622,829,783,1887],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-halloween-thing-a-day","category-free-fiction","tag-a-halloween-thing-a-day","tag-fiction","tag-free-fiction","tag-halloween","tag-kevin-lucia","tag-the-mask"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Mask: A Halloween Serial Novel by Kevin Lucia - Cemetery Dance Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kevin Lucia is writing a Halloween serial novel, The Mask, on his blog. 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