Trickery Treat

Trickery Treat is the 41st novel in the Charmed novels series and is written by Diana G. Gallagher.

It takes place during the Halloween following the end of Season 8, roughly six months after the finale.

Summary[]

For a complete plot of Trickery Treat, go here.

A portal opened—as a means for amends,
Leaves a vengeful spirit to roam.
Helping him cross over is the only way,
To restore peace within the home.

It's Halloween, and Piper is busy decorating the Manor, which has become the neighborhood hot spot on the most bewitching night of the year. Meanwhile, Paige decides to use the party as a chance to honor the dead. She casts a spell that creates a portal for a clan of leprechauns… and other wandering spirits.

The guests are thrilled and impressed with the realistic effects, but Phoebe, Piper, and Paige soon realize that they have a big trick to deal with: one not-so-friendly ghost going out of his way to turn the Manor into a haunted house. The Charmed Ones must stop this evil soul with a vengeance before he takes the life of one experienced ghost hunter who knows his story and has met him before…

Characters[]

Major[]

• Piper Halliwell: The eldest sister with the powers of Molecular Immobilization and Molecular Combustion. An evil spirit has invaded the Halliwell home, and Piper and her sisters need to find a way to expel it before it kills everyone inside.
• Phoebe Halliwell: The middle sister with the powers of Premonition and Empathy. An evil spirit has invaded the Halliwell home, and Phoebe and her sisters need to find a way to expel it before it kills everyone inside.
• Paige Matthews: The youngest half-sister with the powers of Telekinetic Orbing and Orbing. An evil spirit has invaded the Halliwell home, and Paige and her sisters need to find a way to expel it before it kills everyone inside.
• Leo Wyatt: Piper's husband. He was the Charmed Ones' Whitelighter, and an Elder before becoming human. He now runs Magic School to pass on his knowledge on magic.
• Coop: Phoebe's Cupid husband, who has the power of Beaming and can help others find love via his Cupid Ring. He becomes a medium for a malevolent spirit, who tries to force him to kill a certain innocent.
• Henry Mitchell: Paige's husband, who works as a parole officer. He is aware of his in-law family's secret.

Support[]

• Wyatt Halliwell: Piper and Leo's firstborn son. He has powers beyond everyone's comprehension.
• Chris Halliwell: Piper and Leo's second son.
• Fiona Dunne: A ghost hunter with minor psychic abilities. Her powers involve Mediumship and Sensing.
• Sheldon Winters: A bully ghost. His powers involve plasma balls, plasma bolts, and Possession.
• Andrew O'Brian: A leprechaun. His powers involve Hyper Speed, Apportation, Luck Granting and Rainbow Teleportation.
• Ken Carson: Skeptical of Fiona's claim about ghosts. Psychology assistant professor at the local university.
• Liam: O'Brian's deceased friend. He came back briefly on Halloween. His powers involved Hyper Speed, Apportation, Luck Granting and Rainbow Teleportation.
• Grady: A leprechaun. His powers involve Luck Granting and Rainbow Teleportation.
• Connor: A leprechaun. His powers involve Hyper Speed, Apportation, Luck Granting and Rainbow Teleportation.
• Victor Bennett: Piper and Phoebe's father.
• Marty: A deceased leprechaun. He came back briefly on Halloween. His powers involved Hyper Speed, Apportation, Luck Granting and Rainbow Teleportation.
• Seamus Fitzpatrick: A deceased leprechaun. He came back briefly on Halloween. His powers involved Hyper Speed, Apportation, Luck Granting and Rainbow Teleportation.

Minor[]

• Fran Winslow: A widow who believes in ghosts.
• Eve: The married woman who tried to seduce Leo Wyatt while he was pretending to be Louis.
• Vanessa Moreno: 8 years old. She goes trick-or-treating with Wyatt and the other kids.
• Abbey Cork: A 13-year-old girl. She goes trick-or-treating with Wyatt and the other kids.
• Ryan: 10 years old. He goes trick-or-treating with Wyatt and the other kids.
• Greg: Piper's ex-boyfriend. Phoebe runs into him at the fair.
• Tony Bartlett: The little boy who went to preschool with Wyatt. He goes trick-or-treating with Wyatt and the other kids.
• Margo Bartlett: Tony's mother.
• Nancy: A child. She goes trick-or-treating with Wyatt and the other kids.
• Sybil: A child. She goes trick-or-treating with Wyatt and the other kids.
• Barry: The boy who came into possession with Wyatt's favorite camouflage pants.
• Nancy's Mother: She and Nancy were present at the Halliwell's Halloween party.
• Barry's Father: He helped Barry take off his enchanted pants and then took him home.

Mentioned[]

• Penny Halliwell: The Charmed Ones' grandmother, who passed away in 1998. Her power was Telekinesis.
• Victoria Winters: Sheldon's wife whose spirit was kept from moving on by her husband.
• Witch Doctor: Captures evil spirits. The Witch Doctor caught the manifested spirit in Halliwell Manor before trying to destroy the sisters.
• Elias Lundy: The ghost who haunted the van Lewen family.
• Martha van Lewen: Elias's object of obsession and anger.
• Mark Chao: The young man who was murdered and whose spirit remained until he was buried.
• Lei Chao: Mark's mother.
• Billie Jenkins: The Charmed Ones' protegé with the powers of Telekinesis and Projection. She temporarily turned against the Charmed Ones under manipulations of her sister and the Triad, but returned to the side of good.
• Christy Jenkins: Billie's evil older sister with the powers of Pyrokinesis and Telepathy. She was kidnapped as a child and raised by demons, which converted her to side with evil and manipulate her sister into destroying the Charmed Ones. She met her demise at the hands of own sister.
• The Triad: The evil group who plotted to use the Jenkins to destroy the sisters. They were ultimately destroyed by the Charmed Ones.
• Carl: Eve's husband, who punched Leo in the face once.
• Edward Winslow: Fran's deceased husband.

Magical Notes[]

Book of Shadows[]

Banishing a Ghost[]

Banishing a ghost

To Banish a ghost to oblivion pour this mixture over the departed's bones:
a palmful of pomegranate seeds
ground into a fine paste a pinch of comfry root
a pinch of blood meal
a pinch of clematis seed
a pinch of dried rhubarb leaf
Mix well, add a chalice of Twice Blessed water and boil.

Spells[]

To Call for a Pair of Pants[]

Soldier pants,

Green and black,

Come back!

To Evict a Ghost[]

Watery-footprint ghost, be gone,

with the Power of Three we roust

you out of the door and onto the lawn,

get out and stay out of the house.

To Summon the Dead[]

Hear these words, hear our cry,

Spirit from the other side,

Come to us, we summon thee.

Cross now the great divide.

Fake Eviction Spell for a Ghost[]

Beneath this roof,

through haunted halls,

ghost be gone

within these walls.

Powers[]

• Aerokinesis: Used by Sheldon.
• Corporealization: Used by Sheldon.
• Empathy: Used by Phoebe to feel a spirit's anger.
• Force Field: Used by Sheldon to keep the party guests and other people out of the manor, except for the Charmed Ones, Fiona, Coop, O'Brian and Ken.
• Geokinesis: Used by Sheldon to create an eartquake in the living room.
• Healing: Used by Paige to heal Phoebe's wound.
• Hyper Speed: Used by Sheldon.
• Intangibility: Used by Sheldon.
• Invisibility Used by Sheldon.
• Molecular Immobilization: Used by Piper to freeze Sheldon's attacks, remove Ken's batteries from his audio recorder, and save Fiona from falling.
• Orb Shield: Used by Wyatt for protection.
• Orbing: Used by Paige to teleport. She teleported herself and her sisters to the Nob Hills Gardens Cemetery.
• Particle Swarm: Used by Sheldon.
• Plasma Balls: Used by Sheldon to attack the party guests.
• Plasma Bolts: Used by Sheldon to attack the party guests.
• Possession: Used by Sheldon Winters to possess Coop.
• Premonition: Used by Phoebe to see Coop attack Fiona and later see Fiona on the roof.
• Pyrokinesis: Used by Sheldon.
• Rainbow Teleportation: Used by the Leprechauns to travel to and from Halliwell Manor.
• Super Strength: Used by Sheldon.
• Telekinesis: Used by Sheldon to hurl sharp objects at Leo and the Charmed Ones.
• Telekinetic Orbing: Used by Chris and Paige to move objects. Paige used it to orb Leo's burning jacket into the sink, send Leo out of harm's way, and send three kids to safety, and later dig up Sheldon's bones.
• Thermokinesis: Used by Sheldon to generate heat in the floor.

Artifacts[]

• Book of Shadows: The Halliwell family's tome of spells and information.
• Shillelagh: Left by the leprechauns in the past. Paige accidentally calls the leprechauns to make amends.

Miscellaneous[]

• Sea salt blessed under a full moon can diminish ghostly energy.
• Rice compels playful spirits to count every grain scattered on the floor, which distracts them.

Notes and Trivia[]

• This is the last Charmed tie-in novel to be produced.
• Henry Mitchell and Coop made their debut novel appearances.
• Magic School has been reclaimed, but not yet reopened.
• Wisps and Bully Ghosts are featured.
• The incidents in Season 5 episode "House Call" is mentioned.
• Coop is learning how to drive.
• Phoebe has regained her power of Empathy, but not her Levitation power.
• The novel foreshadows Henry and Paige having three children, and them being one-quarter Whitelighters.
• The novel features the first successful use of the potion to banish a ghost. Several references are made to "Reckless Abandon" and the Charmed Ones' encounter with the ghost of Elias Lundy.

Differences from the Show[]

• It is mentioned that Grams married six times. While the same thing was mentioned in "Lost and Bound", the rest of the show specifically stated that she married four.
• Phoebe is already married to Coop (although the comics reveal that they married in February).
• Wyatt is mentioned to already be four years old. He should have been three-and-a-half since his birthday was in February.
• Paige mentioned that their time travel back to 1670 happened at P3. This is incorrect as it happened at Halliwell Manor and the year before Paige became a witch.
• Paige still has the shillelagh she received from Riley, but the leprechauns took it back in "Gone with the Witches".

Errors[]

• In one page, Coop was miscalled Cole.
• In another page, Phoebe was mistakenly called Paige.
• Coop was mistakenly mentioned to be a Whitelighter in chapter eleven.
• Andrew O'Brian was incorrectly called "O'Brien" throughout the entire book.
• The sisters mentioned using a dragon talisman to ward off evil spirits, like the one Lei Chao owns. The talisman figurine is actually a lion.