Horror Anthology: Halloween

Halloween

Editor: Guran, Paula
Cover Art: Andrey Kiselev
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 480pp.
Pub. Date: September 13, 2011
Publisher: Prime Books

Shivers and spirits . . . the mystical and macabre . . . our darkest fears and sweetest fantasies . . . the fun and frivolity of tricks, treats, festivities, and masquerades.

Halloween is a holiday filled with both delight and dread, beloved by youngsters and adults alike.

Celebrate the most magical season of the year with this sensational treasury of seasonal tales — spooky, suspenseful, terrifying, or teasing — harvested from a multitude of master storytellers.

Note: “The October Game” by Ray Bradbury appears only in the print edition of Halloween as Mr. Bradbury does not authorize any e-editions of his work.

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to Halloween by Paula Guran
• Conversations in a Dead Language by Thomas Ligotti
• Monsters by Stewart O’Nan
• The Halloween Man by William F. Nolan
• The Young Tamlane by Sir Walter Scott (poem)
• Pork Pie Hat by Peter Straub
• Three Doors by Norman Partridge
• Auntie Elspeth’s Halloween Story (or The Gourd, The Bad, And The Ugly) by Esther Friesner
• Struwwelpeter by Glen Hirshberg
• Hallowe’en in a Suburb by H. P. Lovecraft (poem)
• On the Reef by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• The Sticks by Charlee Jacob
• Riding Bitch by K. W. Jeter
• Memories of el Dia de los Muertos by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Tricks and Treats: One Night on Halloween Street by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Memories by Peter Crowther
• Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe (poem)
• Mask Game by John Shirley
• By the Book by Nancy Holder
• Hornets by Al Sarrantonio
• Pranks by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Pumpkin Night by Gary McMahon
• Universal Soldier by Charles de Lint
• Night Out by Tina Rath
• One Thin Dime by Stewart Moore
• Man-Size in Marble by E. Nesbit
• The Great Pumpkin Arrives at Last by Sarah Langan
• Sugar Skulls by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• On a Dark October by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Vow on Halloween by Lyllian Huntley Harris
• (Summary of Ray Bradbury’s The October Game)
• The November Game by F. Paul Wilson
• Tessellations by Gary Braunbeck
• About the Authors
• About the Editor