Halloween

Edited by Paula Guran.

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.

Contents:

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