October
Professor Kevin Michaels has returned to the picturesque town of New Polk to fill a teaching position at the local university and a long-held ambition: to revive interest in the town's most illustrious citizen, author Eileen Connel, and her neglected masterpiece, "Season of Witches". But first the must uncover the horror locked away inside the old woman's failing mind - a horror that had its birth one tragic Halloween night over forty years ago. Now, as October once again returns to upstate New York, so does a species of evil so monstrously alien it can only wear a human mask...
Al Sarrantonio
Al Sarrantonio (born 1952) is an American horror and science fiction author who has published, over the past 35 years, more than 45 books and 80 short stories. He has also edited numerous anthologies and has been called "brilliant" and "a master anthologist" by Booklist.