Feb 142013
Halloween
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.
List Price: $ 14.95
Price: $ 8.08
Hallowe’en Fix!,
I’m going to do what I wish other reviewers would do for books with multiple stories, I’m going to list the contents in order:
Conversations In A Dead Language – Thomas Ligotti
Monsters – Stewart O’Nan
The Halloween Amn – William F. Nolan
The Young Tamlane – Sir Walter Scott
Pork Pie Hat – Peter Straub
Three Doors – Norman Partridge
Auntie Elspeth’s Halloween Story – Esther M. Friesner
Struwwelpeter – Glen Hirshberg
Halloween In A Suburb – H.P. Lovecraft
On The Reef – Caitlin R. Kiernan
The Sticks – Charlee Jacob
Riding Bitch – K.W. Jeter
Memories Of El Dia De Los Muertos – Nancy Kilpatrick
Halloween Street – Steve Rasnic Tem
Tricks & Treats – Steve Rasnic Tem
Memories – Pepter Crowther
Ulalume: A Ballad – Edgar Allen Poe
Mask Game – John Shirley
By The Book – Nancy Holder
Hornets – Al Sarrantonio
Pranks – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Pumpkin Night – Gary McMahon
The Universal Soldier – Charles de Lint
Night Out – Tina Rath
One Thin Dime – Stewart Moore
Man-Size In Marble – E. Nesbit
The Great Pumpkin Arrives At Last – Sarah Langan
Sugar Skulls – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
On A Dark October – Joe R. Landsdale
The Vow On Halloween – Lyllian Huntley Harris
The October Game – Ray Bradbury
The November Game – F. Paul Wilson
Tessellations – Gary Braunbeck
Quite entertaining and worth buying! Enjoy…Happy Hallowe’en!!
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|Bradbury story ‘only in print edition’,
I love Halloween and enjoy reading stories about it. When I downloaded this edition, I went first to where the ‘October Game’ should have been. Bradbury is, of course, well known for his excellent Halloween stories. I was met with ‘this story only appears in the print edition’. Evidently Bradbury doesn’t ‘authorize’ any of his stuff in ebook format. Fine for him, this is his option. (He has ‘given in’ and allowed ebook of Fahrenheit 451.) But the description of the ebook needs to include the fact that the book is an incomplete version. Otherwise, this is a dishonest ripoff.
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|Excellent collection of Halloween stories,
Very good short story collection celebrating Halloween! Some repeats from other notable anthologies, but enough original stories to make up for it. Huge fan of the anthology October Dreams, and this volume makes a great companion!
Entries include:
The October Game – Bradbury
The November Game – Wilson
The Halloween Man – Nolan
Three Doors – Partridge
Halloween Street – Tem
Sugar Skulls – Yarbro
On a Dark October – Lansdale
Pumpkin Night – McMahon
Pranks – Hoffman
Memories of El Dia de los Muertos – Kilpatrick
The Great Pumpkin Arrives At Last – Langan
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