''October Dreams'' (also titled ''October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween'') is an anthology of

Halloween Halloween, or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve), is a celebration geography of Halloween, observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christianity, Western Christian f ...

-themed memories and short stories edited by

Richard Chizmar Richard Thomas Chizmar (born 1965) is an American writer, the publisher and editor of '' Cemetery Dance'' magazine, and the owner of Cemetery Dance Publications. He also edits anthologies, produces films, writes screenplays, and teaches writi ...

and Robert Morrish.

Jack Ketchum Dallas William Mayr (November 10, 1946 – January 24, 2018), better known by his pen name Jack Ketchum, was an American horror fiction author. He was the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. His novels inclu ...

's "Gone" (first published in this anthology) was nominated for the 2000

Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing. History The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since ...

for Best Short Fiction.

Editions

This anthology was first published by

Cemetery Dance Publications Cemetery Dance is an American company known for their specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense and their horror magazine of the same name. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college. Ce ...

in three different hardcover formats: * "Trade Edition" bound in full cloth * "Slipcased Limited Edition" of 450 signed and numbered copies bound in leather * "Traycased Lettered Edition" of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather. This version includes a separate, specially-commissioned Halloween Art Portfolio, featuring twelve pages of artwork.

* "The Black Pumpkin" by

Dean Koontz Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are billed as thriller (genre), suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror fiction, horror, fantasy, science fiction, Mystery fiction, mystery, and sati ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Elizabeth Engstrom * "Lantern Marsh" by

Poppy Z. Brite William Joseph Martin (born May 25, 1967), formerly Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author. He initially achieved fame in the Gothic fiction, gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s by publishing a string of successful novels and shor ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Rick Hautala Rick Hautala (February 3, 1949 – March 21, 2013) was an American speculative fiction and horror writer. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1974, where he received a Master of Art in English Literature. Hautala arrived on the horror ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Steve Rasnic Tem Steve Rasnic Tem (born 1950) is an American author. He was born in Jonesville, Virginia. Rasnic attended college at Virginia Tech, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He earned a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado ...

* "Conversations in a Dead Language" by

Thomas Ligotti Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is an American horror author, lay philosopher, and writer. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of philosophical h ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Gary A. Braunbeck * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

* "Yesterday's Child" by Thomas F. Monteleone * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Hugh B. Cave Hugh Barnett Cave (11 July 1910 – 27 June 2004) was an American writer of various genres, perhaps best remembered for his works of horror, weird menace and science fiction. Cave was one of the most prolific contributors to pulp magazines of t ...

* "The Whitby Experience" by Simon Clark * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Christopher Golden Christopher Golden (born July 15, 1967) is an American writer. Early life Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts University. Career As well as novels, Golden has written com ...

* "In-between" a poem by

Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury ( ; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, Horror fiction, horr ...

* "Gone" by

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Alan M. Clark * "Yesterday's Witch" by

Gahan Wilson Gahan Allen Wilson (February 18, 1930 – November 21, 2019) was an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations. Biography Wilson was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was inspired by th ...

* "A Short History of Halloween" by Paula Guran * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

* "Mask Game" by

John Shirley John Shirley (born February 10, 1953) is an American writer, primarily of horror, fantasy, science fiction, noir fiction, westerns, and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western about Wyatt Earp, ''Wyatt in Wichita'', and ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Tom Piccirilli * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Jack Cady * "Out of the Dark" by David B. Silva * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Robert Morrish * "Heavy Set" by

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by William F. Nolan * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Michael Cadnum * "Boo" by

Richard Laymon Richard Carl Laymon (January 14, 1947 – February 14, 2001) was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. Life and career Laymon was born and raised outside of Chicago, Illinois, then l ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Douglas Clegg Douglas Clegg (born April 1, 1958) is an American horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website. Early life Born in Alexandria, Virginia to a "family of ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

* "Masks" by Douglas E. Winter * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Stanley Wiater * "A Redress for Andromeda" by Caitlin R. Kiernan * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

* "The Circle" by

Lewis Shiner Lewis Shiner (born December 30, 1950, in Eugene, Oregon) is an American writer. Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, and then identified with cyberpunk. He later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and ...

* "First of All, It was October" by Gary A. Braunbeck * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Yvonne Navarro * "Pay the Ghost" by

Tim Lebbon Tim Lebbon (born 28 July 1969, London) is a British horror and dark fantasy writer. Life Lebbon was born in London. He lived in Devon until he was eight and then in Newport until the age of 26. He now lives in Goytre, Monmouthshire with his ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Kim Newman Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction – both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's ''Dracula'' at the age of eleven & ...

* "Buckets" by F. Paul Wilson * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Owl Goingback Owl Goingback (born May 1, 1959) is an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Early life The writer was born James Russell Heidbrink on May 1, 1959, in St. Louis, Missouri. According to his personal website, Owl Goingback was ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Dennis Etchison Dennis William Etchison (March 30, 1943 – May 29, 2019) was an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction.

* "Orchestra" by Stephen Mark Rainey * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by David B. Silva * "Eyes" by Charles L. Grant * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Kelly Laymon * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Simon Clark * "Deathmask" by Dominick Cancilla * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Kristine Kathryn Rusch Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born June 4, 1960) is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream. Rusch won the Hugo Award for Best Nove ...

* "Some Witch's Bed" by

Michael Marshall Smith Michael Paul Marshall Smith (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall, M. M. Smith and Michael Rutger. Biography Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Smith moved with his family a ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Wayne Allen Sallee * "The Trick" by

Ramsey Campbell Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. He is the author of over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them winners of literary awa ...

* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Edward Gorman Edward Joseph Gorman Jr. (November 2, 1941 – October 14, 2016) was an American writer and short fiction anthologist. He published in almost every genre, but is best known for his work in the crime, mystery, western, and horror fields. His no ...

* "Pork Pie Hat" by

Peter Straub Peter Francis Straub (; March 2, 1943 – September 4, 2022) was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them ''Julia'' (1975), ''Ghost Story'' (1979) and ''The Talisman'' (198 ...

* "Trick-or-Read" by Stefan Dziemianowicz * "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by

Peter Crowther Peter Crowther (born 4 July 1949) is a British journalist, short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher and anthologist. He is a founder (with Simon Conway) of PS Publishing. He edits a series of themed anthologies of science fiction short ...

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