October Dreams
October Dreams first edition cover | |
Author | Edited by Richard Chizmar and |
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Illustrator | Glenn Chadbourne, , Jason Van Hollander, , and |
Cover artist | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Horror |
Publisher | Cemetery Dance Publications |
Publication date | 2000 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 660 (US hardcover edition) |
ISBN | 978-0-451-45895-7 |
OCLC | 50587857 |
October Dreams (also titled October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween) is an anthology of Halloween-themed memories and short stories edited by Richard Chizmar and . Jack Ketchum's "Gone" (first published in this anthology) was nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction.
Editions[]
This anthology was first published by Cemetery Dance Publications 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.
Contents[]
- "The Black Pumpkin" by Dean Koontz
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Elizabeth Engstrom
- "Lantern Marsh" by Poppy Z. Brite
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Rick Hautala
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Steve Rasnic Tem
- "Conversations in a Dead Language" by Thomas Ligotti
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Gary A. Braunbeck
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Jack Ketchum
- "Yesterday's Child" by Thomas F. Monteleone
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Hugh B. Cave
- "The Whitby Experience" by Simon Clark
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Christopher Golden
- "In-between" a poem by Ray Bradbury
- "Gone" by Jack Ketchum
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Alan M. Clark
- "Yesterday's Witch" by Gahan Wilson
- "A Short History of Halloween" by
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Poppy Z. Brite
- "Mask Game" by John Shirley
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Tom Piccirilli
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Jack Cady
- "Out of the Dark" by
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by
- "Heavy Set" by Ray Bradbury
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by William F. Nolan
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Michael Cadnum
- "Boo" by Richard Laymon
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Douglas Clegg
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Ray Bradbury
- "Masks" by Douglas E. Winter
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by
- "A Redress for Andromeda" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Richard Laymon
- "The Circle" by Lewis Shiner
- "First of All, It was October" by Gary A. Braunbeck
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Yvonne Navarro
- "Pay the Ghost" by Tim Lebbon
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Kim Newman
- "Buckets" by F. Paul Wilson
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Owl Goingback
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Dennis Etchison
- "Orchestra" by Stephen Mark Rainey
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by
- "Eyes" by Charles L. Grant
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Simon Clark
- "Deathmask" by
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "Some Witch's Bed" by Michael Marshall Smith
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by
- "The Trick" by Ramsey Campbell
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Edward Gorman
- "Pork Pie Hat" by Peter Straub
- "Trick-or-Read" by
- "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Peter Crowther
External links[]
Categories:
- 2000 short story collections
- Horror anthologies
- Halloween fiction