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Halloween

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by Paula Guran


  About the Editor

  Paula Guran is the editor of Pocket Book’s Juno fantasy imprint, Senior Editor for Prime Books, and nonfiction editor for Weird Tales. In an earlier life she produced weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild Award award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination), edited Horror Garage magazine (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination), and has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications. She’s also done a great deal of other various and sundry work in sf/f/h publishing. Anthologies Guran has edited include Embraces, Best New Paranormal Romance, Best New Romantic Fantasy 2, Zombies: The Recent Dead, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010, Vampires: The Recent Undead, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011, and New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird.

  ALSO EDITED BY PAULA GURAN

  Embraces

  Best New Paranormal Romance

  Best New Romantic Fantasy 2

  Zombies: The Recent Dead

  The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010

  Vampires: The Recent Undead

  The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2011

  New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird

  Copyrights & First Publication

  Tessellations © 2001 by Gary Braunbeck. First publication: Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas, ed. Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance).

  “Memories” © 2010 by Peter Crowther. First publication: Cemetery Dance, # 63.

  “Universal Soldier” © 2006 by Charles de Lint. First publication: Mythspring, eds. Julie E. Czeneda & Genevieve Kierans (Red Deer Press).

  “Auntie Elspeth’s Halloween Story or The Gourd, The Bad, And The Ugly” © 2001 by Esther M. Friesner. First publication: The Ultimate Halloween, ed. Marvin Kaye (iBooks).

  “Struwwelpeter” © 2001 by Glen Hirshberg. First publication: SciFiction (SciFi.com), November 28, 2001.

  “Pranks” © 2009 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. First publication: Lone Star Stories Issue # 33, June 1, 2009.

  “The Vow on Halloween” by Lyllian Huntley Harris. First publication: Weird Tales, Vol. 4, No. 2, May-June 1924.

  “By the Book” © 2010 by Nancy Holder. First publication: More Stories from the Twilight Zone, ed. Carol Sterling (Tor).

  “The Sticks” © 2007 by Charlee Jacob. First publication: Cemetery Dance #57.

  “Riding Bitch” © 2007 by K.W. Jeter. First publication: Inferno, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor).

  “On the Reef” © 2010 by Caitlín R. Kiernan. First publication: Sirenia Digest #59.

  “Memories of El Día De Los Muertos” © 2000 by Nancy Kilpatrick. First publication: Dead of Night Magazine #8/The Vampire Stories of Nancy Kilpatrick (Mosaic Press).

  “The Great Pumpkin Arrives at Last” © 2008 by Sarah Langan. First publication: Doorways #7.

  “On a Dark October” © 1984 by Joe R. Lansdale. First publication: The Horror Show, Spring 1984.

  “Conversations in a Dead Language” © 1989 by Thomas Ligotti. Deathrealm #8, Spring 1989.

  “Pumpkin Night” © 2007 by Gary McMahon. First publication: Estronomicon, October 2007.

  “Hallowe’en in a Suburb” by H.P. Lovecraft. First publication: The National Amateur, 48, No. 4, March 1926 (as “In a Suburb”).

  “Man-Size in Marble” by E. Nesbit. First publication: Grim Tales (A.D. Innes, 1893).

  “The Halloween Man” by William F. Nolan © 1986 by TZ Publications. First publication: Night Cry, Summer 1986.

  “Monsters” © 2010 by Stewart O’Nan. First publication: Cemetery Dance #65.

  “Three Doors” © 2006 by Norman Partridge. First publication: At the Sign of the Snow Man’s Skull (Earthling).

  “Ulalume: A Ballad” by Edgar Allan Poe. First publication (anonymously): American Review: A Whig Journal No. XXXVI, December 1847.

  “Night Out” © 1985 by Tina Rath. First publication: Woman’s Realm, 1985.

  “Hornets” © 2001 by Al Sarrantonio. First publication: Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas, ed. Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance).

  “The Young Tamlane” by Sir Walter Scott. First publication (this version): Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; With a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition, Volume II, 2nd Edition, 1803 (Longman and Rees).

  “Mask Game” © 2000 by John Shirley. First publication: October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween, ed. Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance).

  Pork Pie Hat by Peter Straub © 1994 Seafront Corporation. First publication: Murder for Halloween: Tales of Suspense, eds. Michele Slung & Roland Hartman (The Mysterious Press).

  “Halloween Street” © 1999 by Steve Rasnic Tem. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1999.

  “Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street” © 1999 by Steve Rasnic Tem. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1999.

  “The November Game” © 1991 by F. Paul Wilson. First publication: The Bradbury Chronicles, eds. William F. Nolan & Martin H. Greenberg (Penguin/ROC).

  “Sugar Skulls” © 2005 by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. First publication: H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror #3.

  Table of Contents

  Introduction

  Conversations in a Dead Language

  Monsters

  The Halloween Man

  The Young Tamlane

  Pork Pie Hat

  Three Doors

  Auntie Elspeth’s Halloween Story

  Struwwelpeter

  Hallowe’en in a Suburb

  On the Reef

  The Sticks

  Riding Bitch

  Memories of el Día de los Muertos

  Halloween Street

  Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street

  Memories

  Ulalume: A Ballad

  Mask Game

  By the Book

  Hornets

  Pranks

  Pumpkin Night

  The Universal Soldier

  Night Out

  One Thin Dime

  Man-Size in Marble

  The Great Pumpkin Arrives at Last

  Sugar Skulls

  On a Dark October

  The Vow on Halloween

  [Summary of Ray Bradbury’s “The October Game”]

  The November Game

  Tessellations

  About the Authors

  About the Editor

  Copyrights & First Publication

 

 

 


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