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The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories: Terrifying Tales Set On the Scariest Night of the Year! (2018)

Edited by Stephen Jones

(a) Skyhorse Publishing/A Herman Graf Book,
USA • tp • $14.99
ISBN 978-1-5107-3643-6
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories: Terrifying Tales Set On the Scariest Night of the Year! (2018)

Twenty-six terrifying tales set on the scariest night of the year! Treat yourself to some very tricky stories! Hallowe’en . . . All Hallows’ Eve . . . Samhain . . . Día de Muertos . . . the Day the Dead Come Back . . . When the barriers between the worlds are at their weakest, and ghosts and grisly things can cross over into our existence, then for a short period each year, the natural becomes the supernatural, and nobody is safe from their most intimate and terrifying fears. The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories brings you a dark feast of frightening fiction by some of the most successful and respected and horror writers working today, including Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Helen Marshall, Richard Christian Matheson, Robert Shearman, Robert Silverberg, Angela Slatter, Steve Rasnic Tem, and many more, along with a very special contribution by award-winning poet Jane Yolen. Here you will encounter witches, ghosts, monsters, psychos, demonic nuns, and even Death himself in this spooky selection of stories set on the night when evil walks the earth . . .

INTRODUCTION: WHEN CHURCHYARDS YAWN Stephen Jones
OCTOBER IN THE CHAIR Neil Gaiman
REFLECTIONS IN BLACK Steve Rasnic Tem
THE HALLOWEEN MONSTER Alison Littlewood
THE PHÉNAKISTICOPE OF DECAY James Ebersole
MEMORIES OF DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS Nancy Kilpatrick
FRAGILE MASKS Richard Gavin
BONE FIRE Storm Constantine
QUEEN OF THE HUNT Adrian Cole
THE OCTOBER WIDOW Angela Slatter
BEFORE THE PARADE PASSES BY Marie O’Regan
HER FACE Ramsey Campbell
A MAN TOTALLY ALONE Robert Hood
BLEED Richard Christian Matheson
THE ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN PARTY APP Lisa Morton
THE FOLDING MAN Joe R. Lansdale
I WAIT FOR YOU Eygló Karlsdóttir
DUST UPON A PAPER EYE Cate Gardner
NOT OUR BROTHER Robert Silverberg
THE SCARIEST THING IN THE WORLD Michael Marshall Smith
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST Sharon Gosling
THE BEAUTIFUL FEAST OF THE VALLEY Stephen Gallagher
IN THE YEAR OF OMENS Helen Marshall
THE MILLENNIAL’S GUIDE TO DEATH Scott Bradfield
WHITE MARE Thana Niveau
PUMPKIN KIDS Robert Shearman
LANTERN JACK Christopher Fowler
HALLOWEEN TREATS Jane Yolen
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  
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Reviews

  • “This book is perfect for lovers of the unusual, not just on All Hallow’s Eve, but any time of the year really.”— Trevor Kennedy
    PHANTASMAGORIA MAGAZINE, Issue #10, Summer 2019
  • “The veteran anthologist Steve Jones has just brought out The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories . . . You may be amazed how many variations Halloween conjures up, and how many surprises it springs.”— Ramsey Campbell
    BIG ISSUE NORTH No.1259, November 4, 2018
  • “Packs twenty-six stories into nearly 500 pages, so every reader is sure to find new seasonal favorites in this “mammoth book.”— Lisa Morton
    THE READERS’ ADVISORY GUIDE TO HORROR, October 31, 2018
  • “Wonderful.”— John DeNardo
    KIRKUS, October 24 2018