The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories: Terrifying Tales Set on the Scariest Night of the Year!
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Special thanks to Herman Graf, Kim Lim, Cat Mihos, Rebecca Eskildsen (Writers House Literary Agency), and Sarah Gerton (Curtis Brown, Ltd.) for their help with compiling this volume.
“Introduction: When Churchyards Yawn” copyright © Stephen Jones 2018.
“October in the Chair” copyright © Neil Gaiman 2002. Originally published in Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.
“Reflections in Black” copyright © Steve Rasnic Tem 2018.
“The Halloween Monster” copyright © Alison Littlewood 2018.
“The Phénakisticope of Decay” copyright © James Ebersole 2018.
“Memories of Día de los Muertos” copyright © Nancy Kilpatrick 1993. Originally published in Dead of Night Magazine #8. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Fragile Masks” copyright © Richard Gavin 2018.
“Bone Fire” copyright © Storm Constantine 2018.
“Queen of the Hunt” copyright © Adrian Cole 2018.
“The October Widow” copyright © Angela Slatter 2014. Originally published in The Spectral Book of Horror Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Before the Parade Passes By” copyright © Marie O’Regan 2018.
“Her Face” copyright © Ramsey Campbell 2015. Originally published in The Burning Maiden 2: Where Literature Meets the Supernatural. Reprinted by permission of the author. Punctuation and style follow the author’s preferred usage.
“A Man Totally Alone” copyright © Robert Hood 2018.
“Bleed” copyright © Richard Christian Matheson 1995. Originally published in Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book of Horror. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Ultimate Halloween Party App” copyright © Lisa Morton 2018.
“The Folding Man” copyright © Joe R. Lansdale 2010. Originally published in Haunted Legends. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“I Wait For You” copyright © Eygló Karlsdóttir 2018.
“Dust upon a Paper Eye” copyright © Cate Gardner 2018.
“Not Our Brother” copyright © Agberg, Ltd. 1982. Originally published in Rod Serling’s the Twilight Zone Magazine, July 1982. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Scariest Thing in the World” copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 2018.
“The Nature of the Beast” copyright © Sharon Gosling 2018.
“The Beautiful Feast of the Valley” copyright © Stephen Gallagher 2018.
“In the Year of Omens” copyright © Helen Marshall 2014. Originally published in Fearful Symmetries. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Millennial’s Guide to Death” copyright © Scott Bradfield 2018.
“White Mare” copyright © Thana Niveau 2018.
“Pumpkin Kids” copyright © Robert Shearman 2018.
“Lantern Jack” copyright © Christopher Fowler 2011. Originally published in Red Gloves I: Devilry—The London Horrors. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Halloween Treats” copyright © Jane Yolen 2018. Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Stephen Jones lives in London, England. A Hugo Award nominee, he is the winner of four World Fantasy Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, five Bram Stoker Awards, twenty-one British Fantasy Awards, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association. One of Britain’s most acclaimed horror and dark fantasy writers and editors, he has more than 145 books to his credit, including The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History, the film books of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Stardust, The Essential Monster Movie Guide and The Hellraiser Chronicles; the nonfiction studies Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books (both with Kim Newman); the single-author collections Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales by H. P. Lovecraft, The Complete Chronicles of Conan and Conan’s Brethren by Robert E. Howard, and Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M. R. James; plus such anthologies as Horrorology: The Lexicon of Fear, Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, A Book of Horrors, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, The Lovecraft Squad and Zombie Apocalypse! series, and twenty-nine volumes of Best New Horror. You can visit his web site at www.stephenjoneseditor.com or follow him on Facebook at “Stephen Jones-Editor.”