October Dreams

The list

1. 01

   The Black Pumpkin

   by Dean Koontz

2. 02

   My Favorite Halloween Memory

   by Elizabeth Engstrom

3. 03

   Lantern Marsh

   by Poppy Z. Brite

4. 04

   My Favorite Halloween Memory

   by Rick Hautala

5. 05

   My Favorite Halloween Memory

   by Steve Rasnic Tem

6. 06

   Conversations in a Dead Language

   by Thomas Ligotti

7. 07

   My Favorite Halloween Memory

   by Gary A. Braunbeck

8. 08

   My Favorite Halloween Memory

   by Jack Ketchum

9. 09

   Yesterday's Child

   by Thomas F. Monteleone

10. 10

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Hugh B. Cave

11. 11

    The Whitby Experience

    by Simon Clark

12. 12

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Christopher Golden

13. 13

    In-between

    poem by Ray Bradbury

14. 14

    Gone

    by Jack Ketchum; first published in this anthology and nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction

15. 15

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Alan M. Clark

16. 16

    Yesterday's Witch

    by Gahan Wilson

17. 17

    A Short History of Halloween

    by Paula Guran

18. 18

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Poppy Z. Brite

19. 19

    Mask Game

    by John Shirley

20. 20

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Tom Piccirilli

21. 21

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Jack Cady

22. 22

    Out of the Dark

    by David B. Silva

23. 23

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Robert Morrish

24. 24

    Heavy Set

    by Ray Bradbury

25. 25

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by William F. Nolan

26. 26

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Michael Cadnum

27. 27

    Boo

    by Richard Laymon

28. 28

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Douglas Clegg

29. 29

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Ray Bradbury

30. 30

    Masks

    by Douglas E. Winter

31. 31

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Stanley Wiater

32. 32

    A Redress for Andromeda

    by Caitlin R. Kiernan

33. 33

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Richard Laymon

34. 34

    The Circle

    by Lewis Shiner

35. 35

    First of All, It was October

    by Gary A. Braunbeck

36. 36

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Yvonne Navarro

37. 37

    Pay the Ghost

    by Tim Lebbon

38. 38

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Kim Newman

39. 39

    Buckets

    by F. Paul Wilson

40. 40

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Owl Goingback

41. 41

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Dennis Etchison

42. 42

    Orchestra

    by Stephen Mark Rainey

43. 43

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by David B. Silva

44. 44

    Eyes

    by Charles L. Grant

45. 45

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Kelly Laymon

46. 46

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Simon Clark

47. 47

    Deathmask

    by Dominick Cancilla

48. 48

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

49. 49

    Some Witch's Bed

    by Michael Marshall Smith

50. 50

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Wayne Allen Sallee

51. 51

    The Trick

    by Ramsey Campbell

52. 52

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Edward Gorman

53. 53

    Pork Pie Hat

    by Peter Straub

54. 54

    Trick-or-Read

    by Stefan Dziemianowicz

55. 55

    My Favorite Halloween Memory

    by Peter Crowther

Facts from the original

• October Dreams is an anthology of Halloween-themed memories and short stories edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish.
• It is also titled October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween.
• The book was published by Cemetery Dance Publications in 2000.
• The US hardcover edition runs 660 pages.
• Jack Ketchum's story "Gone" was first published in this anthology and was nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction.
• The anthology was first published in three different hardcover formats: a trade edition bound in full cloth; a slipcased limited edition of 450 signed and numbered copies bound in leather; and a traycased lettered edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather that includes a separate Halloween Art Portfolio with twelve pages of artwork.
• Illustrators credited are Glenn Chadbourne, Stacy Drum, Jason Van Hollander, Keith Minnion, and Allen Koszowski; the cover artist is Stacy Drum.
• The ISBN is 978-0-451-45895-7 and the OCLC is 50587857.