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Horror NovelsNo. 6716 · The 2026 edition

October Dreams

Step into a world where every October night brings a new dream—haunted, whimsical, or strange. What will you dream tonight?

Book list · 55 titles

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October Dreams is an immersive entertainment experience that blends storytelling, visuals, and sound to explore the mysterious dreams that come with the Halloween season. Each dream sequence offers a unique journey through the spooky and supernatural.

About this

October Dreams is a Halloween-themed anthology of short stories and personal Halloween memories edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish, published by Cemetery Dance Publications in 2000. It collects work from a long list of horror and dark-fantasy authors, including Ray Bradbury, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. Jack Ketchum's story "Gone," which first appeared here, was nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction. The Wikipedia page covers the book's publication details, its three hardcover editions, and a full table of contents.

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.

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