Halloween Stories

Ray Bradbury is a maste of science fiction, fantasy and horor. His brand of horror tends towards dark fantasy and is more incline to make yuou think than to make you shudder but, for me, he is Halloween Stories Personified.

He has several books set in the month of October -- on or near Halloween. Perhaps his most fameous is Something Wicked This Way Comes, but all of them make for good reading.

Earthling Publications is one of the small presses that the horror genre is known for.

Each year, Earthling's publisher Paul Miller prints a special Halloween book to commemorate his favorite holiday. The books in this series features "...classic terrors such as monsters and haunted houses rather than psychological suspense or real-life horrors"

The series started with a severely limited edition run of Mr. Dark's Carnival -- only 15 copies were printed. Because of the rarity, this edition is #0 and the following editions, starting with Blood Red by James Moore are given numbers.

Many of the books in this series are already sold out but luckily, they've been republished -- only the editions available from Amazon will be listed below. However, I'll feature the original book covers from Earthling Publication's Halloween series below the book list.

The Series Order:

• #0 Mr. Dark's Carnival (Halloween 2004)
  
• #1 Blood Red (Halloween 2005)
  
• #2 The Unblemished (Halloween 2006)
  
• #3 The Haunted Forest Tour (Halloween 2007)
  
• #4 Moontown (Halloween 2008)
  
• #5 October Dark (Halloween 2010)
  
• #6 By Wizard Oak (Halloween 2011)
  
• #7 Blood Harvest (Halloween 2011)
  

Jonathan Maberry won a Stoker Award for the Superior Achievement in a First Novel for the first novel in this trilogy. Read these three books and you'll never look at Halloween the same way again.

The Pine Deep Trilogy Series Order:

• #1 Ghost Road Blues
  
• #2 Dead Man's Song
  
• #3 Bad Moon Rising
  

Al Sarrantonio has been working and re-working on this Orangefield Cycle for many years now.

Most people know that Orangefield, N.Y. , is the Halloween capital of America. What they don't know is that many years ago the townsfolk committed a grievous sin which lead the way for the rise of Samhain.

The Orangefield Cycle (revised edition):

• #1 Horrorween
  
• #2 Hallows Eve
  
• #3 Halloweenland