What October Brings

Halloween, a time for laughing children in white bedsheets and superhero costumes. A time for chocolate candy, and pumpkins, and Trick-or-Treat.

A time for dark things everything to slink out of the shadows and into our lives, reminding those unlucky few that our charades of Halloween cannot erase the centuries of history and pain behind the facade...

What October Brings celebrates the dark traditions of the autumn rituals, of Halloween and Samhain, in homage to the uniquely fascinating fiction of HP Lovecraft. Masters of the short story offer you a "once in a lifetime" Trick-or-Treat experience...

...perhaps your last experience!

The commissioned cover is by acclaimed Italian painter Daniele Serra.

Contents

Paul Dale Anderson :: That Small, Furry, Sharp-toothed Thing

Alan Baxter :: Waters Strangely Clear

Ran Cartwright :: The House on Jimtown Road

Adrian Cole :: No Other God But Me

Storm Constantine :: Down into Silence

Tim Curran :: Spider Wasp

Arinn Dembo :: The Old Man Down the Road

Cody Goodfellow :: The War on Halloween

Andre E. Harewood :: The Immortician

Nancy Holder :: Nyarlahotep Came Down to Georgia

Erica Ruppert :: Summer's End

Brian M. Sammons :: A Night for Masks

Ann K. Schwader :: Inheritance

Darrell Schweitzer :: Uncle's in the Treetops

John Shirley :: Hum—Hurt You. Hum—Hurt You. Hum—Hurt You.

Lucy A. Snyder :: Cosmic Cola

Chet Williamson :: Hell Among the Yearlings