Conversations in a dead language / Thomas Ligotti --
Monsters / Stewart O'Nan --
The Halloween man / William F. Nolan --
The young tamlane / Sir Walter Scott --
Pork pie hat / Peter Straub --
Three doors / Norman Partridge --
Auntie Elspeth's Halloween story / Esther M. Friesner --
Struwwelpeter / Glen Hirshberg --
Hallowe'en in a suburb / H.P. Lovecraft --
On the reef / Caitlin R. Kiernan --
The sticks / Charlee Jacob --
Riding bitch / K.W. Jeter --
Memories of El dia de los muertos / Nancy Kilpatrick --
Halloween Street / Steve Rasnic Tem --
Tricks & treats: one night on Halloween Street / Steve Rasnic Tem --
Memories / Peter Crowther --
Ulalume: a ballad / Edgar Allan Poe --
Mask game / John Shirley --
By the book / Nancy Holder --
Hornets / Al Sarrantonio --
Pranks / Nina Kiriki Hoffman --
Pumpkin night / Gary McMahon --
The universal soldier / Charles de Lint --
One thin dime / Stewart Moore --
Man-size in marble / E. Nesbit --
The great pumpkin arrives at last / Sarah Langan --
Sugar skulls / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro --
On a dark October / Joe R. Lansdale --
The vow on Halloween / Lyllian Huntley Harris --
The October game / Ray Bradbury --
The November game / F. Paul Wilson --
Tessellations / Gary Braunbeck.