Book cover for October Dreams II by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish
2025 Released
510 Pages
8-12 Hours
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Cemetery Dance PublicationsISBN 9781964780429

A brilliant Halloween anthology of both new and classic novellas, short stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear:

Dean R. Koontz * Stephen Graham Jones * Ray Bradbury * Robert McCammon * Robert Bloch * Whitley Strieber * Stewart O'Nan * Brian James Freeman * Ronald Malfi * Lisa Morton * Kealan Patrick Burke * Glen Hirshberg * James A. Moore * Michael McBride * Gemma Files * Nancy Holder * Tim Waggoner * S.P. Miskowski * Karen Heuler * Ian McDowell * Richard Gavin * M. Rickert * Benjamin Kane Ethridge * Joe R. Lansdale * Matthew Costello * James Newman * Melanie Tem * Roberta Lannes * Harry Shannon * Nate Southard * Nicole Cushing * Ray Garton * Lisa Morton * Al Sarrantonio * Tim Curran * John Skipp * Orrin Grey * Elizabeth Massie * Al Magliochetti * Bev Vincent * Richard Gavin * Ronald Kelly * James Newman * Tina Callaghan * Sèphera Girón * Michael Kelly

Richard Chizmar

Richard Chizmar is the author of New York Times bestselling novels Chasing the Boogeyman, Becoming the Boogeyman, Memorials, and Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting (cowritten with son, W.H. Chizmar), the USA TODAY bestseller Killing the Boogeyman, and coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Times bestselling novella Gwendy’s Button Box, the novel Gwendy’s Final Task, and the solo novella Gwendy’s Magic Feather. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, most recently, the bestselling anthology, The End of The World as We Know It: New Stories of Stephen King’s The Stand. He is the founder and publisher of the specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense, Cemetery Dance. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA’s Board of Trustees award. Chizmar’s work has been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, speaker, panelist, and guest of honor. Follow him on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky: @RichardChizmar, or visit his website at RichardChizmar.com.

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