# October Dreams

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{{Short description|2000 anthology edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish}}
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| author = Edited by [Richard Chizmar](/source/Richard_Chizmar) and Robert Morrish
| illustrator = [Glenn Chadbourne](/source/Glenn_Chadbourne), Stacy Drum, [Jason Van Hollander](/source/Jason_Van_Hollander), Keith Minnion, and Allen Koszowski
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| language = English
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| publisher = [Cemetery Dance Publications](/source/Cemetery_Dance_Publications)
| release_date = 2000
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'''''October Dreams''''' (also titled '''''October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween''''')  is an anthology of [Halloween](/source/Halloween)-themed memories and short stories edited by [Richard Chizmar](/source/Richard_Chizmar) and Robert Morrish. [Jack Ketchum](/source/Jack_Ketchum)'s "Gone" (first published in this anthology) was nominated for the 2000 [Bram Stoker Award](/source/Bram_Stoker_Award) for [Best Short Fiction](/source/Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Best_Short_Fiction).

==Editions==
This anthology was first published by [Cemetery Dance Publications](/source/Cemetery_Dance_Publications) in three different hardcover formats:
* "Trade Edition" bound in full cloth
* "Slipcased Limited Edition" of 450 signed and numbered copies bound in leather
* "Traycased Lettered Edition" of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather. This version includes a separate, specially-commissioned Halloween Art Portfolio, featuring twelve pages of artwork.

==Contents==
* "The Black Pumpkin" by [Dean Koontz](/source/Dean_Koontz)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Elizabeth Engstrom](/source/Elizabeth_Engstrom)
* "Lantern Marsh" by [Poppy Z. Brite](/source/Poppy_Z._Brite)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Rick Hautala](/source/Rick_Hautala)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Steve Rasnic Tem](/source/Steve_Rasnic_Tem)
* "Conversations in a Dead Language" by [Thomas Ligotti](/source/Thomas_Ligotti)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Gary A. Braunbeck](/source/Gary_A._Braunbeck)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Jack Ketchum](/source/Jack_Ketchum)
* "Yesterday's Child" by [Thomas F. Monteleone](/source/Thomas_F._Monteleone)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Hugh B. Cave](/source/Hugh_B._Cave)
* "The Whitby Experience" by [Simon Clark](/source/Simon_Clark_(novelist))
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Christopher Golden](/source/Christopher_Golden)
* "In-between" a poem by [Ray Bradbury](/source/Ray_Bradbury)
* "Gone" by [Jack Ketchum](/source/Jack_Ketchum)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Alan M. Clark](/source/Alan_M._Clark)
* "Yesterday's Witch" by [Gahan Wilson](/source/Gahan_Wilson)
* "A Short History of Halloween" by [Paula Guran](/source/Paula_Guran)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Poppy Z. Brite](/source/Poppy_Z._Brite)
* "Mask Game" by [John Shirley](/source/John_Shirley)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Tom Piccirilli](/source/Tom_Piccirilli)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Jack Cady](/source/Jack_Cady)
* "Out of the Dark" by David B. Silva
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Robert Morrish
* "Heavy Set" by [Ray Bradbury](/source/Ray_Bradbury)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [William F. Nolan](/source/William_F._Nolan)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Michael Cadnum](/source/Michael_Cadnum)
* "Boo" by [Richard Laymon](/source/Richard_Laymon)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Douglas Clegg](/source/Douglas_Clegg)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Ray Bradbury](/source/Ray_Bradbury)
* "Masks" by [Douglas E. Winter](/source/Douglas_E._Winter)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Stanley Wiater
* "A Redress for Andromeda" by [Caitlin R. Kiernan](/source/Caitlin_R._Kiernan)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Richard Laymon](/source/Richard_Laymon)
* "The Circle" by [Lewis Shiner](/source/Lewis_Shiner)
* "First of All, It was October" by [Gary A. Braunbeck](/source/Gary_A._Braunbeck)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Yvonne Navarro](/source/Yvonne_Navarro)
* "Pay the Ghost" by [Tim Lebbon](/source/Tim_Lebbon)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Kim Newman](/source/Kim_Newman)
* "Buckets" by [F. Paul Wilson](/source/F._Paul_Wilson)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Owl Goingback](/source/Owl_Goingback)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Dennis Etchison](/source/Dennis_Etchison)
* "Orchestra" by Stephen Mark Rainey
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by David B. Silva
* "Eyes" by [Charles L. Grant](/source/Charles_L._Grant)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Kelly Laymon
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Simon Clark](/source/Simon_Clark_(novelist))
* "Deathmask" by Dominick Cancilla
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Kristine Kathryn Rusch](/source/Kristine_Kathryn_Rusch)
* "Some Witch's Bed" by [Michael Marshall Smith](/source/Michael_Marshall_Smith)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by Wayne Allen Sallee
* "The Trick" by [Ramsey Campbell](/source/Ramsey_Campbell)
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Edward Gorman](/source/Edward_Gorman)
* "Pork Pie Hat" by [Peter Straub](/source/Peter_Straub)
* "Trick-or-Read" by Stefan Dziemianowicz
* "My Favorite Halloween Memory" by [Peter Crowther](/source/Peter_Crowther)

==See also==
* [Bibliography of Halloween](/source/Bibliography_of_Halloween)

==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.cemeterydance.com/sh/chizmar04.html}}

Category:2000 anthologies
Category:Horror anthologies
Category:Halloween fiction
Category:Cemetery Dance Publications books

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