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 -- Night out / Tina Rath -- 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.