I picked this one up about ten years ago and never really got on with it; not sure why, since I enjoyed the few dips I made into it. Pretty sure I have this still tucked away somewhere.
This is a collection of stories about Halloween interspersed with essays by horror writers about their Halloween memories. There are also essays about Halloween themed fiction and film--Braunbeck's overview of Halloween themed films is a good read.
The stories themselves are a strong selection (and there's only one overlap, the Grant story, with the excellent
Halloween Horrors so you can justify picking up both!).
11 • The Black Pumpkin • (1986) • short story by Dean R. Koontz [as by Dean Koontz]
35 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: A Moonlit Night with Rats • essay by Elizabeth Engstrom
41 • Lantern Marsh • short fiction by Poppy Z. Brite
55 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Nicknames - A Hallowe'en Reminiscence • essay by Rick Hautala
63 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: A Condemned Man • essay by Steve Rasnic Tem
71 • Conversations in a Dead Language • (1989) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
87 • My Favorite Halloween Memory • essay by Gary A. Braunbeck
89 • My Favorite Halloween Memory • essay by Jack Ketchum
91 • Yesterday's Child • (1987) • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
105 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Zombies • essay by Hugh B. Cave
109 • The Whitby Experience • short story by Simon Clark
129 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Halloween Memories • essay by Christopher Golden
133 • In-between: A Halloween poem • poem by Ray Bradbury
135 • Gone • short story by Jack Ketchum
143 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: That Smell in the Air • essay by Alan M. Clark
149 • Yesterday's Witch • (1973) • short story by Gahan Wilson
159 • A Short History of Halloween • essay by Paula Guran
173 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: The Last Halloween • essay by Poppy Z. Brite
177 • Mask Game • short fiction by John Shirley
213 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Criswell Conquers the Alien Elvis-'Nappers • essay by Tom Piccirilli
221 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: 1942 • essay by Jack Cady
227 • Out of the Dark • short story by David B. Silva
243 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Pumpkins and Circumstance • essay by Robert Morrish
249 • Heavy Set • (1968) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Heavy-Set 1964)
261 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Year of the Witch • essay by William F. Nolan
267 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Where Julie Went: A Halloween Memory • essay by Michael Cadnum
271 • Boo • short story by Richard Laymon
293 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: A Halloween Memory, Age Four, Hawaii, 1961 • essay by Douglas Clegg
297 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Fellini and Halloween • essay by Ray Bradbury
299 • Masks • (1985) • short story by Douglas E. Winter
315 • My Favorite Halloween Memory • essay by Stanley Wiater
319 • A Redress for Andromeda • [Dandridge Cycle] • short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan?
333 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: The Santa of Halloween • essay by Richard Laymon
341 • The Circle • (1982) • short story by Lewis Shiner
351 • "First of All, It Was October...": An Overview of Halloween Films • essay by Gary A. Braunbeck
381 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Halloween Dreams • essay by Yvonne Navarro
385 • Pay the Ghost • novelette by Tim Lebbon
413 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Halloween 25 • essay by Kim Newman
423 • Buckets • (1989) • novelette by F. Paul Wilson
447 • My Favorite Halloween Memory • essay by Owl Goingback
451 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Needles and Razor Blades • essay by Dennis Etchison
453 • Orchestra • novelette by Stephen Mark Rainey
479 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Halloween Companion Piece • essay by David B. Silva
483 • Eyes • (1986) • short story by Charles L. Grant
495 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Ugh! Good Grief! R.I.P. Pepe Lopez, Charlie Brown! • essay by Kelly Laymon
503 • My Favorite Halloween Memory • essay by Simon Clark
505 • Deathmask • short story by Dominick Cancilla
517 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Halloween Frights • essay by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
523 • Some Witch's Bed • short story by Michael Marshall Smith
527 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: Cyanide and Pixie Stix • essay by Wayne Allen Sallee
531 • The Trick • (1980) • novelette by Ramsey Campbell
551 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: October! • essay by Ed Gorman
555 • Pork Pie Hat • (1994) • novella by Peter Straub
631 • Trick-or-Read: A Reader's Guide to Halloween Fiction • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz
651 • My Favorite Halloween Memory: A Halloween Memory • essay by Peter Crowther
