Marvin Kaye
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| Title | : | The Ultimate Halloween |
| Author | : | Marvin Kaye |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 322 pages |
| Published | : | October 2nd 2001 by iBooks |
| Categories | : | Holiday. Halloween. Horror. Anthologies. Fiction. Short Stories. Fantasy |
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Halloween: The word itself instantly conjures up images of costumed trick-or-treaters, ghosts and ghouls rising from their graves. After the death of her beloved Grandmother Hudson, Rain found herself caught in a In the grand tradition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Anne Rice, The Ultimate Halloween gathers together a collection of new and old, unique and terrifying fantasy and horror stories centering around the holiday known as All Hallows Eve. Here you'll find Al Sarrantonio's "Pumpkin Head," William F. Nolan's "The Halloween Man," and a bevy of other spine-tingling works.So lock the doors, dim the lights, and allow your host for the evening -- editor Marvin Kaye -- to usher you through the darkened streets and haunted forests of the imagination. But be sure to keep your mask on tight -- the creatures of the night are less likely to attack if they think you're one of them....
Contents:
"Auntie Elspeth's Halloween Story, or The Gourd, The Bad, and the Ugly," Esther Freisner
"The Witch Who Hated Halloween," Terry Kaye
"Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out," Darrell Schweitzer
"Miasma," Terry McGarry
"Evening Spirit," Marc Bilgray
"Pumpkin Head," Al Sarrantonio
"Trick or Treat with Jesus," Marilyn Mattie Brahen
"Into the Abyss," R.J. Lewis
"The Theft of the Halloween Pumpkin," Edward D. Hoch
"The Devil's Own," John Gregory Betancourt
"All Souls," Edith Wharton
"Uncle Evil Eye," Carole Buggé
"The Phantom Highwayman," Ron Goulart
"The Unnameable," H.P. Lovecraft
"The Halloween Man," William F. Nolan
"A Matter of Taste," Parke Godwin
"The Banshee's Comb," Herminie T. Kavanagh
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| Original Title: | The Ultimate Halloween |
| ISBN: | 0743423968 (ISBN13: 9780743423960) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.35 From 57 Users | 13 ReviewsJudgment About Books The Ultimate Halloween
BOTTOM LINE: Mixed bag of stories centered around Halloween doings and beings; some old stories, most new, several excellent, some funny, all with a horrific edge. The best IMO, are Al Sarrantonios Pumpkin Head 1982, Edith Whartons All Souls, William Nolans The Halloween Man, 1986, and Parke Godwins A Matter of Taste 2001, plus Edward D. Hochs Nick Velvet story is lots of fun, The Theft of the Halloween Pumpkin 1983. Also includes: John Gregory Betancourt, The Devils Own, 2001Mark Bilgray,Its never too late or too early for Halloween. For those who think Halloween is the best time of year, that its even better than Christmas, that it was high time it was made a national holiday in America, dammit, this book of short stories revolving around the holiday is for them. These stories are, by turns, funny, scary, quirky thought provoking or simply entertaining. However, I would have preferred an inclusion of eroticism or the sexual among these stories. Given the proliferation of
When I started reading the last story I thought, oh some wrote some Darby O'Gill fanfiction haha, no, it's the actually story the movie was based on. I actually have wanted to read that since I was 8. However not just the dialog in the story but the entire thing was written in dialect and I hate reading in dialect. Still interesting to finally read it. Overall, this book of short stories was ok. I liked Pumpkin Head, Halloween Man, and Uncle Evil Eye. Those are probably the only ones I'd reread.
A mixed bag. Some very good stories, some real stinkers. Definitely Read: ALL SOULS by Edith Wharton; THE UNNAMEABLE by HP Lovecraft; PUMPKIN HEAD by Al Sarrantonio
MARVIN KAYE is the author of sixteen novels, including his Dickensian pastiche, The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge, now optioned to be made into a feature film, and his just-completed sequel to Frankenstein, as well as the terrifying Fantastique and Ghosts of Night and Morning; the SF cult classics, The Incredible Umbrella and (coauthored with Parke Godwin) The Masters of Solitude, and the
eh - decent in the Halloweentown, Goosebumps kind of way. Not really scary, not really original. Decent stories:* Auntie Elspeth's Halloween Story or the Gourd, the Bad, and the Ugly (Esther Freisner)* Inter the Abyss (R.J. Lewis)* All Souls (Edith Wharton)* The Halloween Man (William F. Nolan)* A Matter of Taste (Parke Godwin)
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