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Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, co-edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.

In addition to stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween movies, and trick or treating in the future, Haunted Nights also offers terrifying and mind-bending explorations of related holidays like All Souls' Day, Dia de los Muertos, and Devil's Night.

Table of Contents:

• "With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfbane Seeds" by Seanan McGuire
• "Dirtmouth" by Stephen Graham Jones"
• "A Small Taste of the Old Countr" by Jonathan Maberry
• "Wick's End" by Joanna Parypinski
• "The Seventeen Year Itch" by Garth Nix
• "A Flicker of Light on Devil's Night" by Kate Jonez
• "Witch-Hazel" by Jeffrey Ford
• "Nos Galen Gaeaf" by Kelley Armstrong
• "We're Never Inviting Amber Again" by S. P. Miskowski
• "Sisters" by Brian Evenson
• "All Through the Night" by Elise Forier Edie
• "A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds" by Eric J. Guignard
• "The Turn" by Paul Kane
• "Jack" by Pat Cadigan
• "Lost in the Dark" by John Langan
• "The First Lunar Halloween" by John R. Little

In 1863, a young woman’s heritage is stolen from her, and she lays a terrible curse on the City of Angels. Now, in the 21st century, a teenaged girl with lethal psychic abilities arrives in Los Angeles, ready to ally herself with vengeful spirits of the past to feed her insatiable appetite for destruction. Only Gwen Michaelson, a natural healer afraid of her gifts, and Sam West, a broken amnesiac who was once a brilliant historian, stand against the psychotic and increasingly powerful May Blanco. Will Gwen be able to use her skills to restore Sam’s mind, which holds the key to the mystery of May’s unearthly companion? Together, can they find a way to stop May before she unleashes a wave of death?

Malediction is a novel about magic and darkness, power and lust, folklore versus fact, love against rage, and the secret history of Los Angeles.

In these pages Bram Stoker Award-winner Lisa Morton reinvents the dark stars you grew up watching: Frankenstein, Dracula, Mr. Hyde, the Phantom, the Hunchback... all the silent ones and the first to find their voices are here, and they're even presented in roughly the order in which they first appeared on a silver screen.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Monsters of L.A.)
• Frankenstein
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
• The Phantom
• The Hunchback
• Dracula
• The Bride
• The Mummy
• The Invisible Woman
• The Mad Scientist
• The Werewolf
• The Haunted House
• Cat People
• The Creature
• The Alien
• Kaiju (Giant Monster)
• The Devil
• The Slasher
• The Killer Clown
• The Urban Legend
• The Zombie

Night Terrors and Other Tales is the first major collection to gather together twenty of Lisa Morton's finest short stories (chosen by the author herself). During a career that has spanned more than three decades, she has produced work that has been hailed as "consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening" (the American Library Association's Readers Advisory Guide to Horror).

If you've never encountered Lisa Morton's work before, you'll find out why Famous Monsters called her "one of the best writers in dark fiction today." If you're already a fan, this collection will offer up a chance to revisit these acclaimed and award-winning stories.

Table of Contents:

• 11 - Tested
• 20 - Poppi's Monster
• 31 - Blood for the American People
• 44 - Joe and Abel in the Field of Rest
• 56 - Sparks Fly Upward
• 71 - Love Eats
• 81 - The New War
• 94 - Black Mill Cove
• 109 - The Utimate Halloween Party App
• 123 - The Resurrection Policy
• 136 - Feel the Noise
• 147 - The True Worth of Orthography
• 160 - Erasure
• 169 - The Rich Are Different
• 191 - Pound Rots in Fragrant Harbour
• 207 - The End
• 212 - The Secret Engravings
• 229 - A Girl's Life
• 242 - Trigger Fate
• 253 - LaRue's Dime Museum
• 270 - Night Terrors

Theatre director Beth Ortiz is the newest resident of The Castle, an exclusive Los Angeles artists' community. Anxious actors aren't all Beth has to worry about in her new space, however, for The Castle has a secret history of madness and murder, and a celebrity artist who develops a strange fixation on Beth.

And The Castle also happens to be haunted.

By some particularly uneasy spirits.

On one magical night of the year--when the breeze is scented with dead leaves and pumpkin, when the days have grown shorter and winter's first touch prickles your skin--the barrier between worlds is at its thinnest, and dark magic abounds. Whether it's the legendary trickster Jack about to acquire his first lantern, a teenage girl beginning to discover her own alluring power, or a fallen angel seeking redemption, Halloween's sinister spell enchants all.

The four novellas and ten short stories in this collection from Lisa Morton, one of the world's leading authorities on Halloween, bring the ancient festival's beauty and terror to vivid life.

Table of Contents:

• Trick or Treating with Lisa Morton - essay by Nancy Holder
• The Devil Came to Mamie's on Hallowe'en
• The Samhanach
• Summer's End
• Sexy Pirate Girl
• The Maze - (2015)
• Finding Ulalume
• Tam Lane
• The Enchanted Forest
• Pumpkin Rex
• Alive-Oh
• The Halloween Collector
• The Devil's Birthday
• The Legend of Halloween Jack
• Hell Manor