READ BY VARIOUS NARRATORS Here are sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited 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, this collection also offers terrifying and mind-bending explorations of related holidays like All Souls’ Day, Día de los Muertos, and Devil’s Night. Authors included are Kelley Armstrong, Pat Cadigan, Elise Forier Edie, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Eric J. Guignard, Stephen Graham Jones, Kate Jonez, Paul Kane, John Langan, John R. Little, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire (a.k.a. Mira Grant), S. P. Miskowski, Garth Nix, and Joanna Parypinski. ELLEN DATLOW has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for overthirty- five years. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than ninety anthologies, including The Best Horror of the Year series, Fearful Symmetries, The Doll Collection, The Monstrous,and Black Feathers. A multiple award winner for her work, Datlow is a recipient of the Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” and has been honored with Life Achievement Awards by both the Horror Writers Association and the World Fantasy Convention. She lives in New York. LISA MORTON is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, Bram Stoker Award–winning prose writer, editor, and Halloween expert whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” Read by Gabra Zackman, Erin Spencer, James Patrick Cronin, Michael Kramer, Gerard Doyle, Kevin Kenerly, Amy Landon, Carrington MacDuffie, Andrew Eiden, Tom Taylorson, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Alana Kerr Collins, Luis Moreno, Keith Szarabajka, Emily Sutton-Smith, Malcolm Hillgartner, and Hillary Huber Running Time: 11½ Hours • Unabridged 햯 2017 by BLACKSTONE AUDIO, INC. / © 2017 by Horror Writers Association. Introduction © 2017 by Lisa Morton. “With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds” by Seanan McGuire © 2017 by Seanan McGuire. “Dirtmouth” by Stephen Graham Jones © 2017 by Stephen Graham Jones. “A Small Taste of the Old Country” by Jonathan Maberry © 2017 by Jonathan Maberry. “Wick’s End” by Joanna Parypinski © 2017 by Joanna Parypinski. “The Seventeen-Year Itch” by Garth Nix © 2017 by Garth Nix. “A Flicker of Light on Devil’s Night” by Kate Jonez © 2017 by Kate Jonez. “Witch Hazel” by Jeffrey Ford © 2017 by Jeffrey Ford. “Nos Galen Gaeaf” by Kelley Armstrong © 2017 by Kelley Armstrong. “We’re Never Inviting Amber Again” by S. P. Miskowski © 2017 by S. P. Miskowski. “Sisters” by Brian Evenson © 2017 by Brian Evenson. “All through the Night” by Elise Forier Edie © 2017 by Elise Forier Edie. “A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds” by Eric J. Guignard © 2017 by Eric J. Guignard. “The Turn” by Paul Kane © 2017 by Paul Kane. “Jack” by Pat Cadigan © 2017 by Pat Cadigan. “Lost in the Dark” by John Langan © 2017 by John Langan. “The First Lunar Halloween” by John R. Little © 2017 by John R. Little. All stories used by permission of the authors / Recorded by arrangement with Vintage Anchor Publishing, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC / Digitally mastered / All rights reserved. www.BlackstoneLibrary.com 36457 ISBN 978-1-5384-9000-6 Playaway pre-loaded audiobooks are the best way to listen, unplugged and uninterrupted. WWW.PLAYAWAY.COM © 2017 Playaway. Patented. All rights reserved. Designed in Ohio. Made in China. 9 781538 490006.