Murder for Halloween

Michele B. Slung Michelle Slung Evan Hunter Steven Saylor Ellery Queen Peter Lovesey Edward D. Hoch August Derleth Marcia Muller Edgar Allan Poe James Grady Robert Bloch Michael Z. Lewin Gahan Wilson Bram Stoker Judith Garner Dorothy Cannell Talmage Powell Anthony Boucher Peter Straub First published 1994

About this book

Monsters / Ed McBain -- The lemures / Steven Saylor -- The adventure of the dead cat / Ellery Queen -- The odstock curse / Peter Lovesey -- The theft of the Halloween pumpkin / Edward D. Hoch -- Hallowe'en for Mr. Faulkner / August Derleth -- Deceptions / Marcia Muller -- Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Omjagod / James Grady -- The cloak / Robert Bloch -- What a woman wants / Michael Z. Lewin -- Yesterday's witch / Gahan Wilson -- Walpurgis night / Bram Stoker -- Trick or treat / Judith Garner -- One night at a time / Dorothy Cannell -- Night of the goblin / Talmage Powell -- Trick-or-treat / Anthony Boucher -- Pork pie hat / Peter Straub.

Subjects

  • american detective and mystery stories
  • cats
  • children's fiction
  • detective and mystery stories
  • fiction
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • first-person narrative
  • gallows
  • halloween
  • horror fiction
  • self-hatred
  • short story
  • unreliable narrators