ALSO EDITED BY ELLEN DATLOW
After (with Terri Windling)
Alien Sex
The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People (with Terri Windling)
The Best Horror of the Year, Volumes 19
Black Feathers
Black Heart, Ivory Bones (with Terri Windling)
Black Swan, White Raven (with Terri Windling)
Black Thorn, White Rose (with Terri Windling)
Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism
Blood and Other Cravings
Children of Lovecraft
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (with Terri Windling)
The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen
The Dark: New Ghost Stories
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Doll Collection
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (with Terri Windling)
Fearful Symmetries
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (with Terri Windling)
Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas)
Hauntings
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Lethal Kisses
Little Deaths
Lovecraft Unbound
Lovecrafts Monsters
The Monstrous
Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
Nebula Awards Showcase 2009
Nightmare Carnival
Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
Omni Best Science Fiction, Volumes 13
Omni Book of Science Fiction, Volumes 17
Omni Visions, Volumes 1 and 2
Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Queen Victorias Book of Spells (with Terri Windling)
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (with Terri Windling)
Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (with Terri Windling)
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (with Terri Windling)
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (with Terri Windling)
Snow White, Blood Red (with Terri Windling)
Supernatural Noir
Swan Sister (with Terri Windling)
Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories
Teeth: Vampire Tales (with Terri Windling)
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology
Trolls-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales (with Terri Windling)
Twists of the Tale
Vanishing Acts
A Whisper of Blood
A Wolf at the Door (with Terri Windling)
The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, Volumes 121 (with Terri Windling, Gavin J. Grant, and Kelly Link)
ALSO BY LISA MORTON
By Insanity of Reason (with John R. Little)
The Castle of Los Angeles
Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Morton
The Devils Birthday
The Free Way
Hell Manor
The Lucid Dreaming
Malediction
Midnight Walk (as editor)
Monsters of L.A.
Netherworld
The Samhanach
Smog
Summers End
Wild Girls
Zombie Apocalypse!: Washington Deceased
Nonfiction Books
The Cinema of Tsui Hark
Ghosts: A Haunted History
A Halloween Anthology: Literary and Historical Sources Over the Centuries
The Halloween Encyclopedia
Savage Detours: The Life and Work of Ann Savage (with Kent Adamson)
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times (with Rocky Wood and Greg Chapman)
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Copyright2017by Horror Writers Association
Introduction copyright2017by Lisa Morton
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Names: Datlow, Ellen. | Morton, Lisa, 1958 editor.
Title: Haunted Nights : a Horror Writers Association anthology / edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton.
Description: First edition. | New York : Anchor, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017001402 (print) | LCCN 2017020359 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101973837 (paperback) | ISBN 9781101973844 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : HalloweenFiction. | Horror tales, American. | BISAC : FICTION / Horror. | FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors). | FICTION / Occult & Supernatural.
Classification: LCC PS 648. H 22 H 366 2017 (print) | LCC PS 648. H 22 (ebook) | DDC 813/.0873808dc23
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Contents
With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds
Seanan McGuire
Dirtmouth
Stephen Graham Jones
A Small Taste of the Old Country
Jonathan Maberry
Wicks End
Joanna Parypinski
The Seventeen-Year Itch
Garth Nix
A Flicker of Light on Devils Night
Kate Jonez
Witch Hazel
Jeffrey Ford
Nos Galan Gaeaf
Kelley Armstrong
Were Never Inviting Amber Again
S. P. Miskowski
Sisters
Brian Evenson
All Through the Night
Elise Forier Edie
A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds
Eric J. Guignard
The Turn
Paul Kane
Jack
Pat Cadigan
Lost in the Dark
John Langan
The First Lunar Halloween
John R. Little
Introduction
Lisa Morton
W HEN WE THINK of Halloweenespecially if were Americans, where the holiday was really (re-)created in its modern, still-recognizable formwe probably go first to memories of costumes and masks, trick or treat, jack-o-lanterns and haunted houses, horror movies on television, and autumn in the air. Those of us who persist in revering the printed word may revisit beloved books like Ray Bradburys