This collection of sixteen haunting tales--selected by the editors of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine--calls forth the shivers and suspense that make Halloween a truly blood-red- letter day.

Contents:

• Introduction by Cynthia Manson (editor)
• The Haunted Portrait by Lawrence Treat
• Clancy’s Bride by Terry Bacon
• Kiss the Vampire Goodbye by Alan Ryan
• The Dog by Pauline C. Smith
• House by the Road by Janet O’Daniel
• The Ghost of Monday by Andrew Klavan
• Sitter by Theodore H. Hoffman
• Ghost in the House by George Sumner Albee
• Behold, Kra K’l! The Bohemian Demon of Gardenia Street by Richard F. McGonegal
• Fun and Games at the Whacks Museum by Elliott Capon
• The Theft of the Halloween Pumpkin by Edward D. Hoch
• The Night Watchman by David Braly
• Tony Libra and the Killer’s Calendar by Richard Ciciarelli
• In the Morgue [“The Dimple”] by Dashiell Hammett
• The Black Cat by Lee Somerville
• This Is Death [“In at the Death”] by Donald E. Westlake