Octoberland [Paperback]

Jack Fisher (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 20, 2002

A collection of all-new Halloween horror tales featuring work by Stephen Mark Rainey, Wendy Rathbone, Monica J. O'Rourke, Christian Westerlund, Jeffrey Thomas, James Hartley, Jeremy Shipp, William P. Simmons, Maynard & Sims, Scott Thomas, Denise Weeks, Tracy Morris, Corrine DeWinter, Mark McLaughlin, Trent Jamieson, Bev Vincent, Kenneth Taylor, Charlee Jacob, Lauren Halkon, Tim Arsenault, and Robert Morrish.

Product Details

• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Flesh & Blood Press (July 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1894815505
• ISBN-13: 978-1894815505
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,125,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More disturbing than scary, January 5, 2004

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ZombiKitty "zombikitty" (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Octoberland (Paperback)

Basically, this book is an athology of horror stories that have October or Halloween as their theme. The contributing authors include Jeffrey Thomas, William P. Simmons, Scott Thomas, Charlee Jacob, and Stephen Mark Rainey. To me, all of this implied that there would be a bunch of nice, scary Halloween stories in the book. Ummm...nope, not really. I found most of the stories to be more disturbing than scary. And not Jack Ketchum or Edward Lee disturbing where you are unnerved for quite a while afterwards. Don't get me wrong, there were a few good stories in here (I thought): "Post #153" by Jeffrey Thomas, in which a VFW is surrounded by some familiar apparitions was quite chilling. I also enjoyed "The Halloween Boy" by William P. Simmons, which was about a very strange little boy --- though I would say that it was far more haunting than scary. All in all, though I enjoyed some of the stories in this anthology, I found it overall to be a rather disappointing read.