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• vii • Introduction: The Many Masks of Halloween (The Ultimate Halloween) • (2001) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 3 • Auntie Elspeth's Halloween Story or The Gourd, the Bad, and the Ugly • (2001) • shortstory by Esther M. Friesner (variant of Auntie Elspeth's Halloween Story, or the Gourd, the Bad and the Ugly) [as byEsther Friesner]
• 19 • The Witch Who Hated Halloween • (2001) • novelette by Terry Kaye (I)
• 41 • Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out • [Tom O'Bedlam] • (1977) • shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
• 54 • Miasma • (2001) • shortstory by Terry McGarry
• 64 • Evening Spirit • (2001) • shortstory by Marc Bilgrey
• 73 • Pumpkin Head • (1982) • shortstory by Al Sarrantonio
• 87 • Trick or Treat with Jesus • (2001) • shortstory by Marilyn Mattie Brahen
• 96 • Into the Abyss • (2001) • novelette by R. J. Lewis
• 119 • The Theft of the Halloween Pumpkin • (1983) • shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
• 139 • The Devil's Own • (2001) • shortstory by John Gregory Betancourt
• 146 • All Souls' • (1937) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 175 • Uncle Evil Eye • (2001) • shortstory by Carole Buggé
• 187 • The Phantom Highwayman • (2001) • novelette by Ron Goulart
• 211 • The Unnamable • [Randolph Carter] • (1925) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• 221 • The Halloween Man • (1986) • shortstory by William F. Nolan
• 233 • A Matter of Taste • (1984) • shortstory by Parke Godwin
• 241 • The Banshee's Comb • [Darby O'Gill] • (1903) • novella by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [as byHerminie Kavanagh]
• 319 • Author Biographies (The Ultimate Halloween) • (2001) • essay by uncredited