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Cover of Shock Totem: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, Halloween 2014

Shock Totem: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, Halloween 2014

October 2014

Editor K. Allen Wood
Cover art Mikio Murakami
Publisher Shock Totem Publications
Price $7.99
Pages 204
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  • Special irregular issue of the Shock Totem magazine, and like all of the special issues, this one specializes in a specific holiday.
  • Small sized 6" x 4" paperback.
  • Price and publication date from Amazon.com as of 2015-04-14.
  • "Kore" is presented as a Halloween "recollection", but according to the author in a 2014-12-30 post on his blog, this piece is: ... an autobiographically-inflected story masquerading as a Halloween memoir.... As I [wrote the holiday recollection], though, the story took on a life of its own, inspired by one young boy who found the experience of the Walk a little bit too much. Which is to say, only most of the events in the piece actually happened.
  • "Howling Through the Keyhole" is a series of afterwords in which each short story author describes the origin of their story.
  • "Additional Bios" are short biographies of the non-fiction authors.
  • There are photographic illustrations on pages 4, 24, 40, 76, 98, and 104. The artist is unidentified, and they illustrate nothing in this special issue. While not identified, they are probably by Mikio Murakami.
  • The page count includes both covers, but not the twenty pages of house ads and black pages located at the end of this issue.
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Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
5 Essay Non Fiction Notes from the Editor's Desk (Shock Totem, Holiday Tales #3) K. Allen Wood
9 Short Fiction Fiction Halloween On ... John Boden & Bracken MacLeod
21 Short Fiction Fiction Night in the Forest of Loneliness David G. Blake
25 Short Fiction Fiction Kore John Langan
41 Short Fiction Fiction Out of Field Theory Kevin Lucia
77 Short Fiction Fiction Tricks and Treats Rose Blackthorn
85 Essay Non Fiction Witches and the March of Dimes, and Mike Warnke Babs Boden
89 Short Fiction Fiction Howdy Doody Time Kriscinda Lee Everitt
99 Essay Non Fiction When I Scared Myself Out of Halloween Jeremy Wagner
105 Short Fiction Fiction Before This Night Is Done Barry Lee Dejasu
137 Essay Non Fiction The Mansion Lee Thomas
141 Poem Fiction Allhallowtide (To the Faithless Departed) Sydney Leigh
145 Essay Non Fiction Flay Bells Ring, or How the Horror Filmmaker Stole Christmas Mike Lombardo
151 Short Fiction Fiction The Candle Eaters K. Allen Wood
185 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (Halloween On ...) Bracken MacLeod
185 Essay Non Fiction Howling Through the Keyhole (Shock Totem, Holiday Tales 3) various
186 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (Halloween On ... ) John Boden
187 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (Night in the Forest of Loneliness) David G. Blake
187 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (Out of Field Theory) Kevin Lucia
188 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (Tricks and Treats) Rose Blackthorn
189 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (Howdy Doody Time) Kriscinda Lee Everitt
190 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (Before This Night Is Done) Barry Lee Dejasu
191 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (Allhallowtide (To the Faithless Departed)) Sydney Leigh
192 Essay Non Fiction Afterword (The Candle Eaters) K. Allen Wood
195 Essay Non Fiction Additional Bios (Shock Totem: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, Halloween 2014) uncredited

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Shock Totem: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, Halloween 2014 K. Allen Wood
Cover Art Non Fiction Shock Totem: Holiday Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, Halloween 2014 Mikio Murakami