Mister October - An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala

Featuring over 45 individual contributors, almost 800 pages, over 240k words, original Clive Barker artwork, over 30 illustrations and so much content they had to put it into two volumes.

Christopher Golden – “On March 21st, 2013, I received a phone call from Holly Newstein telling me that her husband, Rick Hautala, had suffered a massive heart attack.  That piece of information shocked me into a surreal sort of panic, so much so that at first I could not make the leap to the next thing she said…that he had died.  It seemed impossible.  Rick had been such a good friend, such a consistent and stable force in my life, that the idea of him being so suddenly removed from this world…I just couldn’t make sense of it.

This isn’t the place for me to put my grief on display.  Suffice it to say that Rick’s passing hit me hard.  Not a day goes by that I do not feel the pain of his absence.

I have no doubt that readers will treasure this two-volume set.  It is my hope that as you read, you will ruminate a little bit about the man for whom we all have come together within these pages.  And I hope you’ll urge others to pick up their own copies of Mister October as well.”

Please note that ALL contributors have signed the limited editions - everyone, both volumes I and II

Volume I Contributors:

• Neil Gaiman – FEEDERS AND EATERS
• Graham Joyce – UNDER THE PYLON
• Matthew Costello – A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR
• Michael Marshall Smith – HELL HATH ENLARGED HERSELF
• Chet Williamson – FIGURES IN RAIN
• Elizabeth Massie – AS YOU HAVE MADE US
• Peter Crowther – THOUGHTFUL BREATHS
• Matti Hautala – NEVER BACK AGAIN
• Mark Morris – A GIRL, SITTING
• Richard Chizmar – BLOOD BROTHERS
• Stephen R. Bissette – LITTLE BROTHERS—PORTFOLIO
• Joe R. Lansdale – TIGHT LITTLE STITCHES IN A DEAD MAN’S BACK
• Yvonne Navarro – CRAVING
• José R. Nieto – lXCHEL’S TEARS
• Duane Swierczynski – LIFE DURING DEATH
• Gary A. Braunbeck – AFTER THE ELEPHANT BALLET
• Craig Shaw Gardner – OVERNIGHT GUEST
• Jack M. Haringa – SPRINGFIELD REPEATER
• Tom Piccirilli – CONJURER—BOOK I: THE GRIEVE
• F. Paul Wilson – THE YEAR THE MUSIC DIED
• Jonathan Maberry – PROPERTY CONDEMNED—A Story of Pine Deep
• John M. McIlveen – PLAYING THE HUDDYS
• Weston Ochse – CRASHING DOWN
• Glenn Chadbourne
• Morbideus W. Goodell

Volume II Contributors:

• Clive Barker – TOM REQUIEM
• Peter Straub – LITTLE RED’S TANGO
• Jeff Strand – HOLOGRAM SKULL COVER
• Thomas F. Monteleone – LUX ET VERITAS
• J. F. Gonzalez – DEVOTION
• Stephen R. Bissette – INN CLEANING
• Christopher Golden – BREATHE MY NAME
• Lucy A. Snyder – MAGDALA AMYGDALA
• Sarah Pinborough – THE BOHEMIAN OF THE ARBAT
• Brian Keene – JOHNSTOWN
• Kevin J. Anderson – ROAD KILL (A Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. story)
• Tim Lebbon – JUST BREATHE
• Nancy A. Collins – CATFISH GAL BLUES
• Kim Newman – ILLIMITABLE DOMINION
• Sarah Langan – INDEPENDENCE DAY
• Rio Youers – THE GHOST OF LILLIAN BLISS
• Jack Ketchum – HOTLINE
• John Skipp – THE LIGHT OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
• James A. Moore – WAR STORIES
• Amber Benson – IT’S…, Nate Kenyon – THE DREAMCATCHER
• Holly Newstein – KRISTALL TAG
• Rick Hautala – GHOST TRAP
• Cortney Skinner
• Glenn Chadbourne

Limited edition:

• two volume set is an oversewn, bonded leather hardcover two volume edition, that includes 60lb natural interior paper
• foil stamped casing, ribbon
• 100 lb Litho Label Gloss slip cover
• encased in a leatherette slipcase, which includes both volumes I and II
• All of the  contributors have autographed the two volume limited edition set.  A total of 48 signatures!
• This is a numbered two volume package set with only 80 signed and numbered copies being produced.  
• The limited editions are only sold in a two volume set.  They will not be sold separately.