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Halloween Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Halloween books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Halloween series? Start with "Halloween (By: Curtis Richards)" (1979) and follow publication order through all 72 books.
The complete Halloween reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Halloween (By: Curtis Richards)
1979
Halloween II (By: Jack Martin)
1981
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (By: Jack Martin)
1982
Halloween IV (By: Nicholas Grabowsky)
1988
Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization (By: John Passarella)
2018
Halloween Kills
2021
Halloween IV: The Ultimate Authorized (By: Nicholas Grabowsky)
2022
Halloween Ends (By: Paul Brad Logan)
2022
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
1995
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories
1995
Blood Muse
1995
Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories
1998
Between the Darkness and the Fire
1998
Prom Night
1999
Civil War Fantastic
2000
Vivisections
2003
The Transformers Legends
2004
Cemetery Dance: Issue 52
2005
Brimstone Turnpike
2008
Bits of the Dead
2008
The Best of Cemetery Dance II
2008
Best New Zombie Tales Vol. 2
2010
Love and Rockets
2010
Best New Vampire Tales, Vol. 1
2011
Extreme Zombies
2012
Appalachian Undead
2012
Fear the Abyss
2012
Vampires Don't Sparkle!
2013
Bleed
2013
Piercing the Darkness
2014
Horror 101: The Way Forward
2014
Equilibrium Overturned: A Volume of Apocalyptic Horrors
2014
Dark Discoveries - Issue #28
2014
Dead Harvest
2014
Not Our Kind: Tales ofBelonging
2015
Aghast Vol. 1: A Journal of the Darkly Fantastic
2015
Flesh Like Smoke
2015
The Beauty of Death
2016
Scary Out There
2016
Never Fear - The Tarot
2016
Never Fear - The Apocalypse
2017
Occult Detective Quarterly #2
2017
Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 2
2017
LampLight Volume 4
2017
Red Room Issue 1
2017
C.H.U.D. Lives!
2018
Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 3
2018
Fantastic Tales of Terror
2018
Ashes and Entropy
2018
Tales From the Old Black Ambulance
2019
Shallow Waters Vol.1: A Flash Fiction Anthology
2019
PREHISTORIC
2019
The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias
2019
Tales of the Lost, Volume 1
2019
The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre
2020
Anathemas
2020
Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 5
2020
Campfire Macabre
2020
Turning the Tied
2021
Under Twin Suns
2021
99 Tiny Terrors
2021
Voices in the Dark
2022
Writing Poetry in the Dark
2022
Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary
2022
Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence
2023
The Horror Zine's Book of Monster Stories
2024
CHM #45 March 2024
2024
Playlist of the Damned
2024
Heartwood
2024
You're Not Alone in the Dark
2024
All Roads Lead to Hell
2025
Chthonic Matter Quarterly: Summer 2025
2025
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