Happy Halloween!

If, November 1959

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Tie-Ins: Halloween

It would take a scientist to explain the branches of reboots and canon for the Halloween movies.  You can ignore most of that since the only good Halloween movie, Part III, is a standalone.  All of the below easily go for 3 figures online.

The novelizations:

1979: Halloween by Curtis Richards
1981: Halloween II by Jack Martin (Dennis Etchison)
1983: Halloween III: Season of the Witch by Jack Martin
1988: Halloween IV by Nicholas Grabowsky
2018: Halloween by John Passarella

Young adult tie-ins by Kelly O'Rourke:

1997: The Scream Factory
1997: The Old Myers Place
1998: The Mad House

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The Deathstone by Ken Eulo

The occult nightmares of Chandal Knight are long past and she has spent seven good, loving years with her husband, Ron Talon, with whom she had a wonderful little girl, Kristy. When “The Deathstone” opens, Ron, under enormous stress at his Hollywood talent agency after a writer’s strike, is drinking heavily, and little Kristy isn’t acting like herself, either. Chandal is thus eager for the family to get away on vacation and they set out to drive across the great American West. An accident in Utah strands them in a remote mountain village. The townspeople there are friendly but some of their customs seem a little strange. While Ron is secretly experiencing violent, psycho-sexual visions and hallucinations, little Kristy is obsessed with creatures no one else can see. When the family participates in the village’s Carnival of Summer, Chandal is traumatized by the realization that an insidious specter of evil is determined to wreak revenge by taking her husband and child. 

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Black Easter by James Blish

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Boris Karloff’s Favorite Horror Stories

Robert Bloch (The Opener of the Way)

Roald Dahl (Man from the South)

 August Derleth (The Thing That Walked on the Wind)

Frank Gruber (The Thirteenth Floor)

Edmond Hamilton (Child of the Winds)

Evan Hunter (The Scarlet King)

John W. Jakes (The Opener of the Crypt)

C. M. Kornbluth (The Mindworm)

H. P. Lovecraft (The Haunter of the Dark)

Robert Silverberg (Back from the Grave)

Theodore Sturgeon (The Graveyard Reader) 

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Colt 38 Special Squad

Colt 38 Special Squad
1976


Probably the dullest poliziotteschi I've seen, notable only for a weird, out of place car stunt on top of a train and a swinging disco with a very normal looking Grace Jones.

DVD from Amazon.

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Savage Night by Jim Thompson

Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the state's latched onto his game, the feds take a bite and the lawyer fees eat away at the rest, all Jake's got left is the bottle and a beautiful wife whose every word is ugly.  

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Gonzagas Woman by John Jakes

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Private Chauffeur by N.R. DeMexico

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Author Overview: John Byrne

John Byrne is mainly known for his comic work, as artist/writer on legendary runs of X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Superman, as well as for being an occasionally bigoted loudmouth.

He also made a brief foray into the world of horror prose fiction:

1988: Fear Book - featuring a haunted mail order catalog

1991: Nocturne in Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror

1992: Hide in Plain Sight in Shock Rock

1992: Whipping Boy

TV Obscura - Letters to Laugh In

Daytime quiz show spin-off from Laugh In.  Contestants mailed in jokes that were read by Laugh In regulars.  Probably as funny as the original show.