Halloween Reads · 19 Titles

Enter the Darker Side of Sequoia

Gothic mysteries, forgotten nightmares, and strange tales from the darker corners of literature. Discover Sequoia's haunting collection of classic and curated horror.

Chosen by the Publisher

Publisher’s Halloween Selections

Three Sequoia anthologies we’d hand you first this season — in the publisher’s order of recommendation.

I.Publisher’s Selection

The Cabinet of Cursed Things

Sequoia Book Publishers

A ring, a monkey’s paw, a photograph, a violin, a bottle, a skull, a manuscript, a crystal egg—and other objects that should have been left alone. Eighteen historical supernatural tales are arranged as cases in a strange museum, with original Sequoia editorial headnotes guiding readers to the cabinet door before stepping aside.

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II.Publisher’s Selection

Year of Weird Horror: 1930 (Annotated)

Sequoia Book Publishers

In 1930, you could put a dime on a drugstore counter and walk out with horror unlike anything being sold in hardcovers. This annotated anthology gathers eighteen stories from that single extraordinary year — when Gothic tradition, pulp imagination, and modern horror were overlapping in especially vivid ways — and presents them as a curated reading experience with full original editorial material. The collection opens with William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and moves through work by Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Margaret Irwin, E. F. Benson, Seabury Quinn, and more — each story accompanied by original headnotes, explanatory footnotes, and arranged to create a reading arc, not a chronological inventory. This is the first volume in an annual series recovering the finest horror and weird fiction of a given year, presented not as plain reprints, but as annotated editions built for readers who want classic horror with real editorial care and atmosphere. These are the ones worth keeping.

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III.Publisher’s Selection

The Old Night Came Knocking: A Restored & Annotated Halloween Horror Anthology

Sequoia Book Publishers

Eighteen historical tales in which Halloween matters: fairy mounds open, graves answer, vows bind, roads turn dangerous, and old warnings prove less quaint than they appear. Moving from folklore and nineteenth-century ghost fiction into the weird pulps, this restored and annotated anthology follows the night across decades of supernatural storytelling.

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