A review by trevert
The Halloween Store, and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve by Ronald Kelly

4.0

Loved it. It's pretty much the film version of Halloween anthology movies like Trick R Treat or The Mortuary Collection. There isn't an overarching storyline to tie everything together, which made me sad, but it's still a glorious little collection of gleefully fun horror of the "Don Post mask" era, and if you know what that reference means, you'll probably enjoy this. Kids send off for a comicbook monster with startling results. A smalltown sheriff is out of his league against a Jack-O-Lantern-obsessed serial killer. Kids buy some great new masks at the mystery Halloween store and chaos ensues. That sort of thing. It's not gruesome or downbeat or depressing, it's very "EC Comics" in its style and even includes a few personal essays by the author about his own experiences of Halloween in the 1970's.
Thumbs up, an ideal October read.