HalloweenTown

(preorder—to be published this Fall)

Artwork by Ben Baldwin.

Introduction by Michael Marshall Smith.

Afterword by the Mia Dalia.

Published by Earthling Publications.

This year’s Halloween offering from Earthling Publications, by title alone, hits the mark straight on. We’ve been able to lock in a double-handful of copies of OctoberTown by Mia Dahlia, whose previous novellas, Alakazam, and A Song for the End of the World, sold quite well for us.

Paul Miller at Earthling has one of the keenest eyes in the genre for new and lesser known authors. All signs point to his being ahead of the rest of us once again.

About the Book:

Every Halloween, one street becomes the beating heart of the town—a blazing corridor of jack-o’-lanterns, towering skeletons, and lavish Victorian houses dressed to look haunted. For a writer and his wife, it’s been a beloved tradition—a night full of candy-sweet air, warm orange glow, and the kind of magic October saves for those who still believe in it.

Tonight, it becomes the last perfect memory of his life. Now shattered and unraveling, he obsessively rewrites the events of that fateful night as reality and fiction begin bleeding into one another.

But in OctoberTown, you don’t always get to choose your story.

Sometimes, the story chooses you.

Limited: 500 numbered, offset printed, Smyth-sewn, cloth-covered hardcovers, signed by Mia Dalia

Praise for OctoberTown and the Works of Mia Dalia:

“Mia Dalia has insight and poise and a relentless focus that I haven’t seen in any other writer since Shirley Jackson. She will possess you. She’s that good.”

—Michael Marshall Smith, from his introduction to OctoberTown



“Beautifully detailed characters and a subtle slide into dread...”


—Booklist (starred review) on Haven



“There are no tricks here, only the very real magic of a masterful storyteller. Mia Dalia has the sleight of hand that comes with being a truly gifted writer.”

—Ian Rogers on Alakazam