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• ix • Introduction (A Newbery Halloween) • (1993) • essay by Lloyd Alexander
• 1 • The Baddest Witch in the World (excerpt from Ramona the Pest) • (1968) • short fiction by Beverly Cleary
• 13 • Witch Girl • (1948) • short story by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 23 • A Halloween to Remember (chapters 1 & 2 of "Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth") • (1967) • short fiction by E. L. Konigsburg
• 37 • The Ghost in the Attic (chapter 5 of "The Moffats") • (1941) • short story by Eleanor Estes
• 53 • Poor Little Saturday • (1956) • short story by Madeleine L'Engle
• 75 • Ah Tcha the Sleeper • juvenile • (1925) • short story by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• 83 • The Witch's Eye (excerpt) • (1990) • short fiction by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• 101 • The Magic Ball • (1924) • short story by Charles J. Finger
• 111 • The Man of Influence • (1982) • short story by Paul Fleischman
• 133 • Camp Fat • (1971) • short story by E. L. Konigsburg
• 157 • The Horse of the War God • (1932) • short story by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 167 • The Year Halloween Happened One Day Early (excerpt from "Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed") • (1983) • short fiction by Virginia Hamilton
• 183 • About the Authors (A Newbery Halloween) • (1993) • essay by uncredited