• Publication: The October CountryPublication Record # 353875
• Author: Ray Bradbury
• Date: 1997-09-00
• ISBN: 1-887368-15-9 [978-1-887368-15-5]
• Publisher: Gauntlet Press
• Price: $65.00
• Pages: 234
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: The October Country by Ray Bradbury
• Notes: 40th Anniversary Edition Preface by Bradbury written for the original edition, but never published. Limited to 500 copies signed by all contributors. A separate slipcase was available for $25.00. Also announced: 52-copy deluxe leather lettered traycase edition for $150.00.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Homecoming • [The Elliott Family] • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming)
• Jack-in-the-Box • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Skeleton • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Cistern • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Dwarf • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Emissary • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Jar • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Lake • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Man Upstairs • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Next in Line • (1947) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
• The Scythe • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Small Assassin • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Wind • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• There Was an Old Woman • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Touched with Fire • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Uncle Einar • [The Elliott Family] • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
•  The October Country • (1955) • interior artwork by Joseph Mugnaini [as by Joe Mugnaini]
•  The October Country • interior artwork by Ray Bradbury
•  The October Country (sketches) • interior artwork by Joseph Mugnaini [as by Joe Mugnaini]
• Introduction (The October Country) • essay by Dennis Etchison
• Afterword (The October Country) • essay by Robert R. McCammon
• Preface (The October Country) • essay by Ray Bradbury