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• 19 • Foreword: The Orange and Black Land • essay by Adam Bolivar
• 22 • Introduction: Songs from a Hallowed Hymnal • essay by K. A. Opperman
• 28 • Pumpkin Country • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 29 • The Greatest Gift • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 30 • Pumpkin Spell • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 31 • The Star of All My Garden • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 33 • Appalachian Halloween • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 34 • Carver's Rhyme • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 35 • The Parade Lantern • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 36 • In the Name of Halloween • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 37 • Crepe Paper Patterns • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 39 • Cat-o'-Lantern • (2020) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 41 • Time for Halloween • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 43 • Witch's Candy • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 45 • The Pumpkin Juggler • (2018) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 46 • The Three Pretty Pumpkins • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 51 • The Haunted House • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 55 • The Haunted Pumpkin • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 56 • The Pumpkin Maiden • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 59 • Evil Harvest • (2020) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 61 • Those Who Rise from Orange Slime • (2021) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 62 • The Harvester • (2020) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 63 • Invocation of the Pumpkin King • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 65 • The Harvest Spirit • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 66 • Halloween Dreams • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 67 • October's Eve • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 69 • I'll Return in Late October • (2020) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 70 • Forever October • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 71 • October Thirty-First • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 73 • Halloween Carnival • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 74 • Halloween Acrostic • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 75 • Halloween Shrine • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 78 • Orange • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 79 • They of Little Faith • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 80 • Samhain Prayer • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 81 • Pumpkins • (2020) • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 83 • Sunflowers • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 84 • One More Golden Summer • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 85 • Corn Moon • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 87 • Autumn Memories • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 88 • October Song • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 89 • Pumpkin Grinning by the Gate • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 91 • The Season • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 92 • When All Seems Lost • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 93 • The Twelve Hallows • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 95 • Harvest Home • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 97 • Where Yet October Dwells • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 98 • November Moon • poem by K. A. Opperman
• 102 • Author's Afterword: Trick-or-Treat As Initiatory Rite • essay by K. A. Opperman