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One of 52 lettered copies signed Bradbury, Dennis Etchison (introduction), and Robert R. McCammon (afterword). Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket in a tray case. Light edge-wear to the traycase, unmarked.

'The October Country' is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories. Each story is accompanied by a macabre illustration by Joseph Mugnaini. The stories in this collection touch on the themes of the autumn season, dealing with the fantastical, the weird, and the melancholic, conjuring the essence of October and its mix of anticipation and apprehension.