The Witch’s Tale was American network radio’s first dramatic series devoted to tales of terror, conceived, written and directed by Alonzo Deen Cole. Subtitled Stories of Gothic Horror from The Golden Age of Radio, Dunwich Press collected thirteen of the radio show’s original scripts as a limited edition trade paperback, edited by David S. Siegel. Two of the scripts were also re-created and broadcast live as a special Halloween programme on a west coast radio station on October 30th.

A trade paperback printing of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos was significantly revised from the 1969 edition, with a new introduction by James Turner, and Arkham House finally reprinted Lovecraft’s Selected Letters III.

After going out of print for a short while, and just in time to tie-in with Gus Van Sant’s pointless shot-for-shot remake, Robert Bloch’s classic Psycho was reissued with a new cover by Tor Books.

As usual, R. L. Stine ruled the young adult market with the first volume of “Goosebumps Series 2000”, Cry of the Cat, plus Fear Street: Camp Out and Fear Street: Scream, Jennifer. Stine’s Fear Street: Seniors, a new twelve-part series about a class of doomed students at Shadyside High School, began with 1: Let’s Party, 2: In Too Deep, 3: The Thirst and 4: No Answer. Fear Street Super Chiller 1: Stepbrother was about a girl whose dreams revealed that her stepbrother murdered her in a previous life.

Although credited to R. L. Stine on the covers, the pseudonymously written Fear Street Sagas series continued with 11: Circle of Fire (by Wendy Haley), 12: Chamber of Fear (by Brandon Alexander), 13: Faces of Terror (by Cameron Dokey),14: One Last Kiss (by Brandon Alexander), IS: Door of Death (by Eric Weiner) and 16: The Hand of Power (by Cameron Dokey).