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Cover of Toybox
  • 1999 Cemetery Dance deluxe hardcover first edition
  • 2003 Leisure Books mass-market paperback
  • 2011 Crossroad Press digital and audio reissue

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Toybox

1999 · Cemetery Dance

Young Selene is bored until the mysterious Toyman arrives at her door with an antique chest full of marvels and terrors. Opening the lid releases eighteen stories of childhood fears, rural secrets, and dark carnivals, written in the Bradburyian register Sarrantonio made his own.

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Stories in this volume

  • Richard's Head
  • Pumpkin Head
  • The Corn Dolly
  • The Man With Legs
  • Under My Bed
  • Boxes
  • Father Dear
  • Pigs
  • The Electric Fat Boy

A partial listing. Individual stories that first appeared elsewhere will be catalogued here as that record is compiled.

A note on availability

Al Sarrantonio died on January 27, 2025. Many of his print editions are long out of print, and the editions we can point readers to today are digital. Where a title has an active ebook or audiobook, the link above goes directly to it. Everything else on this page exists as a record of the book as it was published.