Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special thanks to my editor, Ella Chappell at Titan Books, for her encouragement and support throughout the process, and for giving me the opportunity to write my first movie novelization. Also, at Titan Books, thanks to Valerie Gardner, Joanna Harwood, Helen Marie, Lukmon Ogunbadejo and Kiran Rihal.

Thanks to Malek Akkad, Bill Block, Jason Blum, John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, David Gordon Green, and Danny McBride at Miramax for bringing me aboard. And thanks to David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, and Jeff Fradley for the frightening and creepy screenplay! Of course, none of this would be possible without John Carpenter and Debra Hill, who gave us the terrific characters and situations from the original Halloween, the viewing of which has become a holiday tradition in our home.

For keeping me in the writing zone throughout, a note of audio thanks for Tangerine Dream’s Quantum Gate.

Finally, thanks to my family for their support and understanding while I burrowed ever deeper into the story.