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and

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warn Buffy not to go out on

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if it's raining. According to the premise of the book, the rain in

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is magical on Halloween, and if it lands on a

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it will animate and hunt down the

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. While at a Halloween party at the Bronze, Buffy is forced to go to the cemetery to fight

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. She eventually encounters the reanimated scarecrow.

Continuity

This novel is meant to take place between the episodes " The Pack" and "

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" in season one. However, Halloween has already long passed in the show's continuity, making the events in this novel impossible. Golden revealed in an interview that the book was written before the "Halloween" episode which contradicted elements of the novel ''Halloween Rain''.Interview with Christopher Golden at ''Watcher's Web''

Translations

* ''Halloween'' (German) * ''La Pluie d'Halloween'' (French) * ''Hujan Rain'' (Indonesian) * ''Il ballo di Halloween'' (Italian) * ''Halloween'' (Dutch) * ''Chuva em Dia de Bruxas'' (Portuguese) * ''死霊の王'' (Japanese)

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Reviews

* ttp://www.teen-books.com/Halloween_Rain__Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_0671017136.html ''Teen-books.com'' - Reviews of this book
''Nika-summers.com'' - Review of this book by Nika Summers
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