Ah, November. The gratuitous tree nudity; the biting, sleet-flecked wind that slices through our Duck Tales underoos; the dread of our Thanksgiving tofurky being mocked by omnivorous relatives.

But instead of wallowing in our depression like a hippopotamus with seasonal affective disorder, we’ve dedicated ourselves to providing you with an engaging diversion in the form of our November issue. So make yourself a margarita, turn on some ukulele music, and let Lucas Dylan-Frances, Gary Moshimer, Alex Munkacsy, Ian Sacks, Michael Schoch, and Sloan Thomas carry you away like a balmy tropical breeze.

We’re updating our look, but don’t be scared—all your favorite stories are still here, with lots more to come. The November issue will be Slithering Soon onto a Screen Near You, and there are plenty of old favorites to keep you busy until then.

No lava enemas here; just good scary stories.

There’s still a little time for All Hallows’ Read! (Or a lot of time, if you include All Saints’ Day Month. Which we do.)

If you haven’t already read Eirik Gumeny’s “horror/comedy epic,” “The Gnome-pocalypse Is Upon Us,” frankly, you’re just embarrassing yourself. Remedy this by reading it immediately.

There’s also our October Issue and the Halloween Issue from 2012, as well as any of the following: Stephen King’s IT, The Shining or Salem’s Lot; Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book; Ray Bradbury’s October Country or Something Wicked This Way Comes; Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House; and anything by H.P. Lovecraft or Edgar Allan Poe, obviously.