It is Halloween night in Haddonfield, Illinois. Six gunshots pierce the silence of this normally quiet town. Neighborhood kids trick-or-treating on the street stare as a man plunges off a balcony. A doctor from the county mental hospital rushes from the house. He has followed his patient, who escaped from the institution, back to Haddonfield, where fifteen years earlier he brutally murdered his own sister. The demented young man has already killed three teenagers this evening. Tonight’s massacre has only begun!

Based off the film’s shooting script, author Dennis Etchison (writing under the pen-name Jack Martin) adds his own flair to his novelization of Halloween II. Though similarly structured to the film, the novelization features many of the film’s deleted scenes that were present in its television cut, as well as adding a few unique moments as well.