The Halloween Tree (Ray Bradbury)

I was just thinking, I wonder if this book was discussed by John Carpenter and friends, around the time they did Halloween 3? At that point, they were thinking of taking the franchise in the direction of a series of films loosely based on Halloween and/or Samhain, and what it has meant over the years to different cultures. This book could have inspired those conversations, or at least contributed ideas to them. Googling it together with John Carpenter, nothing much comes up, and I haven't heard much about this possibility over the years. It's intriguing though. Does anybody here know anything about any connections here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Halloween_Tree