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Eerie Tom’s Inn – A Colonial Tale of Ghosts & The Jersey Devil

Eerie Tom’s Inn – A Colonial Tale of Ghosts & The Jersey Devil This is a story of fiction based on many local myths and legends in my area. The time frame, towns, roads, rivers and likewise the relationship to the names and actions of the old Bergen County names used in this story are purely factitious. I am, through my mother’s side of the family, related to most of the Colonial families of Bergen Count, so indeed do them no discredit. This is a story. - Bradley Shane Rain dripped from the front peak ...

4 Halloween Poems

4 Halloween Poems THE EXPERIENCE Walking down a dark street Lit with candle flames Knocking on a strange door Being asked your name Creatures roaming everywhere Giving you a fright Oh, it must be Halloween The very best’est night HALLOWEEN MEMORIES Memories of days gone by Jack o lanterns glowing Trick or treaters everywhere With pure excitement showing Friends and family gather ‘round Party times then abound These are things that we hold dear Building memories year by year SLEEPY DAYS The rustle of dry leaves under your feet The distant smell of fire Oh ...

Butterfly Man

Butterfly Man Outside the Manitoba morning sky was an acrylic palette of blended hues; reds, oranges, yellows; all highlighted by golden light. The morning sun lit a world filled with buds and shoots hungering for the caress of the fiery orb rising higher. Steven sipped his coffee, his kitchen forgotten as he stared out of the picture window. It was best to start long days early, but to forget to stop and see the world was a sin he would no longer commit. ...

First Halloween Costume

First Halloween Costume © Copyright by David Lady "Aww, COOL!" exclaimed Jody as Susan turned the page. The eight-year-old smiled broadly at the picture of his Aunt Susan, taken when she was about his age, dressed in an implausibly bright and colorful witch costume for Hallowe'en. "That was the first Hallowe'en costume your great-grandma ever made me," smiled Susan, "and I drove my parents nuts with it! I wanted to wear it around even after Hallowe'en, I loved it so much." "Did Grandma and ...

One Halloween Night

One Halloween Night by Michael J. Smajda Never again on a Halloween night Will I ever go near a graveyard site. For when last I did, this is what I saw Zombie-like creatures, large and small, Ascending from their graves, one by one, Moaning and groaning in unison, Wandering about like flocks of blind sheep, Relieved to be awakened from years of dead sleep. Having never seen corpses upright before, Much less, decomposed, I viewed them in horror. And seeing skeletons still wearing their coffin best, Did very little to slow the heart in ...

Pumpkin Halloween

Pumpkin Halloween Author Unknown Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate. The first one said, "My it's getting late." The second one said, "There are witches in the air." The third one said, "But we don't care!" The fourth one said, "Lets run, lets run." The fifth one said, "I'm ready for some fun." Ooooooo went the wind, Out went the lights And five little pumpkins went Rolling out of sight. The End

Stop Trick or Treating

Stop Trick or Treating (To the tune of We Wish You A Merry Christmas) We wish you'd quit trick-or-treating, We wish you'd quit trick-or-treating, We wish you'd quit trick-or-treating And come back in here. You do this ev'ry October, You know trick-or-treat is over, The night's getting dark and colder, So please come inside. You run place to place, Still feeding your face, We wish you'd quick trick-or-treating Before you get sick. Halloween is fine and dandy, But you can't just pig out on candy, You embarrass your mom and daddy, So please come back home. We wish you'd quit ...

The Raven

The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-- Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; --vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of ...

The Raven – An Analysis

The Raven – An Analysis An Analysis of Poe's Work "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quote from the Raven, "Nevermore." The above quote from "The Raven" may well been seen as prophetic. With the publishing of this poem in 1845, Poe's life would be forever connected to these dark, clever birds. He was quickly himself dubbed "the Raven" by his contemporaries, and there's some evidence suggesting he may have even reveled in his new nickname. Regardless of ...

Halloween

Halloween By Dr. Jeanne Keyes Youngson Baxter looked out his bedroom window at the street below. No kids in sight. Probably still eating supper, he thought. Turning to admire his costume, which was carefully laid out on the bed, he smoothed the red satin lining of the cape with his fingertips. He grinned from ear to ear thinking of the treats he was going to have later. He leaned over, picked up a set of plastic fangs from the bedside table and went ...

The Grinch Who Stole Halloween

The Grinch Who Stole Halloween Adapted by Steve Chavez a.k.a. Wraith Everyone in Boo-ville liked Halloween a lot... But the Grinch, who wrote for a newspaper, did NOT! The Grinch hated Halloween! The whole Halloween season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his childhood just didn’t go right. It could be his neighbor’s candy generosity was too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all, May have been that his Halloween spirit was two sizes too small. But, whatever the reason, his spirit ...




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