With all the messages that bombard the average American every day is staggering. Despite iPods, laptops, WiFi, cable television, satellites, broadband, broadcast and satellite radio, a good Halloween story still has the supernatural power to cause a shiver up your spine. Your imagination will bring you back to your childhood of reading stories under the covers with a flashlight, or scaring each other around a campfire deep in a primal forest.

Below are a collection of various Halloween short stories, legends, myths and more. If you have a fun story, be sure to pass it along. If this is your first time here, be sure to bookmark this page so you can return. New tales are added all the time. Enjoy!

 

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 of his tri corner hat, the shawl like collar of his great coat was turned up yet still rivulets of water ran down his neck and his queued dark hair hung heavy from the base of his skull. His horse ...

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 how warmth feels when its leaving the air Our days are growing tired Rally in the season Enjoy it till the end Capture the feeling Its Halloween once again ORANGE SOLDIERS Ever grinning Shining bright Lit within by candle light From our porches they are seen Orange soldiers of Halloween Always watchful ...

Halloween Then and Now

Everything Old is New Again Ever wonder the origins of our modern-day Halloween? Our holiday represents a merging of ancient Celtic culture and 8th Century Catholicism. Pope Boniface IV designated the day as All Saints' Day. The day was spent in honor of martyrs and saints of the Church. The festival, originally called "All Hallows’ Day" actually started the evening before, since back then "next day" began in the evening. Thus, October 31st was "All Hallow's Evening", shortened to "All Hallow's Even", to ... you guessed it! Amazingly, many of our modern-day holiday traditions come directly from these days of ore. The UNDEAD and Costume-Donning In ancient Celtic times, it was believed that on one day a year, the dead ...

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. Had not Julia accused him of such? The coffee was bitter without sugar. Only the kitchen clock broke the morning silence. With a sigh he checked his watch. It was time to start; he threw back the last of the bitter ...

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 Grandpa let you?" asked ten-year-old Tyler, who sat on the sofa with Susan and Jody. "Well, not much," she answered. "They finally had to literally take it away from me, and make Grandma store it at her place." "Great-Grandma musta been ...

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 my chest From rapidly pounding all due to the fright That overwhelmed my being this October night. But just when I was about to flee from these grounds, A gruesome figure appeared with two gutless hounds That, also, had been entombed for many-a-day, Heading socket-less eyes, ...

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

(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 trick-or-treating, We wish you'd quit trick-or-treating, We wish you'd quit trick-or-treating… You're forty-two.

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 sorrow-- sorrow for the lost Lenore-- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-- Nameless here for evermore. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, ...

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 how he felt about it, though, the corvid was certainly deeply entrenched in his life, becoming&emdash;and remaining&emdash;a symbol of his tortured life and writings. But why ravens? Poe, in an article for Graham's Magazine, explained that he first considered using a parrot ...

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