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!

 

Saw Man

By Tara Fox Hall “Where do we start first?” “Near the far edge,” I sighed. “We’ll work our way back.” As we trudged toward the edge of the forest, my thoughts lingered on how far I’d come in the months I’d had my new house. I’d cleaned up the broken glass, the rusty nails, and the garbage. The new roof was on, the small garage in its first stage of becoming. But there was still the edge of the woods to fix. The previous owners had tried selling firewood when other funds ran out. They’d gone about it by marking the biggest trees with paint and cutting them down. Then after cutting up a few into pieces, they’d decided the work was too hard ...

Manners

Eric glared back at his kid sister, scowling as she struggled along in her pink princess outfit. “I told you to go home, Tina.” “No,” she whined. “I want to trick or treat with you. Dad said I could.” “I said you can’t,” Eric said, exasperated. “You can’t keep up. Me, Billy and Jordan are going from Maple St. to West End.” “But I want to go with you,” Tina pleaded. “I can’t go with Dad, he’s—” “Tough luck,” Eric said, darting off. Tina let out a howl, but Eric was soon beyond her wails. Jordan and Billy were waiting at the corner. “Oh look, it’s a black cat,” Billy snickered. “Run, Jordan!” “Shut up,” Eric said angrily. “It’s the only costume Mom agreed to buy that ...

Top 10 Ways to Repel and Kill Vampires

Hauntingly pale with long canines for biting into flesh, vampires are much feared creatures of the night who survive off the blood of the living. Strolling neighbourhoods after dark in search of their next innocent victim, vampires are horrifyingly resilient and show no mercy. They can't be starved of oxygen, they can survive under water and they don't die of lack of food, so how can these ghastly beings of the underworld ever be slain? Here are top ten ways to repel or kill a vampire. 10. Lock your doors One thing many people don't realise is that the walking dead can't simply waltz into your bedroom to feast on your lifeblood of an evening. To enter a home, vampires must be invited ...

Joe The Skinner! – A Spooky New Jersey Legend

I remember years ago my grandfather telling me stories about a man who use to live off in the woods in the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey. His name was Joe, Joe the Skinner they use to call him because he did a lot of the taxidermy work for the hunters in the area. He also did some butchering. Gramps said he was a tall man well over 6 feet may be closer to 7. Gramps had and old picture of him. Where he got it or who took it I don’t know I never asked Gramps, but remember seeing it as a kid. The picture was an old black and white one, wrinkled some and a little faded, ...

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, ...

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