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!
Poems and Short Stories
Poems and short stories, from classic chillers to the dark visions of our contributors.
Myths & Legends
Take a trip back to the misty lands of legend and myth, where the dead walk the land, tricksters fool the unwary and monsters creep around the bark of ancient trees.
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. ...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 ...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 EndStop 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, ...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 ...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 to the mirror. The teeth slipped in easily, were in fact, a perfect fit. He made a face in the ...Halloween Myths & Monsters
By Lesley Bannatyne excerpted from A Halloween How-To "I hate Halloween," exclaims an elderly caller on an AM radio talk show in Maryland. "They should get rid of it. Kids today are just destructive." "Halloween glorifies Satan," warns a preacher on national cable television. "Kids shouldn't dress up as devils, period." "I would never let my children go out trick or treating alone," confides a D.C.-area mom of her six year-old and ten-year old. "I'd never forgive myself if something happened." People hurl invectives at Halloween like bullets. It's dangerous. Bang. It's Satanic. Bang. It's commercial. Bang. It's too scary, too corrupted, too ...
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