Month: October 2021

Driving into the old neighborhood made me feel uneasy as I looked around. I looked at the GPS again and it said I was going the right way, but most of these houses looked abandoned. Great Grandma Irene had been what my grandmother had called a black widow. She married a man, moved into his house with him, he suddenly […]

The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. Historical Background: Even before the Norman Conquest, the City of London had its own rules and […]

To twenty-one-year-old Layla’s great embarrassment, her grandmother was a self-proclaimed witch. She disappeared every Halloween to celebrate with her friends in a seaside resort and while she was away, she asked Layla to take care of her dog who suffered from a weak nervous system and was deeply upset by the incessant traffic of children ringing on their doors. Her […]

The path through the forbidden jungle was clearly defined, Ardos laughed to himself, some forbidden jungle indeed. The 3rd prince to the Pharoah, Ardos knew he would never be Pharoah and to avoid being killed in some ritualistic culling of younger male siblings , he had chosen to follow the path into priesthood. The initial tasks and tests had been […]

It was 5:15 in the evening and there was a knock at the door of Tammy’s apartment. She looked out the window and saw her boyfriend’s car so she opened the door. Before she could even greet him, he blurted out something and stuck a box in her face. “Tammy, they came. They’re here finally!” He yelled excitedly. “What’s here?” […]

I leaned back against the bar, closing my eyes for a brief moment. Just the briefest. The scent of freshly ground coffee beans floats around me. It mixes with too many other scents. Cinnamon, milk, vanilla, leather. Leather? I snapped my eyes open to find the hottest man I’ve ever seen waiting patiently at the register. “Oh!” I yelped. “Sorry, […]

Halloween. For most, the night is filled with fun and mischief. For most college students, the night is spent trying to get lucky at a party. For Connor, the night was just another reminder of his lame and lonely existence. He was a nerd in every sense of the word. He got straight A’s in every class, spent all of […]

“Calling all freaks, ghoulfiends, and creatures of the night! Visit the hottest Halloween house on the block- Howling Haunts Hall, located at 66 West 6th Street. Sensational spooks! Macabre monsters! Frights galore to send chills down your spine and infest your dreams. Open now through All Hallow’s Eve, from midnight to the death-knell of the witching hour- 4 AM. Face […]

The service drive was barely wider than her car, and in the darkness, Makayla missed it the first time she drove by. When she realized that she must have gone too far, she turned and backtracked until she saw it in her headlights, just a single lane of gravel leading back through the trees. The only indications of its purpose […]

The leaves had been dropping quickly, those last few days of October. High winds and heavy rain made for barren branches, etched across the landscape. First frost had already come, and now on this night, a stirring of 100 years, in the making. Halloween night, breath clung to the air, white clouds suspending over each whisper. Snow would come soon, […]