Halloween Anthology

This ghost story is a very unusual tale for O. Henry - longer than most and one of the few he wrote that dealt with the supernatural.

Nine spine-chilling stories from Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jerome K. Jerome, read by Laurence Olivier, Nelson Olmsted, and Basil Rathbone.

Jayda Marie's Halloween is a fun-filled adventure about a cute little girl named Jayda who is absolutely enthralled with the excitement of scary people dressed up in cute outfits, including herself, clad in beautiful witch attire. Her hat keeps falling off, and so she decided to enjoy the day without it. As she gathers candy at the festive shopping center along with other trick-or-treaters, she keeps up with the candy eating, though she tries to save most of it inside of her candy bag. Jayda gets even more excited when nighttime comes, and she gathers even more candy throughout the neighborhood.

A brother and sister creep out of the darkness with bags full of deadly tricks in Gregor Xane's "The Riggle Twins", a short story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.

A boy with a misshapen skull just wants to be normal in Evans Light's "Pumpkinhead Ted", a short story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.

This is a story about ants that make a haunted house and props for Halloween. The ants are getting ready for Halloween. They decorate with the help of the parents. The book includes words of wisdom for young listeners who may look up to the author for encouragement.

It's Halloween night and the Count is throwing a party for his undead friends. Guess who the main course is! Join Jill and Vickie, two college cheerleaders, as they accept Dracula's special invitation to the Ball. See if two cheerleaders fight back against the evil forces surrounding them this Halloween night?

Jenny has been plagued by disturbing nightmares and visions every Halloween since she was a child. She’s grown up now, but they’re only getting worse. Can her Horology professor's theories on time manipulation provide answers? Is the mysterious mind connection Jenny senses between them tied in? Or is reality itself being irretrievably rearranged?

Two bullies go hunting for trouble but instead find a young boy and his imaginary friend in Jason Parent's Easy Pickings, a short-story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.

We've all been to haunted house attractions on Halloween that have people made up to be scary-looking to scare us even though it is all fake, and we know it, but we don't care; we just want to be scared. Meet Henry Adams. He loves going to haunted attractions, but was getting bored and not scared anymore, so he decided he was going to make his own Haunted attraction that would be to die for - literally. Henry wanted to be the envy of all Halloween attractions, and he was going to do it in a deadly way.

It was Halloween again, October 31st, just like all the Halloweens before it. But this Halloween would change the world forever. The Devil decided to go against God's wishes of only having enough power to deceive our way of being able to choose between good and evil. The Devil said "Halloween Night is the only night of the year that my powers are the strongest." As the darkness set in and the trick-or-treaters headed out of their homes to get candy, the Devil entered every trick-or-treater's mind using mental telepathy.