Halloween Horror

Es war einmal ein Hufschmied namens Jack Oldfield. Dieser galt als besonders geizig und trunksüchtig. In der Nacht auf Allerheiligen erschien ihm in einem Wirtshaus der Teufel persönlich und wollte seine Seele holen. Doch Jack verhandelte noch einen allerletzten Trunk. Da der Teufel kein Geld bei sich hatte, verwandelte er sich selbst in eine Münze, um den Trunk zu bezahlen. Jack steckte diese Münze schnell in seine Börse, in der sich ein silbernes, kleines Kreuz befand und sich der Teufel somit nicht zurück verwandeln konnte.

Halloween is a holiday of fright, a time to dress up and go house to house for candy, a time for fun. But what happens when you don’t follow the rules? Nicholas Gray presents five Halloween tales to get you in the spirit and cover your arms in goosebumps. Three friends are in for a trick-or-treat surprise. A surly boy goes trick-or-treating to the wrong house. A grumpy old man gets a special Halloween visitor. A man goes shopping for a Halloween mask. And some bored teenagers go on a vandalism spree.

Die vierte Leiche führte Holmes und Watson in ein Krankenhaus. Die Krankenschwester Nancy Rogers wurde auf dieselbe Art und Weise getötet wie ihre Vorgänger. Um ihren Leichnam herum standen nun nur noch zwei Kürbisse. Am Abend danach hatte Watson wieder einen dieser furchteinflößenden Träume. Als er endlich wieder erwachte, konnte er Holmes ein Präsent vom Teufel persönlich überreichen. Und dieses Geschenk ließ nur auf einen einzigen Täter schließen.

Es war der 29. Oktober 1933, drei Tage vor Samhain, in der das Tor zur Anderswelt weit offen stand, und die Toten geehrt wurden und man sich gleichzeitig vor den bösen Geistern schützen musste, als Inspektor Wolfford bei Holmes und Watson in der Baker Street auftauchte und um Hilfe bat. Die Hebamme Mrs. Hughes wurde tot in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden. Um die Leiche herum wurden fünf Kürbisse platziert, jeder davon mit einer Fratze versehen und hell erleuchtet.

Holmes wusste nun, wer der Täter sein musste. Anhand von Inspektor Wolffords Befragungen konnte Holmes schnell einen Zusammenhang herstellen.

Holmes und Watson waren zwar jetzt im Besitz eines Zettels, der die Vornamen der nächsten beiden Opfer preisgab. Doch wie sollten sie Inspektor Wolfford erklären, woher sie die Liste hatten? Zumal der Erhalt dieser Liste jegliche Logik von vorne herein ausschloss. Außerdem stellte sich noch die Frage, wer hinter dem dritten und letzten Opfer stecken sollte, da dieses nur mit einem Fragezeichen versehen war. Als Holmes und Watson schließlich auf das dritte Opfer, den Pfarrer Blake Bancroft, stießen, beschlich Holmes eine böse Vermutung, wer sich hinter dem letzten Opfer verbergen konnte.

Es gab einen weiteren Toten zu beklagen. Den Lehrer Joseph Ross. Den Tatort fanden Holmes und Watson identisch wie tags zuvor bei Mrs. Hughes auf, mit der Ausnahme, das anstelle von fünf Kürbissen nur mehr vier um die Leiche drapiert wurden. Holmes befürchtete daraufhin, würde man dem Muster folgen, dass man in den nächsten Tagen noch mindestens mit drei weiteren Leichen rechnen musste. Es galt den Täter so schnell wie möglich zu finden. Doch ein Traum von Dr. Watson ließ alles in einem neuem Licht erscheinen.

31 Nights of Halloween brings together 31 frightful tales from the world's most talented ghouls. Each story is guaranteed to send chills down your back and make your blood run cold. With one chilling tale for each night in the month of October, you won't want to go out trick-or-treating this Halloween. So turn off the lights, crawl into your beds and begin to listen, if you think you can survive.

It's Halloween, the witching time of year, and for the small town of DenMark this is the worst time of year. Why? Well, because DenMark is cursed with a horrible old witch living on Bone Crusher Lane. Every year at this time, the townsfolk lock up their homes against the witch. You see, DenMark has a curse on it in the name of old Lucille Peacock. Every All Hallows' Eve, the witch steals a child from the townsfolk - call it a sacrifice. This night, however, something has changed in DenMark.

Morgan, an early settler is finding it hard to fit into their new community along with his wife and teenage daughter Suzie. And during his fortnightly visit into town, several miles away, he learns that it will only get harder as the winds of winter blow in upon them. Travel with Morgan and his daughter into the sick society he did not suspect dwelled so close to them within these cold, lonely mountains.

Something bad happened at the neighbors' house on Halloween. Tammy and her daughter, Bree, are excited to move into their new house, but the excitement soon dies as the house's evil past reveals itself. Tammy witnesses a murder, but is it real? Voices call out to her, but no one is there. And two young boys in Halloween costumes appear to her, pleading for her help. As she begins to unravel the horror of the house, Halloween approaches. Tammy believes she and Bree are safe, but the house has other plans for their happy, bloody Halloween night.

Sometimes, otherworldly beings reach out in strange and mysterious ways. They may have a request for you to fulfill, or simply take pleasure in terrifying you senseless. If you’re lucky, you might even live to tell the tale….

In a graveyard on Halloween night, Claude waits for the arrival of a man he has hated his entire life. Under the amber light of a harvest moon, he contemplates his enemy's unusual gift that will destroy all of mankind. Despite the fact that the man is not evil, Claude knows he will never believe the truth. No, it is a battle to the death and neither of them can escape their fate. 

Tommy Rotten lies immersed in a billowing blanket of fog, wringing his cold hands in elated anticipation. He is optimistic that this year someone will finally come. He fantasizes about the potential candidates that will come tromping through the neighborhood, roaming the night in delightfully hideous homage to serial killers and demons and ghouls - normally inhabitants of their nightmares - but tonight, Halloween, brings them endless delight.

Madman Jack had murdered 14 women in numerous ways seven years before in a small Indiana farm town. He was what doctors called a missionary killer. He believed all women were evil, and he believed it was his God-given duty to kill them. Tonight, October 30, 2008, Jack would escape his maximum-security prison cell and travel back to the same small town and steal more souls to regain his powers. 

Halloween was his birthday, and all poor Bob Talley wanted was for his family to be together again. This year, his wish might come true...

Hordes of gnashing, chipped-tooth mouths and grabby hands...anticipating Halloween treats. This time they aren't wearing masks. This time...you are the treat. And they. Are. Hungry.

When a young man from a village comes to the big city to study, he finds himself overwhelmed by the urban lifestyle. But will he manage to blend in by going to a Halloween party, when his crush asks him to help decorate the place, when the abandoned villa becomes all too spooky for him and when the illusory masks everyone wears seem to never come off?

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.