Halloween Short

Get ready to lose yourself in this collection of tragic stories from our authors that will fill your heart and tear it out at the same time. Sometimes a happy ending is not possible despite our best hopes, and things end in a way we never anticipated. Prepare to have your heart strings pulled and your resolve tested as these heart-breaking stories of love and tragedy leave you spinning.

Es ist die Nacht von Halloween. Klopf, klopf, klopf! Ist da mein Verderben, oder wieder bloß ein harmloser Schalk, der sich seine Süßigkeiten eintreiben will? Ein Vorort wie jeder andere auch, und doch birgt er ein abscheuliches Geheimnis. Denn nichts ist so, wie es den Anschein hat in der Nacht vor Halloween. Man möchte meinen, es handle sich hierbei um einen einfachen Abend im Jahr, dabei ist er ein Zuhause für Angst und Schrecken, weckt die finstersten Dämonen, niederträchtigsten Gelüste und blutige Sehnsüchte.

Another round of horrifying Halloween stories to fill you with delight. The audiobook 31 More Nights of Halloween brings together 31 short stories from today's newest authors. From ghosts to witches, to vampires and possessions, this collection has something for that Halloween kid in all of us. So take off your shoes and light a candle, but be careful what you say, you might end up casting a Halloween spell.

Blackstone Audio presents an eclectic mix of stories, plays and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Gore, sex, horror, literature and edifying morals - what more could you want from an audiobook?

One look and I knew that she was meant to be mine. When I clock the hooded figure following her, I react and kidnap her before they can hurt her. Now I’ve got to convince my dream girl that she can trust me to keep her safe while unraveling the mystery of who is really after her.

Classic horror stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries - annotated for modern listeners. This collection of stories and poems was originally selected with oral readability in mind, making this audiobook a sure-fire hit for listening to around the campfire at night, or to play for students - or for friends and family at Halloween get-togethers. For horror fans of all ages, these stories are guaranteed to intrigue, delight, and frighten!

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.

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.

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.

Miss Henrietta Moore’s life is about to get mysterious. When Sally, Henri’s maid, comes across a mask in a trunk of old costumes, Henrietta is entranced and transformed. She secretly wears the mask at the first of October’s masquerades, hoping to catch the attention of the man she thinks she loves. Instead, she finds herself the talk of the town. When her mother gives her an ultimatum to be engaged by All Hallows Eve or be forced into an arranged marriage, Henrietta continues her rouse in the hopes that the man of her dreams will recognize her.

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...

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.

All Hallows' Eve is a time for stories, when fear and imagination make all our ghosts real. From the monsters that stalk us in the dead of night, to the dank depths of our own souls where our greatest enemies linger, there is no place too dark to shine a light on. It is up to the reader, then, to dare to look, and see with eyes unclouded. These pages will probe through myth, legend, folklore, and dreams to present stories and poems of this hallowed time. Look within for a thrill, a scare, or a glimmer of hope.

"Unholy Womb" is the story of a young boy who finds more than he expects when he goes to carve his Halloween jack-o-lantern. In "Scream of Humanity" a pioneer doctor learns there may be something to those old wives' tales about childbirth.

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.

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.

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.

Then you don't mind sitting by a vampire's tomb at midnight. Or being locked up with the mummies in a dark museum. Or you might like to join the mysterious boy who lurks in the shadows at Saint Michael's. Or the ghost who waits by the side of the road. Or maybe, when you are home alone, you'd like to listen to these spine-chilling tales...and try to believe they won't happen to you!

Call it what you will: All Hallows Eve, Halloween, or All Saints Eve, but if evil comes looking for you, there’s nowhere to hide. Don’t fool yourself into thinking everything will be okay… The only thing you will ever be is dead or dying. Join us for tales of Halloween Horror in this volume of If I Die Before I Wake, but bring your body bags—no one gets out alive.

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.