Novel & Cerita Spooktober 2024

“You’re already halfway in, Henry.” Grinning, Henry stepped inside. “Halloween’s coming up on October thirty-first. They announced the downtown festival on TV. It’s going to be big this year with costumes, music, and lights. I really want to go, especially since we missed it two years ago. You two should come with me.” He paused, then said, “Pleeease?” dragging the word with a grin. Asher lifted a brow, his voice teasing. “You came all the way here just to tell us that?”

Midnight Spook Party SEE the dead return! SEE live on stage: Johnny Alucard—a zombie nightmare with hex appeal! SEE buckets of blood! SEE a live murder! Triple feature shriek show starts at sundown Oct. 31. Stage show at midnight. Moonlite Drive-in HWY 139 at north county road. $5.00 per car—bring your friends, you’ll be afraid to go home alone! Something about this—something I knew I should remember. It floated at the edge of my memory, then it was gone like a passing cloud. I folded the flyer into my jacket pocket and went inside.

WITH ONLY one day left to Halloween, the people of Cape Cod were already setting into the mood of the Oktoberfest event. House yards were filled with spooky figures like white cloths to represent ghosts and the jack-o'-lanterns of course. Jake had stashed the book inside a compartment in his room, hoping the degenerate creatures of the dark would not find it. Certainly, there had to be a way to destroy all of them with the book and not just lifting it up in front of them when they showed up.

Eleanor heard him say. She slid down his back when she was sure it was safe enough. "Where are we?" "We are standing on land bordering the werewolf and the human kingdom." Drakken pointed into the distance. "Somewhere around there is that little brothel of yours if you look close enough. And there is the marketplace that hosts carnivals every 31st of October. Brings the three Kingdoms together once in a while." Eleanor smiled, gazing far at where his finger pointed. "It is called Halloween."

"I will kill all the members of your family if you do not offer yourself to me. I will bring you to the situation when you will intentionally come to me and plead to save your family members by offering yourself to me." Amara walked helpless towards the haunted mansion. She felt numb and lifeless for the happenings around her. The words of the sage begin to ring in her ears. "It will be the dark night without the moon, the onset of heavy storm and the shrill howls of dogs. There will be an unfathomable clamor present in the atmosphere, the unwelcoming cries of the eagles and the uproar of tumult yowls from everywhere around will be the indication to alert you it was the one and only day in y

“Why, Ms. Thalia?” In a wave of her hand, the chains in Dorrien Ronan’s hand now plummeted onto the floor. “There is always a right timing for everything.” *** Finally, Samhain has come. October 31 and it was the hallowed day for the creatures of the night. The Hunter’s Moon was vibrantly glowing on Halloween Night—Samhain for vampires and werewolves, and even for the Blood Witches also known as the Heathens. Rozelyn managed to recover soon from that heart-stopping situation days ago; less than a day, to be frank.

Too fucking bizarre to even contemplate, to even have been real. Still, it was funny, how the thin giant’s head didn’t seem nearly as large and monstrous tonight as it had when they were younger. There were other Halloween decorations on display along Brazier Drive, amid these sleeping Houses of the Holy. Richard noticed some window-cling mummies, and a bedsheet ghost in the trees. An autumn-harvest scarecrow with a pair of dullish orange pumpkins (whose fleshy insides must be turning to stringy, seeded mush with the warm September days) sat on the porch stoop next door.

We put out pumpkins and ghost decorations for Halloween, and cornucopias and turkeys for Thanksgiving, and in turn, they close their shops early and keep a quieter pace during the Somber Howl and stay up all night, telling stories of ancestors from long-ago during the Winter Solstice. “Then you can carry them to bed later.” I say with a chuckle as I put my head back down on my forearms that are still resting on my desk. Zella reaches over and begins running her fingers through my brown, curly, mess of hair. “So what happens next?” She asks. I know she’s both thinking about the safety of the pack and my own exhaustion level.

I replied with a friendly sneer before leaving Gar. After roughly a long day of lessons and some tests and some pop quizzes in between, Mr. Glyn was ready to give us the day’s send-off message. Halloween is coming up tomorrow and I guess the school authorities are thinking of going bigger than ever this year. Not like it really puts me up in a frenzy or anything but still, I’m tired of having the same old Halloween every year. “….so like I was saying class, as you all know, tomorrow is the thirty-first day of this month of October and you all know what that means…..” said Mr. Glyn with a face that made me think that he was expecting an answer from me.

I replied with a friendly sneer before leaving Gar. After roughly a long day of lessons and some tests and some pop quizzes in between, Mr. Glyn was ready to give us the day’s send-off message. Halloween is coming up tomorrow and I guess the school authorities are thinking of going bigger than ever this year. Not like it really puts me up in a frenzy or anything but still, I’m tired of having the same old Halloween every year. “….so like I was saying class, as you all know, tomorrow is the thirty-first day of this month of October and you all know what that means…..” said Mr. Glyn with a face that made me think that he was expecting an answer from me.