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Halloween Tales
Halloween is the night
for spooky tales and ghost stories. We've included a small collection
of Halloween stories here:
The Tale of Stingy Jack O'Lantern
This is the story of Stingy Jack
O'Lantern, told to me by my Irish grandfather, while he carved the
pumpkins at Halloween.
The same story his old Grandpop told at Halloween. My grandfather has long
since passed away, bless his soul, and now I'm passing the story on to you.
Ole Man Pumpkin
A charming story of a country Halloween in rural 19th century America, from Half Past Seven Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson........
It was October, and the cornfield was deserted and bare. Jehosophat and
Marmaduke could remember it as a more beautiful picture. For there, in the
Summer, an army had camped, the great army of the corn, with tassels and tall
yellow spears, and bright green banners waving and tossing in the wind.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored...
Hansel And Grethel
Hard-by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his two children and his wife who was their stepmother. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Grethel. The wood-cutter had little to bite and to break, and once when a great famine fell on the...
The Old Witch
There was once a little girl who was very willful and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to her; so how could she be happy?
One day she said to her parents: "I have heard so much of the old witch that I will go and see her. People say she...
The Strange Visitor: An English Folk-Tale
A woman was sitting at her reel one night; and still she sat, and still she reeled, and still she wished for company.
In came a pair of broad, broad soles, and sat down at the fireside!
And still she sat, and still she reeled, and...
The Phantom Knight Of The Vandal Camp
There was once in Great Britain, a knight named Albert, strong in arms and adorned with every virtue. One day as he was seeking for adventure, he chanced to wander into a castle where he was hospitably entertained.
At night, after supper, as...
Spooky Halloween Stories from other sites
Ghost Stories
and Grim Tales
This collection of spooky stories makes great Halloween reading,
but these ghost stories are not for the faint hearted. You've been warned!
The King Of The Cats
- a black cat tale for
Halloween
Once upon a time there were two brothers who lived in a lonely house in a
very lonely part of Scotland. An old woman used to do the cooking, and
there was no one else, unless we count her cat and their own dogs, within
miles of them.
Shippeitaro and the Phantom Cats
A spooky Japanese tale for Halloween......The storm was over. Moonlight
shone on the clearing. And there he saw what seemed to be a troop of
monstrous cats, who like huge phantoms marched across the open space in
front of the temple. They broke into a wild dance, uttering shrieks, howls,
and wicked laughs.....
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