SPOOKY tales of horror,shock, terror...
Black horizons drape the October field.
Streets are mazes, where the candlelight shies.
Shutters slumber closed and doorways are chilled,
Where night birds perch, rocking prophetic eyes.
And as the birds take flight to find the moon.
The Hunt
Lightning thundered across the scary dark sky,
when the lightning flashed!The barn owl taking off from its vantage point,
high up on the cliff sides,
with its head pointed like a laser light on its prey,
let out a long drawn screech.
with its head pointed like a laser light on its prey,
let out a long drawn screech.
The owl flaps it’s wings silently and swings its feet back and forth.
Then, just before its head collides with the ground and the unsuspecting prey,
the barn owl throws it’s head back, thrusts its feet forward
and sinks its razor sharp talons deep into the body of the prey.
There once was a crazy ghost over Poughkeepsie way that got folks
so plumb scared that nobody would stay more than one night in its house.
It was a nice old place, or was,
until the ghost began making its presence known.
It got so no one would enter the house, not even kids on a dare,
and you know what they are like!
Now when my friend Joe heard a fancy old house in Poughkeepsie
was selling dirt cheap, he decided to go have a look.
He asked me about it and I told him about the spook,
but Joe just laughed. "I don't believe in ghosts,"
he said and went to visit the agent selling the house.
Well, the agent gave Joe a key,
but refused to look at the old house with him,
which should have told Joe something. But Joe's a stubborn man
who won't listen to reason. He even waited until after dark
to visit the house for the first time, just to prove his point.
Joe got to the house around nine p.m. and he entered the front hallway.
It was a large entrance and well-proportioned, but neglected-looking,
with creepy cobwebs and dust everywhere.
As Joe paused near the door to get his bearings,
he heard a thump from the top of the staircase facing him.
A glowing leg appeared out of nowhere and rolled down the steps,
landing right next to Joe's feet. Joe gasped out loud and stood frozen to the spot.
An arm appeared and rolled down to meet the leg.
Next came a foot, then another arm, then a hand.
Glowing pieces of body kept popping into existence
and plummeting down the steps towards Joe.
Joe held his ground a lot longer than anyone else ever had,
but when a screaming head appeared at the top of the steps
and started rolling towards him, Joe had had enough.
With a shriek that could wake the dead -
those that weren't already up and haunting the house that is -
Joe ran for his life; out of the house, out of the street,
and right out of town, leaving his car behind him.
He called me the next day and asked me to drive his car
down to the motel where he had spent the night.
Joe was headed back to Manhattan and refused
to come within fifty miles of Poughkeepsie ever again.
The agent gave up trying to sell the house after that,
and the house fell into ruin and was eventually torn down.
One day when I was home alone a parcel was left at the door
I opened it and there was a box. Inside there were puzzle pieces.
I didn't think much of it and left it at that.
Later that night when I was in bed and I heard noises outside my window.
Scared, I decided to solve that strange puzzle to keep my mind off of the spooky noises
As I was putting it together I realized that the puzzle was of my bed room
scared and yet curious I continued to solve the puzzle.
Until I noticed that I was in the puzzle solving a puzzle and
that there was a tall dark man outside my window holding a knife!!
Totally freaked and dazed,
I looked slowly up at my window and there he was
the man from the puzzle looking at me!!
I screamed as loud as I could
and ran into the lounge and tried to tell mum what had happened.
She completely ignored me like I was invisible or something.
That was when I realized she COULDN'T see me.
Horrified I ran outside only to feel a sharp pain right in my back
I turned expecting the man from the puzzle.
As soon as our eyes met.........I woke
Ghoul Eveening 
One morning, John Sullivan found himself walking along a street downtown.
He could not explain what he was doing there,or how he got there, or where he had been earlier.
He didn't even know what time it was.
He saw a woman walking toward him and stopped her.
"I'm afraid I forgot my watch," he said, and smiled.
"Can you please tell me the time?"
When she saw him, she screamed and ran.
The he noticed that other people were afraid of him.
When they saw him coming, they flattened themselves against a building,
or ran across the street to stay out of his way.
"There must be something wrong with me," John thought.
"I'd better go home."
He hailed a taxi, but the driver took one look at him and sped away.
"This is crazy!" he said to himself.
John did not understand what was going on, and it scared him.
"Maybe someone at home can come and pick me up." he thought.
He found a telephone and called home, expecting his wife to answer.
Instead, a strange voice answered.
"Is Mrs. Sullivan there?" he asked.
"I'm sorry, she isn't," the voice said.
"Her husband died a few days ago in a horrible car crash,
she's at his funeral."
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