Halloween Short

A classic collection of short stories to thrill and delight. Watch out for the twist in the tale.

Arranged marriage-✔ Dead old husband- ✔ Younger smoking hot groundskeeper- ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Ava Hartman craves a new start, a second chance at independence. The arranged marriage to her disinterested, uncaring husband is finally over. The last thing Ava wants is another man, especially not a much younger one. But the burning passion that ignites every time Kit Reeves breathes her name is impossible to resist. Kit would be a lot easier to ignore if Ava didn't already know the taste of his lips, the feel of his rough hands on her body. Ava tries to fight their chemistry. If only ...

I've never been impressed with Halloween. But how can I say no when my neighbor and longtime crush, Sierra Suerez, invites me to her place for a Halloween party? Little did I know that Sierra had something more planned for her, me, and her husband.

Here are three stories that will make you chuckle and shiver at the same time. Spirits can be funny when they turn out to have issues and problems of their own, and the authors of these stories, John Kendrick Bangs and H. G. Wells, have a fine time putting smiles on our faces - and wiping them off again!

Mean Pumpkin is a short story about a selfish bully pumpkin who undergoes a transformation at Halloween.

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.

Jordan and Amy are persistent in their effort to uncover the mystery of the ghosts that haunt their house. The ghostly boy and girl appear time and time again, and the boy states that their father, Mr. Walter Morgan, is not responsible for their deaths. Then who was responsible for their deaths? Determined to find out what happened on that fateful day in 1962, Jordan and Amy investigate further, and finally, the ghostly boy reveals the truth.

When a mysterious, Halloween-themed attraction comes to the town of Bay's End, everyone is dying to pay a visit in Edward Lorn's The Scare Rows, a short-story selection from Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror.