Halloween Stories

Story 1: Dead Reckoning – Deputy Anderson is out patrolling the back country roads on Halloween, to make sure the kids have aren’t still out raising hell.  That’s when he happens upon a badly beaten Randy Hoover.  Who did this and will Randy be ok or not?

Story 2: From Beyond the Grave – Young Mikey, Michelangelo as his Dad calls him, comes upon a big surprise on Halloween night when cutting through a graveyard.

Story 3: A Halloween Nightmare – Colby is a college senior who’s looking forward to dressing up in his costume and spending Halloween having a good time at a gay bar.  However, his evening of fun quickly turns into an enduring nightmare, but will it ever end?

Story 4: Trick Or Treat? –  Kerry is very unhappy and hates school because he is being picked on by his peers.  Things come to a head on Halloween when an incident leads Kerry to decide he’s finally had enough.  What is he about to do?

Story 5: Role Reversal – J.J. dislikes gays and makes life miserable for them.  That is until Halloween, when he suddenly realizes he is one of them.  How will he handle this new development and will the same things happen to him that he’s done to others?

Story 6: Revenge – Hunter Benjamin is gay and has had a rough time at his school in Texas. Unexpectedly, his father announces he has accepted a new job and the family will be moving to Maryland and explains they will live in an older, remodeled home in the suburbs. Once they get there, Hunter discovers a boy who used to live in the house was killed back in the 1980s and now haunts the property. How will Hunter and his family cope with this situation?

Story 7: You Never Can Say Goodbye – Mason meets Clark one night after going to a gay bar.  Clark seems to be perfect for him and they eventually hook up, but shortly after Mason moves in with Clark things begin to change.  The relationship doesn't work out and Mason tries to end it, but Clark doesn't want that to happen.  Will this situation ever resolve itself or should Mason get as far away from Clark as possible?

Story 8: The Naked and the Dead – Christopher Cordes was never able to celebrate Halloween because his mom thought it was devil worship. She would tell her son the story about several boys who'd gone missing on Halloween when she was younger, so when Chris was older, he decided to find out if that story was true. He started his own investigation, but what did he find? Was the story true, or had she just made it all up. Chris was shocked by what he discovered.

Story 9: City of the Dead – Jamie’s dad died unexpectedly and he never got to say goodbye.  This bothered him because the last time he’d been with his dad they had a disagreement that never got resolved.  Jamie learns that there’s a place in New Orleans where he might be able to rectify the situation and make contact with his dad’s spirit, but he doesn’t want to go alone.  He asks his friend Drew to join him, and Drew agrees, and together they embark on an adventure that doesn’t go exactly as planned.

Story 10: Shifting Horrors – Brock decides to go to a Halloween Party sponsored by a local gay group, but it doesn’t turn out exactly the way he’d planned.

Story 11: A Truly Terrifying Experience – John and Chris met in high school, but it wasn’t until their junior year in college when they experience a truly terrifying experience after a trip to Alcatraz just before Halloween.  You’ll have to read the story to find our what happened to them.

Story 12: A Strange Homecoming – Adam Cummings returns home after spending four years away at college, two more years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and then taking even more time to travel in Europe.  At first he doesn’t run into any of the other students he went to high school with, but when he does he has some unsettling experiences.

Story 13: Unusual Trick-or-Treaters – Brian Hayes just finished greeting the last trick-or-treater to come to his house when he decides to go outside to see if anyone pulled any pranks.  At that point, he sees two more trick-or-treaters in the distance, and the next thing he remembers is that he’s waking up on the ground two hours later.  He has no idea what happened until he contacts his friend, a psychologist, who takes him to a colleague to see if he can recover his lost memories.

Story 14: A Path Less Taken – Ben and Caleb Webster, a married gay couple, go out for a walk on Halloween before the trick-or-treaters arrive.  It’s a walk they take every night, but this time they end up in a place they barely recognize.

Story 15: Greed and Betrayal ­– Hank returns home after getting out of the army after World War II, lands a job, and has a family.  When he’s taking his three sons out on Halloween, they begin experiencing some very unusual events – things they can’t explain.  When they wake up the next morning, they witness the extent of what they were experiencing the previous evening and learn what was behind it.

Story 16: Victorian Terror – The Morgan family moves into an old Victorian mansion that was not only the home of the original builder, Dr. Schneider, but he also used it as a private hospital.  Mrs. Morgan is planning on turning the place into a Bed & Breakfast, but what happens on Halloween night may change her mind.

Story 17: Seeking Justice – A young police detective, Jeremy Krivyanik, is assigned to investigate the murder of a 16 year-old-gay boy, Scott Mahon, a week before Halloween.  Will he be able to track down the murder and what will it take to complete his task successfully?

Story 18: Unwanted Perks – A high school senior, Connor Norwood, gets a job working at a Haunted House so he can earn some money that he can use to buy Christmas presents for his family.  It doesn’t turn out exactly as he plans, because a spirit is taking objection to what he’s doing.  So, how will this work out?

Story 19: Echoes From the Past – A gay couple, Brendan and Trevor (MacGregor) Kiley, buys an older home and begins to renovate it, but they soon discover they are not alone.  What happened that led them to believe this and how is it going to work out?

Story 20: Strange Things Are Happening – Colin Thurlow is traveling back from a business conference in Jacksonville, Florida on Halloween when his car starts acting up.  He drives to the nearest town, St. Marys, Georgia, in order to get it repaired and learns that he will have to stay overnight.  He takes a room in the 102-year-old Riverview Hotel and during the night he begins to realize the hotel is haunted.  So, what led him to draw this conclusion?

Story 21: Unscheduled Recess – Marcus Whaley is a fourth grade teacher at a neighborhood elementary school, and on Halloween he begins to notice some strange things happening.  They occur on the playground first, but then he has a frightening encounter inside the school.  What happened and how will it turn out?

Story 22:  The House Sitter - Cade Bennett is a college student and he happens to see an online ad for a house sitter.  It’s only for one week and sounds like it will be easy money, but the week he’s hired for includes Halloween and he soon learns there’s more to this job than he expected.

Story 23: In a Stupor - Cooper Trottier and Caleb Ballinger are best friends and they just graduated from high school.  Following the ceremony they attend several parties, ending up at the home of Ryder Squires.  Maybe it was one party they should have skipped.

Story 24: Salem Revisited - George Corwin wins a special election to become Sheriff of Essex County Massachusetts, and on Halloween he learns the job includes more than he was expecting.  Maybe he should have studied the history of the county before he decided to run.

Story 25: Working the Night Shift - Royce Hunter is a recent graduate from a Nursing School and it isn’t long before he’s hired to work the night shift at a nursing home.  His first shift begins on Halloween and he soon learns that there is more than just the elderly patients in the building.

Story 26: The Fraternity House - Daniel Jamison belongs to Delta Gamma Phi fraternity and they’re planning to hold a party on Halloween night.  Unfortunately, things don’t go as planned, and you’ll have to read this short story it you want to discover what went wrong.