Scary Halloween Stories

Scary Halloween Stories includes Halloween selections from Billy Wells Horror collections, Black As Night, Shivers & Other Nightmares, Don't Look Behind You, & Scary Stories-Vols. 1-5, and Scare Factory.

If you like being scared and really want to feel creepy, you might want to read this book by candlelight with life-size monster mannequins sitting around you for a real chill. If you're ready, let's go to places you never thought you’d go... where the whisper of a spider’s web lingers on the back of your neck too long, and the icy fingers of something dead send shivers up your spine that makes your blood run cold.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
SOMETHING IN THE ATTIC:
Norma went to the attic to get her costume for Halloween. After reading from an old book that belonged to a grandma who was burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials, she lapsed into unconsciousness. (From Scary Stories 1)
THE PARTY:
A man crashes a Halloween party mysteriously held in a dilapidated mansion unoccupied for decades. (From Scary Stories 5)
THE RIPPER:
Gang members who played a prank on an elderly man on Halloween are harassed by someone calling himself "The Ripper. (From Scary Stories 3)
RED HATS MASQUERADE BALL:
A retired psychopath's favorite past time is wreaking havoc on people she doesn't know. She can't wait to blind and disfigure a group of ladies with an exploding gag gift at their upcoming Halloween party. (From Scary Stories-1)
SOMETHING IN THE HOUSE:
Randolph and Francene have come from the cemetery with some friends to visit a house where they lived when they were alive. (From Don't Look Behind You)
MASQUERADE:
An uninvited guest attends the gala Halloween party of the Madeira Club held at a castle in Transylvania. (From Black As Night)
THE VAMPIRE CLUB:
A man with a severe phobia for horror feels old psychotic tendencies returning when his teenage son and daughter are swept up in the vampire craze. (From Shivers & Other Nightmares)
VIRAL:
A freelance photographer makes his living selling brutal photographs of victims at crime scenes to local newspapers and web sites. (From Scare Factory)
SOMETHING IN THE SKY:
Strange things happen to two college students on lovers lane on Halloween night after a meteor cuts a path through a nearby cemetery. (From Scary Stories 3)
BLACK AS NIGHT:
Two farm boys witness a masked rider on a black horse removing a screaming woman from a supposedly haunted house on Halloween night. (From Black As Night)