October Tales: Seven Creepy Stories (Stories to SERIOUSLY Creep You Out Book 1)

by Steve Vernon

  I figured I was safe.

  There was no way that any neighbor would have burned themselves at the stake last year, the year before or the year before that.

  It is a funny story, telling it now – but I want you to know that I felt like ten kinds of stupid hearing about that woman’s crying kids. It showed me that there is another side to Halloween. It is a doorway from the happy of summer to the long bitter wake of cold winter. It is a time of when the old people would carry tribute to their recently dead and their thoughts would turn to the hereafter, and folks would gather around their woodstoves and talk of those who had passed away.

  Halloween wasn’t always candy and trick or treaters.

  Still, the story did have a happy ending.

  I was so pleased with how the graveyard looked that I left it until Christmas before I finally took it down. Early that December, my wife’s sister decided to take advantage of a neighborhood bus tour that was tooling around the local streets admiring the various Christmas lights.

  When they passed our house the tour guide kind of choked on his spit and gasped out “Who the heck lives there – the Adams Family?”

  “No,” my sister-in-law quietly said. “That’s my sister’s house.”

  Any truths that were stretched in the spinning of this yarn probably needed a good workout anyway.

  Yours in storytelling,

  Steve Vernon

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Steve Vernon is a storyteller. The man was born with a campfire burning at his feet. The word "boring" does not exist in this man's vocabulary - unless he's maybe talking about termites or ice augers.

  That’s all that Steve Vernon will say about himself – on account of Steve Vernon abso-freaking HATES talking about himself in the third person.

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  Also By Steve Vernon

  My Regional Books – from Nimbus Publishing

  Haunted Harbours: Ghost Stories from Old Nova Scotia

  Wicked Woods: Ghost Stories from Old New Brunswick

  Halifax Haunts: Exploring the City’s Spookiest Spaces

  Maritime Monsters: A Field Guide

  The Lunenburg Werewolf and Other Stories of the Supernatural

  Sinking Deeper OR My Questionable (Possibly Heroic) Decision to Invent a Sea Monster

  Maritime Murder: Deadly Crimes From the Buried Past

  My E-Books

  Bigfoot Tracks

  Big Hairy Deal

  In the Dark and the Deep – Steve Vernon’s Sea Tales #1

  Harry’s Mermaid – Steve Vernon’s Sea Tales #2

  I Know Why The Waters Of The Sea Taste of Salt – Steve Vernon’s Sea Tales #3

  Flash Virus

  Fighting Words

  Tatterdemon

  Devil Tree

  Gypsy Blood

  The Weird Ones

  Two Fisted Nasty

  Nothing to Lose –Adventures of Captain Nothing, Volume 1

  Nothing Down – Adventures of Captain Nothing, Volume 2

  Roadside Ghosts

  Long Horn, Big Shaggy

  Author: Steve Vernon

  ISBN- 978-1-927765-30-2

  First Printing – October 12, 2014

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