Halloween Lurks Ahead
Prepare to be Haunted ...
Halloween is just around the corner. You know what that means.
For kids, Halloween night is a time to go door to door trick or treating. They dream of scoring king-sized candy bars and hope to avoid the dentist who hands out toothbrushes. For teens and adults, it’s a chance to don creative costumes and throw parties. At least you’re sure it’s only a costume. That’s a grotesque mask and not their real face, right? That isn’t actual human blood dripping from actual fangs, right?
For the Macabre Monday crew, Halloween means one thing.
Tis the season for sharing spooky stories.
We are so excited to serve up a dose of Halloween night stories through our Halloween Writing Contest. The entry window for the contest closes at the stroke of midnight (PDT) on Monday. We’re deeply grateful to everyone who entered a story. Shaina, Jon, and I are eager to see which of your stories will terrify our guest judges and gift them with recurring nightmares.
We will announce the contest results in an upcoming newsletter. Stay tuned for further details …
… in the meantime, we’d like to pose a couple of questions to the Macabre Monday community. How do you celebrate Halloween? What are some of your favorite Halloween traditions?
Feel free to share with us in the comments below.
The Weekly Digest
A selection of last week’s Macabre Monday posts from our team.
Gather around our campfire as we highlight memorable stories, poems, articles, and notes from last week’s Macabre Monday offerings:
- shared Animal Magic, a spooky tale inspired by a friend finding a “witch mark” above the fireplace in his house. (A witch mark is a symbol carved into an entry point into a building — like a door, window, hearth, or cellar — to prevent evil entities from sneaking inside.)
A ringing doorbell brings an unexpected ghostly visitor in Trick or Treat,
’s engrossing short story.
I always loved Choose Your Own Adventure stories as a kid and
offers up one such story with some decidedly macabre twists in Malefic Matching #1.
- dropped the first part of The Keeper — his spooky new three-part serial.
- presented part two of Madisonville Murder which sees Chris battle demonic thugs while out to prove Cynthia’s suicide was really a murder.
- shared the final episode of Tracking Blood — his engrossing apocalyptic serial spanning 24 episodes.
Finally,
sends readers out on The Final Trip, a fun, violent tale about a ghost seeking revenge.
Have a horror tale you’d like to share with the Macabre Monday community? Post a story link to our weekly chat thread or share the link on Notes and tag the MM team (, , ) in your post.
Door to door with the kids, then home to watch The Shining (while the kids are sleeping)!
usually carve a pumpkin and leave it out so the local kids will know to come up to the door - however since the bloodbath last year, there's not many fresh tender ones left so I think I will be eating my own body weight in chocolate bats.