Diaphanous Spirit Ethereal Sprite Dancing on moonbeams Glossy and bright. Floating by freely Uplifting unwound Drifting and wafting Not making a sound. Spiritual Being Spun-silver delight Diaphanous Spirit Spectacular sight! Vaporous Mystic Incantations surround Swirling and swaying And turning around. Gossamer Traveler Translucence alight Releasing Your magic On Hallow’s Eve Night.
13 Days of Halloween: Thrice in One Sitting by Justin Alcala
“One witch can do more harm than a thousand common thieves,” Silas Fear-The-Lord Doddridge recited along the road to Pontybridge village. It was a dreadful afternoon in New England, but three facts rolled Silas out of his inn’s bed on this wet autumn day. First, as the Malleus Maleficarum stated, Those who deny the reality … Continue reading 13 Days of Halloween: Thrice in One Sitting by Justin Alcala
13 Days of Halloween: HiLee Frankenstein by Dylan Jack James
“HiLee Frankenstein” was previously published in Legacy Magazine under the title “What Scares You?” I was four years old when my father and mother first took me trick or treating down our little village street. It was a crisp cool Halloween night and the smell of cherry wood hung in the air from the only … Continue reading 13 Days of Halloween: HiLee Frankenstein by Dylan Jack James
13 Halloween Tales Winners
Here is the list of our 13 Halloween Tales Winners: October 19: Witch Head Shot by David BoyleOctober 20: Autumn Moments by Donna Arthur DownsOctober 21: The Unkindness of Ravens by Regina M. ElliotOctober 22: Edgar Allen Poe by Maureen Mancini AmaturoOctober 23: Bigfoot Halloween by Mary BoneOctober 24: McGinnis and Me by KD SmithOctober … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales Winners
13 Halloween Tales: HiLee Frankenstein by Dylan Jack James
“HiLee Frankenstein” was previously published in Legacy Magazine under the title “What Scares You?” I was four years old when my father and mother first took me trick or treating down our little village street. It was a crisp cool Halloween night and the smell of cherry wood hung in the air from the only … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: HiLee Frankenstein by Dylan Jack James
13 Halloween Tales: Thrice in One Sitting by Justin Alcala
“One witch can do more harm than a thousand common thieves,” Silas Fear-The-Lord Doddridge recited along the road to Pontybridge village. It was a dreadful afternoon in New England, but three facts rolled Silas out of his inn’s bed on this wet autumn day. First, as the Malleus Maleficarum stated, Those who deny the reality … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: Thrice in One Sitting by Justin Alcala
13 Halloween Tales: Diaphanous Spirit by Mary Steinberg
Diaphanous Spirit Ethereal Sprite Dancing on moonbeams Glossy and bright. Floating by freely Uplifting unwound Drifting and wafting Not making a sound. Spiritual Being Spun-silver delight Diaphanous Spirit Spectacular sight! Vaporous Mystic Incantations surround Swirling and swaying And turning around. Gossamer Traveler Translucence alight Releasing Your magic On Hallow’s Eve Night.
13 Halloween Tales: The Cemetery by Kirsty Duncan
I always liked old graveyards, peaceful and quiet, familiar places, their histories of families, communities, until that fateful day, when I failed to heed the sentries’ warnings to grave robbers and all who dared walk among the dead, as I descended down the lichen covered steps of the blackened churchyard, read each darkened headstone, walked … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: The Cemetery by Kirsty Duncan
13 Halloween Tales: The Ghost of Baron Von Something R. Other by B. Craig Grafton
“Yep there used to be a coal mine back there on my property. You boys have seen the filled in shaft holes in the ground, those depressions five or six feet deep, and the coal slag piles when you’ve been mushroom hunting back there haven’t you?" The two twelve year old boys nodded their heads … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: The Ghost of Baron Von Something R. Other by B. Craig Grafton
13 Halloween Tales: Wisps in the Wind by Dale Hensarling
This is a tale most frightening and unholy, A tale of scared girls in face-paint and curls, A tale of little boys with capes and sword toys, A tale of hobgoblins, of black cats crossing the road, A tale of spells, elixirs, and warty toads, Of twisted vines and spiderwebs gnarly. Yes! A tale most … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: Wisps in the Wind by Dale Hensarling
Academy of the Heart And Mind 