Weird Short Stories

Halloween Horror Story 🌟

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This story is obviously about Halloween. I made it kind of scary but if I were to rate it from 1 to 10 it would be less than a 5. However, if you get scared REALLY easily, I suggest reading it in a non-creepy environment. Enjoy it as always, and if you like it tell your friends! I want to get more readers because someday I want to have some sort of writing career, and the more readers I have the more criticism I will get, which will help me know what to fix and how.

The day before Halloween, Madilyn invited some friends over to celebrate Halloween. She invited America and Carrot to watch scary Halloween movie. First they started off with "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", because what Halloween movie marathon is it if you don't play Charlie Brown?

"You know, I actually saw the Great Pumpkin once," Madilyn says.

"No you didn't, the Great Pumpkin doesn't even exist Madi," Carrot scoffs.

"No, I really did!" Madi exclaims.

In defense, America adds in," Yeah, the Great Pumpkin is real. My dad told me he saw it when he was younger."

"Ha! You're dad was messing with you America, that's what dads do. Did he get a picture?" Carrot asks.

"Well... no."

"Does he have a video.?"

"No, but--"

"Then he never saw the Great Pumpkin. It's just a fairy tale." Carrot interjects.

"It is, too! We'll prove it to you, right America?" Madilyn says.

"Yes we will! We'll go out to my uncle's pumpkin patch tomorrow and sleep there with a video camera."

That decided, they finished their marathon and went to bed at 3 in the morning. When they woke up, they made plans for their adventure. They borrowed Carrot's good video camera because they didn't want bad quality or for it to die on them, they brought food, sleeping bags, blankets, and a flashlight.

That night at 5, they all went to America's uncle's pumpkin patch. There were acres upon acres of land, all covered in pumpkins. There were ones so big they were the size of feed barrels, and ones so tiny you could fit them in the palm of your hand.

Carrot decided to stay with them until it started to get dark, then she'd go trick-or-treating.

"If you end up seeing this 'Great Pumpkin' make sure the video camera is on and call me right away, okay?"

Madilyn and America nod their heads in understanding and then all three of them go in search of a spot to hide out. They find a spot with mostly smaller pumpkins and rearrange them into a wall around the clearing. They then eat their food, which mainly consists of candy corn, and wait.

As the sun sets the patch grows darker and darker, the shadows longer and longer.

Unsettled with all the strangely shaped shadows, Carrot decides to leave and get a head start collecting candy.

Soon Madilyn and America are alone, surrounded by a pumpkin wall in absolute darkness, their only light coming from the pale glow of the crescent moon. Then from out of nowhere Madilyn, in one fluid motion, takes something out of her pocket, flicks it open, and grabs a tiny pumpkin from the top of the wall. Startled, America shrieks, only seeing the glint of metal in Madilyn's hand.

"Relax America, I'm just gonna carve a pumpkin!" Madilyn reassures her.

"Oh, I knew that." America replies sheepishly.

"Here," Madilyn says as she tosses America another object from her pocket," let's see who can carve the best one."

They then proceed to have a pumpkin carving contest, gathering the pumpkin guts in the center of their clearing. Slowly, the wall dwindles and their clearing becomes filled with the mutilated pumpkins. Madilyn and America are having a great time, but then they start to get tired. They decide America should take the first watch while Madilyn sleeps. They set up the camera and America takes the flashlight in hand.

Soon, Madilyn starts to snore softly, the only noise besides the hooting of owls.

After an hour, America decides it's Madilyn's turn. The moon is at it's highest, and even the owls seem to have gone silent. Outside their clearing there isn't a trace of movement, everything still and quiet. Before she can wake Madilyn she feels a cold breeze, making her shiver down to her very bones. Goosebumps form on her arms and legs, and a tingling feeling goes up her spine, filling her with an unreasonable amount of dread. No ordinary breeze should be able to do this.

What's very odd, is that despite the breeze not a single leaf rustles.

America freezes where she is, heart pounding and muscles frozen in place, petrified. When the breeze passes, America tries to move; but she can't.

Madilyn wakes with a terrified shriek and rolls over, arranging herself into the fetal position with her back against a large pumpkin, one that she had carved.

The only thing America is able to do is stare as slowly, ever so slowly, the pumpkin turns it's glowing-- yes, glowing-- eyes to Madilyn, still cowering in the fetal position, unaware of what's happening behind her back.

When the pumpkin stops moving, the other pumpkins take up the motion. They all turn to Madilyn, eyes glowing green and full of malicious intent.

Madi

It was a faint, hoarse whisper that came from all around them.

Madi

Madi!

MADI!

It was now a chant, growing louder and faster until it seemed to become one word.

MADIMADIMADIMADIMADIMADI

Slowly, Madilyn seemed to realize what was going on and her ashen face looked up. She screamed a scream that was raw, primal terror.

She rolled backwards, into the gaping mouth of the pumpkin behind her, and instantly it closed its mouth, like a venus flytrap that just caught its first fly in days.

They then all turn towards America and begin their chant again.

America...

America.

America!

AMERICA!

AMERICAAMERICAAMERICAAMERICAAMERICAAMERICA

America is still petrified in place, and slowly the pumpkins all hop forward and form a circle around her. In front of her, a tiny, innocent looking pumpkin hops up to her with a smile and friendly eyes, glowing a less poisonous green than the rest.

You must die America, the little pumpkin whispers, and then it charges forward with a roar, its face transforming into a gruesome monster, and it's eyes practically nuclear.

The next day, Carrot goes to the pumpkin patch to check on her friends, a triumphant smile on her face, knowing they had failed to prove the existence of the Great Pumpkin.

When she got there, she just had time to take in the jack-o-lanterns gathered around an enormous pumpkin, with a face on either side, each looking suspiciously like the terrified faces of her friends, and the two mutilated bodies on the ground, lifeless with panic-stricken faces and bite marks on their arms and legs, before she died of a heart attack.