Spooky Stories For Halloween Book 1

By Ron Thomas and Shirley Sydenham

Ghosts, goblins and screaming skulls are just some of the scary characters to be encountered in this collection of spooky stories. Ideal for reading at Halloween or at any time if a fright is what you are after.
You will get goosebumps as flesh eating goblins chase an old man through a dark and gloomy forest. Your spine will tingle as two brave kids do battle with an evil witch as she tries to return to their attic.
On a camping trip a group of girls are told a story about an innocent woman hanged for witchcraft. Is it now the zombie that stalks the forest, terrifying the girls?
The stories open doors to vampires, a headless woman and many other scary, haunting and mysterious happenings. Prepare to scare yourself silly with these bone chilling, creepy tales.
These stories by experienced storytellers Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas, ideal for reading or telling aloud and will delight children from ages 8+

• Language: English
• Publisher: kidcyber
• Release date: Apr 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463931219

Ron Thomas

Ronald G. Thomas, aka Ron Thomas, was born in the early part of 1975 in Maryland. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with two bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics as well as a minor in GIS (Geographic In-formation Systems). When it comes to experience, there is no better teacher than life. Where there is life, there is hope.

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Spooky Stories for Halloween

Book 1

Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas

Copyright © 2019 by Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas

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Contents

Vampire Story

The Curse of the Bunyip

The Screaming Skulls

The Golden Leg

The Bloody Hand

Vampire Story

A thin crescent moon floated high in the sky in the midst of ragged black clouds. Watery moonlight disappeared from time to time as the wind swept the clouds across the sky. Trees between the graveyard and the house thrashed about and the sound woke Julia.

She got out of bed and went to the window. The darkness was occasionally broken by the moon's light and shadows danced in the graveyard below like strange nightmare creatures. Julia shivered and reached up to pull the curtains closed. As she did so, two small bright lights flashing through the blackness caught her eye and she paused. The lights disappeared, only to reappear moments later a little closer to the small stone fence which separated the graveyard from the house.

'A rabbit,' she thought as she closed the curtains and returned to her bed.

Sometime later Julia woke again. The curtains billowed into the room. A cold, icy wind chilled her. Again she climbed out of