Spooky Stories For Halloween Book 2

By Ron Thomas and Shirley Sydenham

This Book 2 of Spooky Stories For Halloween by Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas
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 in Spooky Stories For Halloween Boo 1 and Book 2 are by experienced storytellers Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas and are ideal for reading or telling aloud and will delight children from ages 8+

• Language: English
• Publisher: kidcyber
• Release date: Apr 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463902523

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 2

Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas

Copyright © 2019 by Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas

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Contents

Witches at School

The Zombie of Sherbrooke Forest

Goblins of the Dark

The Man on the Stairs

What’s in the Basket?

Witches at School

It had all begun on the Halloween dress-up day at school. Everyone had dressed up this year. Even old Mrs Bridges, the art teacher, had made herself a cat mask.

Emily was particularly pleased with her costume. She had found the old black dress in a cupboard in the attic. It had probably belonged to the woman who had lived in the house before Emily's mother had bought it. The dress was long, the sleeves dangled and nearly touched the floor and the hem was jagged. The bodice was beaded with jet beads, and when you looked more closely you could make out a design of stars and crescent moons. It was exactly the way Emily imagined a witch's dress to be.

At lunchtime there had been broomstick races and every class had made a jack-a-lantern to put in a window of the classroom. After lunch everyone had assembled on the oval and paraded in their costumes. Emily's class had darkened the room and told spooky stories for the rest of the afternoon.

After school, Emily rushed in the front door. 'Hi Mum,' she called.

'In here, darling,' called her mother.

Emily found her mother in the spare room she'd set up as a sewing room. Mrs Bowdon was a dressmaker and worked at home.

‘We had a terrific day today. You should have seen all the costumes,