Horror Halloween -- Part 1: The Horror Halloween Setting

Ah, the Horror Halloween. That's what we call it back in the mountains of the Ozarks in middle America, somewhere in Middle Earth (did you read Tolkien's Hobbit?).

It was a dark night with no moon. And it was raining. Not cats and dogs, but little drops falling out of the sky. Little drops on a mission to confuse, to redirect you into the swamps and bogs.

That is the setting of the Horror Halloween. A true night of horror in the mountains. A Halloween night with nothing hallowed about it.

Horror Halloween -- Part 2: The Dogs of Halloween?

Um, Halloween dogs?OK, I'm not the only Halloween nut in the world.

I don't think any of these dogs were at Horror Halloween though.They are too cute!Did you see what Horror Halloween did to me?Did you check out my picture?

Anyway, here are the dogs:

http://halloweencostumesfordogs.bestinfofind.com/

PS. As long as I am giving you a Halloween link, here are some more. Enjoy!

http://halloweenwitch.blogspot.com/

http://halloween-card-ideas.blogspot.com/

http://ezinemarketingcenter.com/scaryhalloween/

http://halloweencraftsandprojects.blogspot.com/

Horror Halloween -- Part 3: Outside the House

So, I bet you thought that prior post about dogs was not releveant to Horror Halloween. Ah, but this story is full of surprises!

We lived in a nice two bedroom, two porch house with decorated cardboard nailed to the wallsand tar paper nailed to the outside walls. The bathroom was an outhouse conveniently located just out the back door. The roof didn't leak much, but I can't say the same about the barn roof.

This post is called "Horror Halloween -- Outside the House". But we weren't outside the house. It was. Or was it a they? Or what?We were inside the house, cozy and warm despite the weather outside.

We didn't go out that Halloween. Would you, in that weather? Besides we were living in the middle of the forest. There was not another house visible in any direction, not matter which way you looked. No matter if you stood on the roof top and looked in every direction. I hope, though, that you wouldn't have stood on the rooftop. It surely would have caved in becuase the timbers holding up the roof were pretty rotten. If you did that we surely would have had to spend the next several nights in the barn while we repaired the roof.

Anyway, the point is that everywhere you looked you could see only trees, and a small lawn around the house, our castle.

So there we were, nestled in our living room by the fire while outside the weather was wild with a howling wind and a stinging rain. But we were cozy and comfortable. No hint whatsoever of the Horror Halloween to come.

Then we heard it. Outside. It sounded like a big freight train rushing towards us!

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What no dogs? So that prior post WAS irrelevant!

No, not so. Look for dogs later in the story of the Horror Halloween.

Horror Halloween -- Part 4: The Terrible Scream

So there we were safe within our hillbilly mansion, cozy inside by the fire, safe from the raging weather outside, when suddenly we heard this huge freight train roaring down on our little house.

At least it sounded like a freight train. As you will learn later in this story of the Horror Halloween, it did not turn out to be a freight train. Actually there are no train tracks anyway in that forest. But it sure sounded like a freight train. And it scared the …. Never mind. Suffice it to say that we were pretty horrified by the loud and unusual sound and by the thought of a train crushing our poor house and its inhabitants.

Well we weren’t in the mood to be crushed to death by a strange train invading our forest. But we were paralyzed by the horror of the situation. In short, we could not move.

As we sat there immobilized, waiting for our immanent death, we heard above the massive roar of the train, a scream so loud, so piercing, and so horrible that it made the hair on my head stand up. Now that is pretty hard to do because I am bald. But there is some hair and I tell you, it was standing straight up.

Just getting to this point in my story makes the hair stand up even now as I remember the Horror Halloween. I only have one hair left but it is as straight up as the sun at noon at the equator. I tell you I got the shivers and shakes now, and I am going to have to take a break from the Horror Halloween story now.

I will try to continue the horror tomorrow after I have composed myself a little.

Horror Halloween -- Part 5: The Halloween Food

There is this blog about Halloween Food Fun:

http://halloweenfoodfun.blogspot.com/

Now that is a good place to go if you want to have fun with Halloween food.

But let me tell you not all Halloween food is fun. Especially if you are the food!

And that is exactly what we thought when we heard that terrible scream on the Horror Halloween night. That is why even today, as I remember that scream I need to take a break and compose my self. I need to wait until the one hair on my head can relax and not be straight up before I can continue.

In fact, remembering that Horror Halloween scream made my single hair stand straight up again. So I must stop now until my hair is relaxed and once again covering up at least part of my baldness. When I continue I will not mention the scream again, otherwise I will never get to the end of my story.

In the meantime you can read something entirely different, something about fun:

http://www.dhalloween.com/

PS: There is a site that links to this blog. It has more Halloween stuff you might want to check out.

http://ezinemarketingcenter.com/scaryhalloween/blogs.html

Here are two samples from them:

http://halloween-cards.blogspot.com/ and

http://halloween-eyes.blogspot.com/

Horror Halloween -- Part 6: The Thing

Well, now that my hair is relaxed let me continue with my story of the night of Horror Halloween.

In the back, and on both sides of the house there are hills. If you were being chased by some terrible being would you try to run up the hills to escape it, or run on the flat land out front?

We chose the front way to escape. We ran out of the living room, through the kitchen and into the enclosed front porch. I opened the front door and started to run out when I saw the thing. It was a purple face, grotesqe and huge and truely horrible and frightening.

My body, not my mind, automatically threw me back. I landed flat on my back on the floor, out of breath, white and fearing a horrible immediate death. My body started thrashing and my legs involuntarily kicked the door shut.

Of course the door was no protection from this beast. The face itself was larger than the door! But at least I could no longer see that cragged horrible purple face.

Then I realized we were trapped! The horrible beast could pick us up easily if we were trying to run up the hills. And there it was right out the front door. On Horror Halloween night we were trapped by this terrible menace.

Horror Halloween -- Part 7: Trapped

Trapped! Trapped on Horror Halloween night in the middle of the forest with steep hills on 3 sides and a huge purple face on the other.

Do you know the horror of being trapped by a monstor that looks sure to kill you. I tell you from my personal experience, it is worse than a quick death. The poets talk about a thousand little deaths. But this was a thousand big deaths, but still left alive to experience further horors.

It was then that we heard the dogs shrieking.

We had two dogs. No nice little Halloween costumes for them. No they were good hillbilly dogs. A little white dog that we could see popping above the tall grass in the fields every so often as she raced here and there as she was hunting. And a big solid German Shepard that could guard any isolated hillbilly house left alone while the owners were out. If we weren't home just the look of her would keep away any but the best of our friends.

When you hear your best guard dog shriek in terror you know that you are in trouble. If you have a dog you know how much they love you and how much you love them. So when I heard them shrieking on that night of Horror Halloween I grabbed a fireplace log, one end still burning, and ran for the front door where I had seen that huge craggy purple face of horror.

Horror Halloween -- Part 8: The Dogs and The Monster

I opened the front door and saw that Horror Halloween face turned away from me and towards the direction of the shrieking dogs. I could not see the dogs because that huge face, or back of the head which now blocked almost all of the view.

I swung the burning log with all of my strength and brought it down with full force on the back of that gruesome head. Now you might imagine that the force exerted by a human could not do any serious damage to such a monster. And you would be right. The blow itself did little damage to that giant horrible head.

Instead it turned to look to see what had hit it. When it did so the log got caught in one of the deep crags on the side of its face, and I, still holding tight to the log, was swung with the swing of that purple head. Head, log and I all moved at the same time -- head turning quickly, log caught and carried with the swing of the head, and me, holding on to the log and flung around behind the monsters head, which was now turned and looking where I used to be.

As for me I was now behind the head still, having been flung around in a 180 degree turn and landing on the not so soft ground. It was then that the dogs saw me and they knew I was in mortal danger from the Horror Halloween monster.

Dogs will give up their life for you (if you are their superior "dog"). The dogs shrieking turned to growling and the quickest dog, the little white dog, attacked the monster. I watched, still dazed by my sudden meeting with the ground, as the little dog rushed to the monster and started to bite it.

The monster turned its attention to the little dog, jerked back and spit a huge gob of green slime on the poor little dog. The little dog just quivered and fell over. I don't want to go into the horrible details of that brave little dogs death. It brings tears to my eyes even now as I remember the night of Horror Halloween.

I cannot continue now, I will regain my composure and return tomorrow with more about the Horror Halloween.

Horror Halloween -- Part 9: The Attack of the Big Dog

Have you ever seen a mad dog? I don't mean a dog that is infected with rabies, or one that is just plain crazy. I mean a dog that is very, very angry. On that Horror Halloween night our big German Shepard was very angry. She had just seen her master flung to the ground and hurt, and her best dog friend murdered.

She growled and leaped up at that purple face. She bit into the lower lip and hung there still suspended in the air, biting the purple lip, growling and scratching the fearsome face with her strong nails.

The purple face looked startled, but otherwise did not move.

The big dog continued holding on and growling and scratching. Then she fell to the ground at the bottom of that monstrous face. In her mouth she had a chunk of the fearsome monster's lower lip, a chunk about the size of my head.

The Horror Halloween monstor started screaching a high pitched deafening scream. The green slime that killed our little dog started oozing out of the monsters lip, where the chunk was gone. It was like a putrid disgusting kind of blood.

That loud shriek from the monster was too much for even our brave dog, and she ran behind the house. I regained my wits and followed her as fast as I could.

The monster continued to scream and started babbling something we could not understand. It sounded like a wounded child calling for help from its parents.

Horror Halloween -- Part 10: Recollections

The big dog and I cowered behind the house, hiding from the screaming monster on Horror Halloween night.

Suddenly, I don't know why, I remembered that it was Halloween. I remembered past Halloweens when I was a kid and stuffed myself with candy, so my parents would not take it away when I got home. Or the tricks I played as a teenager. Fun Halloweens.

Halloween parties and their decorations, like here http://halloweendecorating.blogspot.com/ and Halloween cards in elementary school like this one http://halloween-ecards.blogspot.com/ or this one http://halloween-card-ideas.blogspot.com/

But my recollections were interrupted by an ominous sound coming from every direction.

Horror Halloween -- Part 11: Shoosh, Shoosh

Shoosh, shoosh came the sound from all sides, as if it was closing in on us on that Horror Halloween night.

I looked around. It was closing in on us! From every direction I could see!

Huge, huge purple faces coming through the trees, 3 and 4 times the size of the one at the door. Angry faces!

They came shooshing through the trees like huge plastic bags filled with water, the faces deforming to squeeze between the trees. The deformation of the faces was horrible, but not as horrible as seeing one of those faces without any deformation coming towards us.

"Their baby", I thought. That huge monster out by the front door oozing green slime from its torn purple lower lip must be one of their babies!

"We have had it" I said to my now cowering dog. "Life is over".

There was obviously no escape. We were surrounded by these unhappy purple monsters coming at us from every direction. Their bodies fromed a jello wall, but a jello that kills. And they could deform their bodies to pass through very small openings, smaller than I could fit through.

On that Horror Halloween night I hoped for a quick death like that of my little dog.

Horror Halloween -- Part 12: Sucked In the Purple Ooze

They came oozing forward on that Horror Halloween night, closer and closer to my once brave but now cowering dog and I.

We pressed our backs against the house wall, trapped, and watched in a trance as the gigantic menacing purple faces came towards us.

Onwards they slithered, a purple wall of cragged faces so huge that they towered over the trees. As they came closer they became packed ever tighter together. As they became more and more packed their faces became thinner and thinner. I thought that they might become so tightly packed that they would explode and their lethal green slime would bury us.

They continued pressing closer and closer -- closer to us and closer to each other. As they came to the edge of the lawn they were so tightly packed together that their faces became distorted, thin vertical poles with huge noses sticking out.

We watched terrified as they advaced to us until finally they were towering over us on that Horror Halloween night.

With a deafening roar they charged upon us and sucked us into that purple gelatinous mass.

Horror Halloween -- Part 13: And Now, YOU...

It was ages ago that we were sucked into those purple faces on Horror Halloween.

In the time that passed they assimilated my guard dog and myself into their flesh and regurgitated us as ugly purple faced monsters. Now every Halloween we join with our repulsive purple faced brethren and on Halloween we go out with them, not trick or treating, but to find more humans to assimilate and turn into purple faces so we can expand and perpetuate Horror Halloween, which is now spreading everywhere across the globe.

The purpose of telling you this story, and telling it little by little, was so we could get a fix on you as you read it. We have now located you and we will be visiting you some Halloween night so you can experience your own Horror Halloween and become one of us.

So thank you for taking the time to read this, and we will be seeing you soon!

In the meantime you might enjoy reading some more Horror Halloween stories by different authors. They are free, just go to http://www.nochargeinfo.com/ and click on Halloween Stories.

They will keep you busy for a while and keep you from thinking about your own coming Horror Halloween...