Frightening fables for Halloween!
Kids write Scary Stories for Fright Night
It’s Halloween, time to probe the imaginations of little ones.
Each year, the Idaho Mountain Express gingerly tests the waters
of Fright Night—covering our eyes and wondering what nightmares Blaine County
students have been dreaming.
They write Frightening Fables.
Petrifying poems.
Tantalizing tales.
Scary, scary stories.
Thanks
again to the teachers at Hemingway Elementary School in Ketchum, Hailey Elementary School
and The Community School in Sun Valley for their cooperation in unleashing this torrent of
terror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Neighbors
I came home one day and found
We had new neighbors that were round
Round like a clock they were
They must each have swallowed one—brrr.
I thought they were nice
But I was wrong!
They were bloodsucking vampires
From underground.
They had gotten my parents and
I got a bill—
One hundred dollars
For the bloodsucking thrill.
I had two dollars cash, so they came to my house
In their pockets each carried a mouse.
"Pay us a fool then, my dear."
"I’m a fool. Take me!" I said in tears.
Then my parents came home, and
They were fine.
The vampires said, "Don’t worry. We’re kind."
So they left in a hurry, saying good-bye, and
"Next time don’t be so shy."
by George Hulbert
Fourth grade
The Community School
Eek! Eek!
Happy
Adventures
Leave little
Laughing tricksters
Old and young
Witches and goblins
Excitement and fun
Eek! Eek! Eeking!
Night of trick or treating!
by Misha McGonigal, 8
Third grade
Hailey Elementary School
The Mummy and My Friends
One night I got up. I decided to go get my
friends. I snuck out of my bedroom, I snuck through the living room. I hid behind the
television. Then, I ran behind the table. Nobody saw me! I ran behind the coat rack.
Still, nobody saw me! I got my coat and went outside.
I went to my friend David’s house. I knocked on his window. He
woke up. I told him to get up. So he did. He left a note on his door. It said, "I
will be home in one day. Love, David." He got his coat on and came outside.
I said, "Let’s go get Gregory." So we did. We both
knocked on his window. He woke up. I told him to get his coat on and come outside so he
did. We ran to the cemetery. We got there. We started to play tag.
I saw a stone moving around and it fell down! I heard a squeak. Now,
the tomb was opening. We ran and ran, then we stopped. We saw a MUMMY!
It ran, we ran; we turned, it followed us. We got home. The mummy broke
the door down. We ran. It came after us. It broke down the door. We went upstairs. It did
not know where we went. It sat down and got some milk and some cookies. It started to
watch TV.
We got some string and some rope. We made a lasso with the rope. We
lassoed the mummy. We dragged the mummy to the cemetery and we got him in his tomb. We
buried the tomb.
The End.
by Caleb Crawford
Third grade
Hemingway Elementary School
Halloween
Trick or treating…
Lots of fun
Candy, costumes, ghosts
And ghouls, magic spells,
Potions and skeletons.
Bats and mummies.
Wizards and witches,
Graveyards, screams
And more.
Broken bones,
Blood and gore,
And
Lots of tummy aches.
by Sarah Jane Slater
Third grade
The Community School
Silly Witches
Witches appear on Halloween.
They’re black and ugly and can be mean.
They soar through the air in the night
And give people such a fright.
They chuckle and laugh and play their games,
They also have the strangest names.
Like Witchy-woo
And Twitchy-too.
I think they’re silly names
Don’t you?
So if a witch tries to scare you
Don’t be shy
Just say
"Your name is silly,"
And walk right by.
by Allie Freund
Third grade
Hailey Elementary School
Two boys go Trick-or-Treating
A long time ago there were two boys. They were trick-or-treating when
they saw a house in the woods. They went to the house and knocked on the door.
The door opened, they went in. In the house they saw a coffin. They
opened the coffin and saw a vampire. They were very scared. They shut it very quickly but
they forgot that vampires wake up at night.
They spent the night at the house.
When it was night, the vampire got out of the coffin. When he got out
he saw the boys. He went over to the boys and checked to see if their blood was good and
it was. The vampire was just going to bite the boys when they woke up. When they saw the
vampire, they ran out of the house and went home as quick as they could.
by Peter Atkinson
Third grade
The Community School
Favorite Time of Year
Halloween, oh Halloween
My favorite time of year,
Ghosts, ghouls and goblins are screaming in my ear.
Pumpkins smiling brightly,
Witches in the air and
Cats being frightened by the nymphs with wavy hair.
Halloween, oh Halloween
The best time of year.
You better never miss it
When skeletons appear.
by Pepa Roth
Fifth grade
The Community School
Good Advice
If it’s Halloween night
And you don’t have a kid
Be one.
by Maddie Cordovano, 8
Third grade
Hailey Elementary School
It was a Dream, I think!
I was in my bed one night,
Then I heard a knocking at my window and it filled me with fright.
So I looked out my window, and then I saw a ghost. He was staring
straight at me!
Suddenly he was a Jack-o-lantern. I felt like I was toast!
Then a mummy grabbed me from my window and took me to his home. I tried
to get away, but he stuffed me in a tomb!
Then a witch took the tomb that I was in and dropped me in a pot.
Then before I fell in, a bat grabbed me faster than you would have
thought.
Soon, he dropped me in my bed and there were pumpkins flying around my
head!
Soon the sky filled up with light and I did not have much fright.
Then the bats flew into their cave.
Of course it was all only a dream.
I think!
The end (ooh)
I think.
by Veronica Bruess and Kali Phillips
Third grade
Hemingway Elementary School
Halloween Poem
The moon is round as a Jack-o-lantern,
The trees blow black and bare,
And we go creeping with spooky giggles,
Through the chill, ghostly air.
Whose shadow is that on the haunted ground?
Who’s hiding behind the tree?
Oh, down runs my bad black kitten,
And the shadow is only me!
by Bailey Ireland
Third grade
Hailey Elementary School
A Slight, Chilly Breeze
On Halloween Night
You will get such a fright.
Beware, witches and goblins come about
When lamps and lanterns go out.
The night when, through the trees
There comes to be a
Slight, chilly breeze
The hairs on your neck stand up straight
For you to come is
A horrible fate…..
by Chelsea Vanderpool, 10
Fifth grade
Hemingway Elementary School
Midnight on Halloween
Once upon a midnight dreary
Something came which was very scary.
From the graveyard they did creep
To scare all children while they sleep.
Good night, sweet children
See you soon
During the next Halloween moon.
by Katherine Dembergh
Fifth grade
The Community School
Black Cat
A black cat on Halloween
Can truly be a scary thing.
It’s mean howl will make you shiver,
And down your back will send a quiver!
His hiss will be heard from miles away,
It makes all the hound dogs bay.
But don’t be scared and please don’t yell,
It’s just that my dog stepped on
My cat’s tail.
by Kai Pettengill, 8
Third grade
Hailey Elementary School
A Spooky House
Once there was a spooky house that no one wanted to go in.
Why? I don’t know, but there was a goblin by the door.
It was never there before.
No wonder they don’t want to go in.
There is a witch in the sky.
The wind blew some leaves that rustled in the wind.
It sounded like a ghost!
I ran back home and shut the door
And everything was all right.
by Amanda Gubera
Third grade
Hemingway Elementary School
The Possessed Hand
Once on a dark and gloomy Halloween night, I was
walking down past the graveyard.
Mist was rising out of the ground. I thought I saw somebody disappear
into the ground. I started to walk into the graveyard when out of the mist I saw a giant
possessed hand coming out of the ground.
I started to run (where is a superhero when you need one?).
I ran all the way to my house and my parents were gone so I went up to
my sister’s room and the possessed hand had already gotten her.
I ran so far that I ran to Utah and lived there forever.
by Christian Cairncross
Fifth grade
The Community School
Ooze
T’was the night of Halloween,
The night was dark and green.
I heard a rattle and some ooze,
I heard my parents taking a snooze.
I saw a claw, it grabbed the ooze.
It threw the ooze right at me, but I stumbled out of the way.
Something said BOO!
That gave it away,
There stood my sister.
I said, ‘I knew it was you."
by Christian Dallago
Fourth grade
The Community School
They Could Have Told Me
They could have told me
(I know that they should have)
Why there were kids
Running up the street.
They could have told me
Why my brother was a mummy
And my sister was a witch.
Or why other kids got candy
And I got zip.
They should have told me
Why they carved pumpkins
In funny little ways,
And why my brother got sick
And my sister the same.
They should have told me
What Halloween meant.
They should have told me
(Even though I’m only two!)
by Caroline Fairchild
Fourth grade
The Community School
Trick-or-treating
Once there were some kids and they knocked on the
door and the door opened. An old man said, "What do you want?" The kids said,
"Trick-or-treat!" The man said, "Go away. I don’t celebrate
Halloween!"
The man was grouchy so the kids walked away. Then some other kids came
to the house and said, "Trick-or-treat!" The man said, "Quit bugging
me!"
One of the kids said, "What’s wrong with him? Let’s go
to another house."
Then the kids asked the man, "Would you like to go
trick-or-treating with us? It’s fun!"
The old man said, "Yes!"
by Haleigh Hall
Third grade
Hailey Elementary School
The Black Cat
Once there was a black cat that lived in an old house. He did not like
Halloween, and when Halloween came, he hid under the bed.
One day in October, a smaller cat came, and she also did not like
Halloween. She hid under the bed, too.
Then an older cat came and told them that black cats are supposed to
like Halloween. The little cat said, "So we do not like Halloween." The older
cat said, "Fine, then hide under the bed." And the older cat left.
Four hours went by and the little cat said, "Let’s go try
it."
And both of them had a lot of fun!
by Tawni Padilla
Third grade
Hailey Elementary School
The Haunted House
T’was the night of Halloween
And all through the house
Rang a voice saying Dean
What was it, a mouse?
I rattled with fear
For I didn’t know where this could steer
I heard chains and moans
Oh, no, I’m alone!
Was it a ghost or maybe a ghoul?
What was this sound, was I just a fool?
I scampered to the door
Then heard footsteps galore.
Was it a trick?
But wait, there’s a click
Look, the lights are going on!
Oh, yeah, there’s Ron
This was a trick
The solution started to stick
On this night
Night of this fright
My brother the creep
Made my senses leap.
Next year it’s my turn
To scare
And make all this fair.
But right now it’s time to sleep
And let my great brain keep
My ideas for revenge next year.
by Jessie Curran
Fourth grade
The Community School
