Have you ever stayed at a haunted hotel? Visited a haunted library? Have you ever celebrated Frankenstein Friday or Haunted Refrigerator Night? Do you suffer from nyctohylophobia or phagophobia?
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Click on the name of each article below to read about these things associated with Halloween.
Haunted Hotels in the U.S. – Most everyone has stayed in a hotel at some time. Have you ever stopped to think about all the things that could have happened in the hotel you stayed in? A hotel room is not the same as your bedroom at home. People from many different walks of life have slept there. Did all of them leave the room alive?
Just think, the last occupant of your room could have been a thief, a bank robber, a kidnapper, or a murderer. Possibly a smuggler, a bootlegger, or a gangster used this room as a hideout. Maybe several people who have inhabited this room had evil spirits residing in them, and some of these spirits could have stayed behind. How safe are you in this strange room?
Haunted Libraries in the U.S.A. – Does the ghost of a librarian that just couldn’t bear to be parted from her books frequent the library in your hometown? Does she reside there peacefully unless disturbed? Does she react like the ghost librarian from Ghostbusters if you try to talk to her? Or is she more like the ghost librarian at the Willard Library in Evansville, Indiana? Does she allow herself to be filmed?
Holidays Associated with Halloween – Will you dress up like Frankenstein on Frankenstein Friday? Are you brave enough to clean your refrigerator on Haunted Refrigerator Night? How many caramel apples will you eat on National Caramel Apple Day? Will you drive people crazy with your knock-knock jokes on National Knock-Knock Jokes Day?
One of your characters could start a new trend with one of these lesser-known holidays and make it just as popular as Halloween.
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Phobias Associated with Halloween – For Halloween, authors take advantage of things that scare people. Some write stories that will keep you awake at night; others write stories that scare you for the moment. Any phobia would be appropriate in a Halloween story, but the following ones are more closely associated with this spooky time of year. Write your own scary story using one of the following phobias.
Town Names for Halloween Tales – There is no need to make up a creepy town name for your Halloween tale when there are so many already in existence. One or two of these unusual names belong to a county instead of a city.
The states that have cities with Halloween related names are listed in alphabetical order, as are the cities within each state. Whatever you want your story to focus on – murder, pumpkins, candy, monsters, Satan, spiders, bats, or cats – you should be able to find at least one appropriately named town in the list.
