Ghost Story Contest Submissions

A Halloween to Never Forget
Brad Olson *WINNER*

It was 4 p.m. on Friday the day before Halloween, and President William Bradshaw was leaving his office to go home and finish last minute preparations for trick-or-treating with his kids. The weather was unusually cool that day, and he thought to himself that there was an ominous feeling in the air...

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The Visitor
Harlan Blumenthal

While attending Metropolitan State University, my wife and I purchased our first home. Upon living there some three months, I had the strangest dream. Our bedroom wall had disappeared and there was a party going on right outside on the lawn. There was a celebration, and although I was not able to partake in it, clearly this dream was one of pleasantry. While still dreaming, a man from the party came into the bedroom and sat at the end of the bed. He looked long and hard at my wife and I for what seemed like several minutes...

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The 'Bloody Mary' Game
David Saevig

It was a full moon eve on October 8, 1995, and the night had fallen on the city of Bloomington, Minnesota. All Hallows Eve was just around the corner, and the heavy suppression of ghouls and goblins lurked in the misty foresight of the darkened night. My eldest brother Steve had invited his friend Rob over to the house in the silence of that evening, in the nine o’clock hour, to challenge the frights and fears of the younger children—little Mike, my twin brother and myself. In the misty fog of the night, Rob, along with my brother Steve, had the intention to frighten us little ones with some references to ghosts and creatures lurking about outside in the late of the night. These creatures would take their sharp long finger nails and screech them on the windows above the beds of little children and tap, tap, tap on the glass...

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