CONTEST WINNERS!!

Thank you to everyone who entered. We had a record number this year and we really enjoyed reading them all!!

Congratulations to our winners!!

For the adult category:  She awoke to the feel of cold metal beneath her, and the sterile scent of the room filling her lungs. As the scalpel hovered inches from her skin, she realized the coroner was still convinced she was dead.  By Laura D.

For the teen category:  Laughing, splashing, swimming, playing. Shouting, screaming, choking, drowning.  By Parker T.

And for the newly added juvenile category:  I asked the tooth fairy what she did with all the teeth. “I add them to the collection” she said, opening her mouth to reveal rows upon rows upon rows of teeth.  By Gregory V.

So spooky!!

 

 

Here are some honorable mentions that were really spooky too:

A damp night wind howled through the marsh grass as the creature – covered in slime and reeking of death and decay – slowly descended into the churning water. Fear and trembling left me unable to resist as it beckoned me to follow.  By Maxine S.

“I can see you,” the voice giggled, and the girl frantically felt along the dark, bare walls for the door. She found the door frame at last and reached for the handle-but there was already a hand there.  By Emma R.

“Bridget got up and walked to the bathroom as usual, but the lights weren’t working. She ran to her dad who looked to be asleep until he grabbed her and said “Nothing is real…You need to run.”  By Phoenix R.

I always had my parents check under my bed before bedtime. It was tonight when I realized they should’ve checked the closet.  By Emma R.

“I cried so much one day, my mom had to knock on my door and say “Don’t cry your eyes out about it.” Like the rebellious girl I was, I did the opposite of what she said not to do. By Caela W.

I was so excited about my new pet rabbit, right up to the moment I realized it wasn’t a rabbit. That was the moment it pounced.  By Ramona B.

My mom said that the sound under my bed was a heater. But she doesn’t know I have met him. By Riley G.

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door…  By Thomas P.

The Uber driver wasn’t very chatty so i checked my phone. “Hey it’s your Uber, driver I’m outside.”  By Faith C.

Whilst investigating the death of a local psychiatrist, a bold fishmonger called Mathias Jolie uncovers a legend about a supernaturally-cursed, cursed map circulating throughout Ireland. As soon as anyone uses the map, he or she has 24 hours to find the treasure or they will get dragged into the map’s forgotten mysteries forever. By Nicholas P.

I had the same tune stuck in my head all week but I couldn’t quite place it. One night, I woke up very late and saw the shadow-like, deformed figure standing by my bed singing the same song, note for note.  By Colin R.

As I tucked my daughter in for bed she says “mommy there’s someone under my bed” laughing I look under her bed. There’s nothing under your bed sweetie, then I turn around to leave the room and see my daughter shaking in the hallway saying” mommy there’s someone in my bed.” By Deborah Z.

I hopped into bed from a long day at work and smiled at my wife. It only took the singular maggot to crawl from her ear for me to realize that I buried her a week ago.  By Colin R.

 

And finally, some head scratchers that made us laugh… maybe we need a two sentence comedy contest!? Kudos for creativity!

I know where you live. It’s called your house and also I heard you have oil.

Trick-or-treat—Boo! A ghost wanted to eat my soul unless I got him 10,000 candy bars!

Ahhhhhhh–I lost my iPad and I have all my private stuff on it! Now someone is outside with my iPad and a nail gun!

You’re at Disney when a tiger gets out its cage, but it’s a Skinwalker and it quickly turns into a human. You’re so scared, but then Walt Disney’s soul calms you down and you faint, never to be seen again.

My grandma is a great dancer. But I still see her dancing in the basement even though she’s dead.

Once upon a time, there was a zombie named Zom. Zom was a kind Zombie but his family was not and wanted to eat peoples brains but Zom put a stop to the end.

The Stomping of the monster’s feet is running straight at me, it stops and looks straight at me, towering figures. It has the head of a deer, the body of a man that just says slowly “It’s a fine day to have some tea and biscuits.”

 

Thanks for all your amazing entries!!