Children love a good ghost story - one that is scary,
but not too scary. Half the fun and fright in a good ghost story is setting a
scary scene and establishing a spooky tone or mood.
The following is a brief excerpt from the very first
story in my book, Scary Ghosts and
Playful Ghosts: Children’s Tales of Fright and Delight.
“Their house had many gables and a castle-like attic
tower that traced an eerie outline in the black night against the
orange-n-golden glow of the moon. The house almost seemed to have a life of its
own – its tell-tale heart strangely seeming to beat rhythmically – “thump,
thump, thump”- from high atop the hill where it sat, sad and sullen. Its many
stained glass windows were like
piercing, glistening, multi-colored eyes that kept wary watch over the valley
below.”
Who do you suppose lived in this spooky looking house?
What kinds of scary things do you think could have happened in the house? Were
there monsters? Were there ghosts? I hope that you are intrigued and want to
find out the answers to these questions.
The story that takes place in the house described in the excerpt is called “The
Haunted Toy Chest” and you can read it and many other stories about scary and
playful ghosts in my book, Scary Ghosts
and Playful Ghosts: Children’s Tales of Fright and Delight, published by
Crimson Cloak Publishing.
It is available through thousands of retailers,
libraries, and Internet commerce companies in North America, Europe, the U.K.
and Australia, including, but not limited to, Amazon, Barnes
and Noble, Books-a-Million, and Apple.
