Horror stories written by Joseph Kohtz

The Ghoulish Haunted Mansion: On Halloween, a group of kids decides to go inside an old abandoned mansion to see if it's haunted and end up getting scared out of their minds by all sorts of monsters and ghosts. While inside, the kids meet up with a talking cat and jack-o-lantern who try to protect them from the spirits and try to convince one of them to read a spell from a book to get rid of the ghosts.

Return to The Ghoulish Haunted Mansion: On a field trip, Susan Piper takes her class to The Wellington Mansion and tells them how it was haunted before she got rid of the ghosts a decade ago on Halloween with her friends' help. She also told her class how to re-haunt the house and warned them not to do so. The next day, on Halloween, six of Susan's students enter the mansion, bring the ghosts and monsters back, and get scared out of their wits. Jack, the jack-o-lantern who knew their teacher, protects them with help from Alvin, the ghost puppy, and tries to convince Victoria to read the same spell Susan read when she was in the mansion to get rid of the ghosts.

The Spooky Halloween Sleepover in The Haunted Woods: After a few of their friends go missing, a group of kids investigates The Dead Woods to find them. While there, they run into monsters and ghosts that pick them off. Since their friends are disappearing, they decide to have a sleepover in the haunted woods until they find their friends, but they soon all go missing after the hauntings get worse.

Fear Itself: After being told a ghost story around the campfire, a group of kids who go to a camp gets scared to death while ghosts and monsters haunt the camp and forest. They get scared, but some think it's all a prank by one of the counselors at first, even when the campers and the counselors start to get picked off one by one. Even though things look bad, some campers still think it's a fraud, at least until things get worse. Because the longer they stay and ignore the

Horrifying Tales of Haunted Places

A group of kids were watching a scary movie together. The film had many ghosts and monsters, and all the kids were scared while watching it. When the movie ended, all the kids went to bed and were all excited about Halloween that was coming up. The next day, two children named Emma and Hannah walked to school together. Since it was too far to walk, they decided to cut through The Dead Woods. While walking, they heard animal sounds, including a bunch of howls. Then Hannah fell, and Emma helped her back up. While Emma was helping Hannah, a dark shadow walked up towards them. When they saw the dark shadow, they saw whose shadow it was. Emma and Hannah held each other scared, while the person approached them. Then he brought out a burlap sack, bagged Emma and Hannah, and they both screamed in terror simultaneously. 


The Spooky Halloween Sleepover in the Haunted Woods: Chapter 1