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

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Once they got down, the power came back on, and they all started to calm down. Then Marcia mopped up all the leftover water on the floor while Chef Scott cooked dinner. Emma also forbade anyone from leaving the mess hall and going outside because it's safer inside than outside. Sally sat down in a chair covered with a sheet, but then the sheet floated off the chair, and Sally turned around. Then the sheet grew a ghoulish face and showed Sally its arms. The ghost said, "Boo." Once Sally saw the ghost, she screamed in terror, ran for her life, and hid under one of the tables. Cody looked under the table and found Sally. Cody said, "Sally, what is it?" Sally pointed at the chair she sat on and said, "A ghost took over that sheet." Cody looked at the sheet Sally told Cody about and saw it was back on the chair. Cody said, "I don't see anything." Sally took another look at the chair and saw the ghost was gone. Sally said, "Thank god, he's gone." 


Fear Itself: Chapter 13