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october

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Haunted Hotel: What Crosses Over by Brian LeTendre

Welcome to day twenty-four of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from room #665!   October 31st—4pm "Yes Miss Thompson, I will put you down for a wakeup call,” Cindy assured the woman in room eighty-four as she scrawled a note in the column of the guest register.  "Yes, yes, I understand—they'll make sure you get up. Yes, I know it's a matter of life and—" A blast of October air caused Cindy to look up as two[...]

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Haunted Hotel: The Monsters Among Us by Rosa Taylor

Welcome to day FIVE of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from room #149.   Thump. Thump. Thump. The rhythmic sound infiltrates my dreams, blending with the hatchet chopping through the bathroom door, until I come to my senses enough to realize that the bloody tool I held in my dream isn't making that noise. With a sigh, I roll over and pull the covers over my head, trying to find my way back into my dream. The[...]

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Haunted Hotel: Hungry by Clarissa West

Welcome to day FOUR of the Haunted Hotel Writer and Illustrator showcase! You can find a list of all participants here. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Today's story comes from the deepest corners and shadows of the Thornewood...the basement!     It’s the smell that gets to you first. It burns the inside of the nostrils a bit going in, and settles its rancidness on the inside and you think it’ll get into your blood and you’ll never get it off again. Sweet like rotting meat, tinged with the dankness of the baseme[...]