Halloween celebrations have always been hilarious. Exploring the unknown and describing the inexplicable has been the agenda of all Halloween celebrations. We want to dive past the mysteries of a mortal life and delve deep into the paranormal phenomenon which is so exciting.
The festival of Halloween has always resonated glamour, glitz and excitement. A mystic world is created around you – with all the Halloween décor items and icons.
Have you ever heard Halloween stories to take an idea about how Halloween was celebrated? What did Halloween comprise of? How to throw a Halloween party? Take a plunge into all these small elements of Halloween by reading Halloween stories.
Stories on Halloween
If you have a penchant to read good classic books on Halloween, you can start off with ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hallow’ by Washington Irving
The Halloween story books are
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Raven, by Edgard Allen Poe
- Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
- Ulalume by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Child That Went With the Fairies, by Le Fanu
- Feathertop: A Moralized Legend, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
- Ken’s Myster by Julian Hawthorne
- Red Hanrahan by W.B. Yeats
The out-of copyright Halloween tales are
- Black Stairs on Fire, Patrick Kennedy 1866
- The Method of Making a Magic Staff, Albertus Parvus Lucius
- Cabbage Thumping, Hugh Miller
- The Witches’ Hallowmass Ride, J. Maxwell Wood
- A Ballad of Halloween, Theodosia Garrison
- Hallowe’en, Madison J. Cawein
- The Ghost, Vicomte de Parny
- All-Hallow-Eve, James Hogg
- The Immortal Hour, William Sharp
- The Feast of Samhain, James Stephen
- The Fiend’s Field, A Legend of the Wrekin
- A Hallowee’n Party, Carline Ticknor
- All Souls’ Night, Dora Sigerson Shorter