Halloween – Slanted Spines

N.T. Ed and the Farm of Horrors

October 30, 2020April 16, 2021Posted in Tales of N.T. EdTagged creative writing, fiction, Halloween, haunted house, short story, skeleton, spooky storyLeave a comment

So you want to hear a scary story, do you? One that thrills your anxious nerves and excites the depths of your imagination? A mysterious tale set in the ambiguous climate of autumn? Coincidentally, this fine rainy evening has put me much in the mood for telling such a story, and I happen to know a very haunting tale of a skeleton named Ned Theodore Ed and the time whence he visited the Seven Levels of Hell, one unsettling October eve.

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N.T. Ed and the Apple Cider Whodunnit?

October 4, 2019April 16, 2021Posted in Tales of N.T. EdTagged autumn, Blog, creative writing, Halloween, party, short story, skeleton, Story, writing1 Comment

It was an Autumnal Affair, that autumn night.

It was a night that existed after a week’s preparation, a night that was the result of several shopping excursions, hours of crafting and decorating, and outstanding social suavity, a night that culminated from a desire to give the seasonally affected a reason to celebrate this otherwise possibly depressing impending winter. Ned Theodore Ed and Margaret Hadfield worked diligently on this party, fashioning every detail with eager attentiveness. Continue reading “N.T. Ed and the Apple Cider Whodunnit?” →

N.T. Ed and Margaret Decide to Have an Autumn Party

September 27, 2019September 26, 2019Posted in Comics, Tales of N.T. EdTagged autumn, black and white, comic, creative writing, fall, fiction, Halloween, season, short story, skeleton, Story, winter, winter blues2 Comments

N.T. Ed and Margaret Decide to Have an Autumn Party

Ned Theodore Ed, skull in the palm of his bony hand, looked out the window at the darkening early evening, and sighed.

Margaret noticed N.T. Ed’s shoulders silently heave and slump (for this was the way N.T. “sighed”) and paused her knitting. “What was that for?” Margaret asked, tilting her head and looking at N.T. over the top of her wire-rim reading glasses. They were sitting in Margaret’s living room, N.T. on the couch, and Margaret in her recliner; the lamps on her end tables produced an orangey, cozy hue as the light flickered off her hardwood interior.

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N.T. Ed and the Jack of Tricks

October 26, 2018January 22, 2019Posted in Tales of N.T. EdTagged childrens story, Halloween, short story, skeleton, Story, writing11 Comments

There’s nothing quite like a Halloween tale about a scary skeleton, but would you believe me if I told you I knew a skeleton who wasn’t scary and who didn’t like Halloween? It’s not that he disliked Halloween, but he didn’t really like it, either. But regardless of whether someone likes something or not, it still sometimes happens, and so it turns out I do have a Halloween tale about a skeleton, after all, just a not-so-scary skeleton. Is that okay with you?

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