Jeff DeGordick

A town torn apart by fear...There's an old house up on a hill in the woods that the kids call "Halloween House". They accused the mysterious old woman who lived there of being a witch until the rumors got out of hand and the panicked townspeople burned her house down with her in it one Halloween. She only said one thing before she died: "A curse on all of you!"Now, three years later, the spooky holiday approaches again, and Carmen is left in charge of taking her little brother trick-or-treating.But strange things begin happening around the small town.Children are going missing one by one, and the only clue to their disappearance is a gingerbread man left on their windowsill. Now Carmen has to protect her brother so that he doesn't become the next victim as the townspeople descend into insanity all around them. Riddled with fear, they have no one to pin the kidnappings and strange occurrences on.Because the witch is already dead......isn't she?

The Witch of Halloween House

They won't let you leave...A year after a terrible car crash leaves his mother dead, six-year-old Noel is brought to an old cottage next to a picturesque lake for the winter. His father Walter has fallen on hard times and says they have to live at Winterlake until the money comes in from his contract work.It was downright suspicious how cheap the asking price was, and sure, there are bullet holes in the walls and bed sheets stained red. But that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the place, does it?Except Noel can see and hear things his father can't. The rattling attic door. The piano that seems to play itself. The butcher in the kitchen who's all too familiar with a knife. Soon, the old inhabitants of the house don't seem so dead and gone.But as Noel tries to convince his father they have to leave, Walter spirals into drinking and depression over his financial situation. The ghosts are delighted at their new guests and their plans for them, and they don't want them to leave. Which is lucky, because a huge snow storm approaches, threatening to bury Noel and Walter with them...

The Winterlake Haunting

When the blood moon rises, death follows...Twelve years ago, a blood moon swept over the old Dover Estate, an abandoned mansion with a grisly history. Jess's uncle brings her there to witness the celestial event, but things go wrong when he wanders inside the abode and returns bleeding and panicked. Fleeing into the woods, he's later found killed under mysterious circumstances, leaving young Jess traumatized.Now she's all grown up, celebrating her eighteenth birthday and the start of a new life at college. The nightmares she suffered at the infamous "Bloodmoon House" are behind her, and she's tried her best to forget them.But some nightmares don't stay dead.When they see a report on the news about a new blood moon passing over the Dover Estate, her friends suggest they spend the night there so she can face her fears and get over her trauma. They insist that the house is empty, and all the rumors about ghosts lurking in its halls are mere fantasy. But when they arrive, their plans quickly unravel, and Jess discovers that the same evil that claimed her uncle may have been waiting for her all along...

The Haunting of Bloodmoon House

A house-sitting job turns into a nightmare...Katie Travers is down on her luck. Her relationship with her boyfriend is on the rocks. She's behind on her rent, and the only job she can find is offered by an eccentric man who lives in a house in the woods.Ironwood, he calls it. It's not too creepy once you get past all the pictures of the mysterious woman lining the halls, the iron bars covering all the windows, or the fact that it's outside of screaming distance from the nearest soul. But constructed entirely out of the hardest wood on the planet, it's a veritable fortress. And when Katie finds the front door bolted shut with her inside, it becomes her prison.There's a secret in old Ironwood that's begging to get out. And so is Katie. But her captor has a demented game in store for her.Fighting against time, Katie has to find a way out of her jail before the bars close for good. Because a ghost that's dead but not forgotten lingers in the halls, and soon it will consume Katie's mind and soul...

Jeff DeGordick

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