title: Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts
author: Richard Chizmar
description: Mark Parker is founder, publisher, and managing editor of Scarlet Galleon Publications, whose inaugural work, Dead Harvest: A Collection of Dark Tales, debuted at #1 on Amazon's Top 100 Hot New Releases in Horror Anthologies in 2014, which will be followed up by this year's Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts, and Summer 2016's Fearful Fathoms: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror. Parker is also the author of, Biology of Blood, Way of the Witch, Lucky You, Banshee's Cry, and The Troll Diner. His works have also appeared in a number of anthologies, with more to come. He resides in New England where he is currently at work on his first novel and collection of short fiction.
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  For Kate; for the other three-fifths. With love.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house;
  
  
  And in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room;
  
  
  And in the dark, dark room there was a dark, dark cupboard;
  
  
  And in the dark, dark cupboard there was . . . a skeleton!
  
  
  —traditional Halloween tale
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I am running.
  
  
  I am running through moonlit woods,