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Descriptive Essay: A Haunted Halloween

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A Haunted Halloween In the town of Hull stone, on a Halloween night, four kids met up at Joe’s house to have a sleepover. Bob, Claire and Emily showed up at his house with their candy baskets. They left the house to go trick or treating in Joe’s neighborhood. The evening passed quickly as they had collected a lot of candy and they were returning to Joe’s house to begin their sleepover. On the ride back home, all was well until Bob suddenly stumbled upon a rock while riding his bike. Claire got off her bike to help Bob get up. It was a really quiet evening until they heard a crying baby from the mansion in front of them. The mansion had cobwebs all around the trees in the front yard, the glass windows were cracked and stained and left a trail of shattered glass on the brown grass. The house was distressed and it looked like it was made of black glass. An eerie mist was all around the place even though there wasn’t any fog that night but a full moon. Being the curious teenagers they were, they walked closer to the house stepping on broken twigs and dried leaves. They saw the front door open but as they approached the door it suddenly shut. They found a way to the back door and shuddered as they walked by a tombstone. ‘I don’t like this place’ said Emily while she pointed to an …show more content…

It was dark and the stairs seemed endless. ‘How much farther’ wailed Claire, and at that moment they reached a basement with dusty picture frames, large photo albums and a strange collection of china dolls. It was very silent and cobwebs surrounded the place. The children proceeded cautiously towards something dark at the end of the room. To their surprise, it was a dark tomb with something engraved on it. The children tried to make out the wordings on the tomb and figured out what it said. On it, was a list of the kids’ names, alongside their family members, and the different way each of them would

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