Scary Short Stories, Putrid Poems, and Horrifying Pop Culture for the 13 Days of Halloween

Or any time of year you feel like getting spooky

Aimée Brown Gramblin
5 min readOct 3, 2022
Man in creepy clown costume holding red balloons
Photo by Wilson Vitorino from Pexels

Sometime over the summer, I started hankering for cooler weather and spooky stories. It’s finally October. And it was under 60 degrees when I woke up. Finally.

What’s the deal with The 13 Days of Halloween anyway, Aimée?

It’s a riff on The 12 Days of Christmas. I’m warped like that.

And now you can get a macabre head start with me. 👻 🧙‍♀️ 💀 🦇

Why Jane Will Never Housesit Again

This 4-minute short horror story is inspired in part by a home I once housesat. The lights did seem possessed, and there were dolls on the stairwell. I’ll let you guess the other parts. Were they real…or not?

Angelica’s Visit to the Graveyard on a Blustery Winter’s Day

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Aimée Brown Gramblin

Age of Empathy founder. Creativity Fiend. Writer, Editor, Poet: life is art. Nature, Mental Health, Psychology, Art. Audio: aimeebrowngramblin.substack.com