He was black too. And that is how the trouble began. Everything in Winnie's house is black - the carpet, the chairs, the bed and the sheets, the pictures on the walls, and even the bathtub! And of course her cat, Wilbur, is black too - all except for his bright-green eyes. Whenever poor Wilbur closes his eyes and tries to take a catnap, Winnie stumbles right over him. Or accidentally sits on top of him. Until one day, when Winnie gets a brilliant idea. What if Wilbur were a different color?

    It wasn't until later that he discovered the craft of photography and developed an enduring fascination with the magic of time and light, and the enigma of reality that these elements conjure up.

    A young man who loves to dance is captured by the goblins beneath the hill and must challenge them to a dance contest in order to escape.

    But the "untcigahunk" are no one's imagination. Hideous forest creatures who feed every five years on human flesh and now they are back. Only this time, there will be no escape for the young boy.This collections contains the novel Little Brothers with six short stories and three “myths".Dark Essentials Series: Volume 4, Book 2

    When a witch boards the bus at Paddington Station, wonderful, magical things happen to the tired and grumpy riders.

    A twist of fate. An error in judgment. Reality or just . . . imagination? Here are 18 stories designed to disturb, a collection of the best of the cult-classic television series by masters of this macabre art.

    Relates how the idea of jack-o-lanterns got started out in the prairies during a time when a mysterious stranger rewarded kind townsfolk and punished greedy politicians.

    Caliban, it is the chill voice of the narrator that quickens the pulse. In "Third Time Lucky," Lily, whose first two husbands were killed in Vietnam, listlessly rejects all suitors, lavishing her energy on her passion for ancient Egypt. When Don persists in courting her and promises a honeymoon there, she masters her distaste and marries him, presaging another tragedy. The logic of murder is relentlessly upheld in "People to People," as one man kills his four closest friends in order to escape detection for a murder the five had witlessly committed years before. Differing in mood yet maintaining the same distance, the title story deals in live ghosts, the aged, rich great-aunts of Carla, who listens helplessly to tales of their titled cousins, plunderers of the family treasure, and of "pearlkillers," people whose deadly skin causes pearls to shrivel and turn brown. Finally, "Captain Hendrik's Story" unites all the forces doomed journey, women-laced household, deception and murder in Anders Hendrik's recounting of what happened during a voyage to the New World and the record as corrected by a man who was part of the crew. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of these chilling tales is the doom that pervades them from the first sentence.

    While looking for employment, two scarecrows become separated from their cat child, finding each other again on Halloween.