OAHS Library: Hornet Hauntings

Write and record your own scary story or read one in the public domain.
Need something to read? Here are some ideas of scary short stories, poems, and urban legends you can read. 

Urban Legend - Scary Stories

Scary camfire stories

Poems

The Haunted Oak by Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Haunted by Seigfried Sassoon

Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

A Child's Nightmare by Robert Graves

The Vampire by Conrad Aiken

Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble” from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Spider and the Fly: A Fable by Mary Howitt

The Night Wind by Eugene Field

The Little Ghost by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Witch by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Ghost House by Robert Frost

The Only Ghost I Ever Saw by Emily Dickinson

The Shadow on the Stone by Thomas Hardy

Here's some examples from popular scary story podcasts. 

Full Body Chills (spooky stories)

• My Neighbor's Obituary
• Uncle Iggy
• Voicemail
• My Sister's Scarecrow
• Ghost Memory
• Why I Stopped Babysitting

Lore

• Clinton Road

The Creeping Hour

Criminal (true crime narrative nonfiction)

• How to Sell a Haunted House
• Bump in the Night

Supernatural (True Crime's most bizarre, unexplained occurences)

• Mystical: King Tut's Curse