Using a carved pumpkin for a head, old stuffed clothes for a body, and boots for feet, two small children delight in seeing their autumn creation come together and are proud of the end results. Original.

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The Pumpkin Family is a very happy family. Unfortunately, the Boogie Man is trying to change that! Pumpkin man uses his karate techniques to try and save the day!

The Pumpkin Family is a very happy family. Unfortunately, the Boogie Man is trying to change that! Pumpkin man uses his karate techniques to try and save the day! 1

The quiet town of Hallowseve has always been filled with the stories of the Pumpkin Man. It's a town rife with legend, known for its famous pumpkin patch and Halloween festival. To be a child in Hallowseve is to be brave, because, even in the heat of summer or beauty of spring, there's an undercurrent of October. Even in the sunlight, there is shadow, and the myth of the Pumpkin Man never seems to die. But is the Pumpkin Man just a myth? It would appear not when human skulls appear hanging from the pumpkin patch tree in the dead of Hallowseve night. Who would play a joke like that? And where did the jokester get all those skulls? Young Evelyn has lived in Hallowseve all her life, but when she begins having nightmares about the real Pumpkin Man, it's hard to doubt what she has suspected for years-that the Pumpkin Man is not a myth at all. She believes he has awakened to terrorize the peaceful community of Hallowseve and bathe it in blood. But how can you kill a ghost? Evelyn and her brother Julian will not be alone in battle. The entire town must stand up to this evil. Will they escape the clutches of one who means to kill, or will they become legends, too, lingering forever in the world of storybook nightmare?

The Alden children were searching for a home – and found a life of adventure! Beloved by generations of families, this illustrated chapter book series is full of wholesome excitement, danger, and mystery. This autumn adventure for the Boxcar Children takes the Aldens to a New England farm that has more than its share of strange occurrences. Every year at the Beckett farm, visitors come to buy pumpkins and go on hayrides, but this year something is haunting the farm―a mysterious specter with a glowing pumpkin head that warns guests to stay away! It's up to the Aldens to find out who―or what―is behind the scare.

A collection of writings by Swiss author Robert Walser, including journal entries, stories, notes on literature, biographical sketches, fables, and anecdotes.

Why do we carve pumpkins at Halloween? How did this tradition begin? Here is a story to answer these questions and more as children and parents of a small village put their trust in a stranger during a time of danger.

SETH—A Visitor's Pass is a spiritual story about a young man in who lives with his Mama and his brother in Clinton, MD. He works at a Nursing Home and writes whenever he gets the chance. Seth also takes a liking to acting. He meets Holly, who will change his life. They face hardships but neither of them loses faith in God. September 11th, 2001 transpires and it shows how he spiritually copes with a tragedy.

Courage, compassion, sacrifice, redemption and resurrection are recurring themes in the 24 short stories that make up Stories for the Seasons -- tales that take place at Christmastime, Easter, Valentine's Day, Halloween, and during the days of summer. Locales and time periods in these stories range from Southern California, the Middle East, ships at sea and Mexico to Biblical times, post-Civil War Missouri, medieval Europe and early 1900s small towns. Facing the challenges life thrusts upon them are assorted protagonists, including a Mexican boy and a donkey he rescues from the desert, a quiet cowboy who shows hidden strengths among a group of strangers, a sailor whose love of music reaches across the Pacific Ocean, a former Confederate cavalryman forced to face his tragic past, a simple-minded field worker whose life is enriched by a friendship that lasts two-thirds of a century, a lonely widow victimized by Halloween pranksters, a sidewalk Santa Claus for whom Christmas takes on a new meaning, a European immigrant confronted by town bullies, an over-the-road truck driver who unexpectedly finds love, the shadowy resident of a mysterious mansion, an elderly school cook who offers an unexpected gift at a graduation ceremony, and a pair of animal friends that befriend a miraculous stranger. The stories in which these characters and others appear were first published in a weekly newspaper column in Fayette County, Tenn. The column, Country Tales, focused on various aspects of rural life from the perspective of someone who had lived in an urban environment the first 40 years of his life. The parameters of that column allowed the author to include the 24 pieces of original short fiction printed here. Discover the characters in Stories for the Seasons and rediscover within yourself the strengths they display: courage, compassion, sacrifice, redemption and resurrection.