• Here’s a fun M. R. James story for your Halloween evening… after the little ghouls and goblins have left you alone with the leftover [...]

  Some Halloween Evening Reading…

  31 October 2013
• I know. It’s a bit early, but I’ve been reading creepy stuff since 1 October. In keeping with my Halloween blog tradition, [...]

  A Little Halloween Treat for You

  15 October 2012
• The Doll My mother is impossible to shop for. She always buys for herself whatever she needs; Christmas, birthdays, or Mother’s Day be [...]

  The Doll – a Little Christmas Story by Donna Hrkman

  14 December 2011
• Hello ghouls and goblins! Happy Halloween! How ’bout a scary story? I’m too lazy to republish this entire story here at Nocturnal [...]

  Pieces of Nine – A Story for Halloween

  19 October 2011

• The old man walks down halls cold as ice In a castle beyond Time’s roll of the dice Through corridors of dark and shadowed mist To at time [...]

  The Search

  28 September 2011
• Now for something a little lighter… This is a story that I wrote a few years ago. It’s about an Easter egg hunt that my mom arranged [...]

  The Easter Egg Hunt

  12 April 2011
• There’s a big old oak tree out in my front yard that’s probably almost 100 years old. It was there when my father bought this property and [...]

  The Oak Tree

  17 January 2011
• There hadn’t been a Christmas tree set up in my house in years, not since about ’91, when a then girlfriend talked me into it. About [...]

  The Little Christmas Tree

  26 November 2010