Category: Spooky / Supernatural
Hellbent, Population – 98 (by Wrangler)
Summary: Ben and Joe have a layover in the town of Hellbent. That’s where the highly logical patriarch of the Ponderosa, and his highly illogical son, Joe, get a good dose of what a ghost town is all about.
Rated: K WC 14,000
Ghostly Miracle (by BettyHT)
Summary: It started as an October pinecone but I couldn’t stop. A little bit spooky but nothing to keep you up at night — probably.
Rating: PG Word count: 1430
Thirst (by bonanzagirl)
Summary: A Halloween story, told by Joe and Hoss. Joe gets into trouble while Hoss does everything to fix things again.
Rating: PG Word count: 9000
Dreams (by Pat D in PA)
Summary: Hoss has a VERY bad dream…
Rating: T for reference to character death. (1,298 words)
My Work is Not Yet Finished (by Pat D in PA)
Summary: Long after death, love maintains a bond between those who shared it and can help ease a troubled young man’s soul.
Rating: K/G 4,175 words
All Hallows’ Harvest (by Heather-Chrysalis)
Summary: Something evil lurks in a cornfield on the Ponderosa and unleashes terror on the Cartwright family. What is it?
Rated T Wordcount: 8, 070
The Curse (by bonanzagirl)
Summary: A Halloween story. It all starts with a harmless visit to the circus.
Rating: PG Word Count: 6000
Cold Vine (by BettyHT)
Summary: Follows Cold Fingers Around My Throat and answers some of the questions left unanswered at the end of that scary story and moves the story along a bit further as the family fights evil.
Rating: T Word count: 3,277
Cold Fingers Around My Throat (by BettyHT)
Summary: A story within a story with a prequel in the main story. Little Joe had a nasty prank played on him when he was ten, and fourteen years later, a similar situation is playing out again. He blamed Adam the first time, but he doesn’t know who to blame the second time.
Rating: T Word count: 3009
Black Cat (by BettyHT)
Summary: A strange, unusual, and perhaps a bit weird out-of-this-world tale featuring Adam and explaining some Bonanza events but doing so with a supernatural twist.
PG 18,319
Haunted (by BettyHT)
Summary: Hoss has an otherworldly experience after a dangerous man has an angry and violent outburst against his father putting other members of the family at risk too.
Rating: PG Word count: 1043
Three ‘O Stories for Halloween (by BettyHT)
Summary: Oration on My Life’s Work – one of the Cartwrights in the mode of a self-appointed avenging angel and working hard to make sure no one knows his choice of a second job.
Old Stage Station – otherworldly goings-on for Joe and Adam in an eerie and chilling mystery that almost sends one brother home without the other.
On Living the Nightmare – Ben has trouble accepting his sons’ choices for wives; numerous references to ladies featured in Bonanza episodes.
rating = T word count = 4,874
Can’t They See Me? (by BettyHT)
Summary: After a tragedy, who died, and who is still living? How did some survive? What makes a hero?
Rating: T Word count: 2,415
A Warrior’s Tears (mcfair_58)
Summary: A youthful dream becomes an adult nightmare for Hop Sing. Does he have what it takes to save his beloved Cartwrights?
Word Count: 7,348
Rated: PG
Midnight (McFair_58)
What happens between the eleventh and the twelfth stroke of the clock on All Hallows Eve? Beware! Twelve-year-old Little Joe and his big brother Adam are about to find out. Written for the 2021 Bonanza Brand Boo-nanza challenge.
Rated: PG for spookiness
Word count: 6,574
