Category: Fright / Supernatural / Spooky / Horror / Scary
The Ballad of Tahoe Tessie (by sandspur)
Summary: Cattle are being eaten, and their picked-clean skeletons are being deposited near the lake, but when the Cartwrights investigate, they find a lot more than they ever bargained for … and the effects will last forever.
Rating: T (20,000 words)
Dead Ringer (by Inca ‘aka Tye’)
Summary: What is the sinister secret of the mysterious house on the cliff? Adam and Joe are about to find out – the hard way.
WC: 16,570 Rating: T
Ole Daniel (by DJK)
Summary: Each of Ben Cartwright’s sons had a meeting with Old Daniel. Only Hoss realized the danger they faced when they did. This is my submission for the October Halloween Challenge.
rating T word count 3126
Adam’s Last Days (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: for the October challenge to write an out of this world story. Adam is suffering from a mysterious malady, and his days are growing short. Hoss gives Joe a clue to solve the mystery, but what Joe discovers is a horror. Most appropriate for the Halloween season.
rating = T word count = 1438
Premonition (by Inca)
Summary: After sixteen-year-old Adam discovers a mysterious cave, disturbing events follow.
5940 words Rating K
A Howl in the Night (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: A WHN/WHIB for the episode My Brother’s Keeper. Joe finds himself lost and alone in a forest, but is he really as alone as he thinks he is?
Rating: T – (1,300 words)
The Great Baby Switch (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: Bored boys, left to their own devices, can come up with wild ways of passing the time, and when the bored boys are Little Joe Cartwright and his friends, Virginia City is in for quite a fright.
Rating: K Words: 5,068
The Lantern Man (by mcfair_58)
Summary: That baby brother of his, he could talk him into anythin’. They shoulda been home, but instead they ended up campin’ out near 13 year old Little Joe’s little gal’s house. All would have been well and good if’n only Joe’d have stayed put. But this was Joe and he didn’t. When he asked him how come, his baby brother said he didn’t know.
Was it a nightmare, Hoss wondered, that called Little Joe out into the mist and got him nearly drowned?
Or was it somethin’ else?
Rated PG
7, 666 words
Bloodlines (by AC1830)
Summary: This is a what-if story for Halloween. Adam’s son loves to read. After reading a forbidden book, he discovers a dark family secret.
Rating – T, Word count – 1949
Snake in the Grass (by Patina)
Summary: Paradise is almost gained for one Cartwright.
Rating: T. Word count 761
