The October, 2009 One Week Challenge. The participants had one week to write a 12 page, properly formatted
family horror script on the theme
At this year's Halloween Festival, strange things are happening.
Click on the title of the script to open the thread devoted to the particular script. Once there, click the title to open the script.
A Tale of Two Nuggets (Great Grandfather Wasn't Crazy) by Daniel Meade (ElectricSatori) - Short, Family Horror - Jeremy has lived his entire life with the legend of his Great Grandfather finding a gold nugget which fell from space. He never really believed it until one night a gold streak fills the sky. Will he find another gold nugget, or something else entirely? 12 pages - pdf, format
Untitled by Michael Cornetto - Short, Family Horror - Two people are drawn to attend their town's Halloween festival because a mysterious voice foretells that something will happen there. What the voice has failed to tell them is whether that something will be good, or bad. 12 pages - pdf, format
Mayor Vamp by Steven Fletcherson (GoreGore84) - Short, Family Horror - A boy who's know to tell a lie or two tries to convince his two friends that their mayor is really a vampire. Is he telling the truth or is a simple case of boy cries wolf? 7 pages - pdf, format
Bloomb Thicket's Opera - The Xilon of Witch Racket by Sandra E. Watson - Short, Family Horror - In 1977 on Halloween night, SimplyEarth launched The Voyager Spacecraft with its Golden Record into space. What happened to it results in the birth of Xilon's new Messiah King. - pdf, format
A Measure of Silence by Simon Lewis (niles crane) - Short, Family Horror - A couple discover that even an empty room can be deadly at Halloween. - pdf, format
Pumpkin Pie by Sean Elwood (thedeadwalk2nite) - Short, Family Horror - Try some pie? You can't say "No" to these... - pdf, format
The Fixer by Jimmy Dean - Short, Family Horror - How far will one boy go to gain some friends? - pdf, format
Close Encounters of the Furred Kind by Matthew Chisholm - Short, Family Horror - The small outback town of Shiloh's Bend is celebrating Halloween with their annual festival, when something unimaginable happens. For a small family, a night of fun has just become a battle for survival. - pdf, format
Halo Wins by Khamanna Iskandarova - Short, Family Horror - A "scary" little girl helps a brainy little worm who has name and gender issues define himself. - pdf, format
The Boy Who Cried by Anthony Hudson (alffy) - Short, Family Horror - Kevin just wants to go trick or treating, but his brother first lays down the rules. Will he listen? - pdf, format
Monster's Night Out by James McClung - Short, Family Horror - He doesn't need a costume and he's out for a treat... a treat named Chase. - pdf, format
The Mystery of the Haunted Hay Wagon by T. Joseph Fraser (blakkwolfe) - Short, Family Horror - A teenage girl and a security guard unravel a mystery that even the guys at the post office would not believe. - pdf, format
Creepville - A Halloween Tale by Steve McDonell - Short, Family Horror - The residents of Creepville, U.S.A. look forward to the Halloween festival. Will the new arrivals in town embrace the celebrations? - pdf, format
Spook Night by John Brooke (creativeamigo) - Short, Family Horror - A couple of school kids, Jack and his young sister Gillian are being coerced by their parents to get psyched up with fear of mythical demons, monsters, and evil spirits on Halloween. Much to their parents dismay their kids don’t buy into the fright thing. The children perceive all that stuff about zombies, vampires, monsters and demons is in the same category of phony Santa Clause and Easter Bunny stuff. At their Grammar School’s All Hallows Eve Festival something happens that turns the family’s beliefs inside out and upside down. - pdf, format
Cumbara by Gary Rademan - Short, Family Horror - A little girl strives to save the only talking pumpkin from a nasty scarecrow and his rat minions at the annual harvest festival. (Family agricultural horror) - pdf, format
Swine Lou by Phil Clarke Jr. - Short, Family Horror - A young boy suffers horrific side effects after receive a swine flu shot. Based on a true story. - pdf, format
Wesley by Kim Britt (screen dreamer) - Short, Family Horror - An autistic boy breaks his life-long silence with a warning -- something bad is going to happen at the Halloween Festival. - pdf, format
Old Ninety-nine Face by Cameron Mitchell (cam17) - Short, Family Horror - Evan, new to the neighborhood, hears the legend of Old Ninety-nine Face, a hermit whose ghost supposedly haunts a nearby house. As the story goes, steal something from the house on Halloween night, and the ghost of Old Ninety-nine Face will come for you. Evan doesn't believe it, but he soon will. - pdf, format
Demons by Jordan Weibe (theboywhocouldfly) - Short, Family Horror - A young teen believes he is being followed by a dark force. - pdf, format
Ghost in the Graveyard by Jeff Bush (dreamscale) - Short, Family Horror - Franklin, Tennessee’s annual Halloween Festival ain’t all fun and games, as old Jeb’s bones comes a callin’. Family Horror – 12 pages - pdf, format
Bleeglebork by Marnie Mitchell-Lister - Short, Family Horror - At the Monteville Fright Fest, strange things happened. . . - pdf, format
A Goode Fall by Russell Davis - Short, Family Horror - A banker struggles to win a vacation for his family and has to foreclose on the haunted farm where they are camping. - pdf, format
Dear Boy by Bryan Mora - Short, Family Horror - Bobby, a rambunctious and sensitive boy feels misunderstood at home and escapes on Halloween. He soon finds that the world outside can be just as complicated. - pdf, format
Welcome to Hale by Mike Harrop - Short, Family Horror - Halloween through the eyes of a six year old boy who is not allowed to trick-or-treat because of his religious mother. - pdf, format
Halloween Heros by Lew Sherwood (big lew) - Short, Family Horror - Seven kids are imbued with the powers of their Halloween costumes to battle the man who wants to use the Halloween festival to kill people or drive them out of time. - pdf, format
The Ghostly Cut by Herman Chow (coding) - Short, Family Horror - On Halloween, three friends explore a house that is once owned by a kidnapper. - pdf, format
Who's Afraid of A Big Bad Bug by Kevin Carty - Short, Family Horror - A carefully cautious young girl must conquer her fears if she is to save her friend's soul. - pdf, format
Scaregrounds by Morgan Cooper (MBCgirl) - Short, Family Horror - A young girl and her friends learn just how scary a haunted house can be, while outside, masked bandits take the loot and run. - pdf, format