Editor's note: Lauren Soukkala, age 10, of Barnum submitted this frightening and fun tale of a Halloween gone weird to the Pine Knot News. We typed up the story mostly as submitted - adding a little punctuation here and there. Lauren, right, sent her work on a blood red piece of paper with a drawing to accompany the story. Creatively enough, the red paper made the art difficult to reproduce here.

Once upon a time it was one day before Halloween and everybody was carving pumpkins because they have a pumpkins carving contest. Everybody was finishing there costumes for Halloween. This year the co...