WAR OF THE WORLDS: The Greatest Halloween Prank Ever

A nervous teenager at a Finley garage sale warns a new kid not to buy the five-dollar scarecrow sitting in a chair by the house, then tells the story of the Murphy family's Halloween yard display and the scarecrow Jack Murphy built with his father when he was eleven.

In the glass-roofed New York of 2432, a bestselling author of caveman and cowboy adventures and his bride, a poet of birdsong and sunsets, bribe the operator of the Cosmic Express with a flask of contraband liquor to beam them one-way to the untouched jungles of Venus.

Stranded on the Saskatchewan prairie with his world-famous wife, a five-time Nobel Prize winner refuses to fix their stalled car, certain that tonight he'll finally meet his equal, and a castle rises out of the mist with its drawbridge lowering over a moat full of piranhas.

A terrifying urban legend meant to scare children became all too real when a former janitor turned the shadows of Staten Island into his hunting ground.

In a California gold camp abandoned by everyone but the dead, a prospector follows an old letter from his late friend, the camp's grave digger, to a vein of gold hidden beneath a notorious woman called Scarry, and digs into her grave until the moon comes up.