Evil ST plotting

[alpharaposa]

For a Changeling plot:

I need a bunch of traditional children's stories associated with Halloween, preferably ones with interesting or memorable characters. These need to be stories you'd find in a large collection of short stories and/or fairy tales.

Brian and I will be doing some of our own research, of course, but I thought I'd see what my friends list can come up with. I'd love to find out a bunch of unusual stories that I can use to flummox players.

Comments

Any of these jiggle your ectoplasm?

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Stories:
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," by Washington Irving;
"The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe;
The Tragicall Historie of Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe (oh, you said children's stories -- oops);
"The Moddey Dhoo," by Richard Adams;
The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet (a play, actually);
The Princess and the Goblin, by George MacDonald;
On Stranger Tides, by Tim Powers;
Dracula, by Bram Stoker;
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.

Poems:
"Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley (the gobelins'll git ya if ya don't watch out);
"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes (The moon was a ghostly galleon, riding on cloudy seas).

Campfire Tales and Urban Legends:
"The Hook";
"The Disappearing Hitchhiker."