When four daring friends defy neighborhood legend by trick-or-treating at mysterious Mrs. Crabapple’s house, they must confront a spooky curse and discover a Halloween night full of eerie surprises, hilarious escapades, and one unforgettable flying candy.
Please enjoy this horror short, part of a series experimenting with artificial intelligence. I fed the location, characters, scenario, and mood into ChatGPT and asked it to craft a story, then used Stable Diffusion XL to create illustrations. How did it turn out? Well, you be the judge.
In the sleepy little town of Willowbrook, trick-or-treating was the most awaited event of the year, especially for the tweens. This Halloween, Charlie, Sophie, Lucas, and Mia, all 12, had been given the most precious gift they could imagine: the permission to go trick-or-treating unsupervised for the first time. It was a sign, a rite of passage, that they were becoming gasp teenagers.
Charlie was dressed as a wobbly jelly, his wiggly arms often knocking things over, causing the gang to chuckle. Sophie wore a flowing witch robe with a hat so pointy it could have poked a hole in the sky. Lucas, obsessed with robots, had cobbled together an outfit from aluminum foils and blinking Christmas lights. Mia, always the dramatic one, went as a ghost with flowing white drapes and dark, exaggerated eye makeup.
Willowbrook was a peaceful neighborhood, the kind where all houses had white picket fences, manicured lawns, and neighbors knew more about each other than they’d like to admit. There was only one house that all children whispered about and dared each other to approach: the abode of old Mrs. Crabapple.
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Is Halloween an evil holiday? Is it secretly pagan? Is Halloween too dangerous for children to celebrate? These are all questions that, sadly enough, many parents ask themselves every year. When I was a kid (way, way back in the 1980s), I can remember trick or treating with my older sister (when I was very young) and then when I was older, with a group of friends. We trick or treated at dusk, or when it was dark, and then afterwards we joined our parents for a Halloween party at a neighbor’s house. Nearly every home was decorated in some way for the holiday.
M.A. Kleen 
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