My blogger-friend Loren Eaton of the review/writing/musings blog "I Saw Lightning Fall" does an annual microfiction event that he calls Advent Ghosts, celebrating the lost tradition of scary or ghostly stories around the fire during Christmas time. This year he's posting them on December 20 to make it a little easier on everyone, so you can have a full week to enjoy the spooky tales.
Here's the
link to the stories, which will be updated as participants send him their links. These are not professionals and no one's getting paid off this; pure participatory enthusiasm is all.
Maybe some of you might want to join in next year. (Or heck, e-mail him this year if you have a blog and want to sketch one up really quickly. It's not like there's some hard cutoff.)
I'm not very good at scary, but my offering is
here, and should be added to the list later today.