# Getting Near Hallowe'en: Scary short fiction/ghost stories?

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**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-near-halloween-scary-short-fiction-ghost-stories/467937 "2008-10-14T19:50:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-near-halloween-scary-short-fiction-ghost-stories/467937/21 "2008-10-16T09:48:13Z")

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> [@BrotherCadfael](#):
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> Max are there only 10 pages to that story?
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> The story just kinda chops off when they head off back to the cave, but I don’t know if there are more pages that aren’t accessible, or if they chop it off at that point to be creeepy.

it’s been awhile since I read that story. But it does end abruptly. As I recall he has his scary experience once he gets through the cave the first time.. then convinces himself he needs to go back one more time. This is where the story should end, presumably having met his doom on his last return trip. It is possible I also missed something, but this was how I took it.

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**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-near-halloween-scary-short-fiction-ghost-stories/467937/22 "2008-10-27T10:55:27Z")

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> [@Max\_Torque](#):
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> [Ted’s cave story](http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/).

I did a bit of, um, digging online and found that Ted’s Story is essentially a shortened, ‘Blair Witchified’ version of _The Fear of Darkness_, by Thomas Lera.

Lera’s story ends differently. You can read it [here](http://web.archive.org/web/20050117173007/www.dougaustin.com/tlcaves/pdf/Thefearofdarkness.pdf) (warning: link points to a PDF).

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