In a sleepy hamlet named Moonhive, nestled between rolling amber farms, there stood an abandoned manor known to all as the “Grinning Reaper.” Every Halloween, the village children dared each other to ring its rusty, cackling doorbell.
One Halloween, plucky little Tommy, armed with a candle-stub, ventured toward the manor. He gingerly pressed the doorbell, which bellowed out a wail, causing the bats to flutter and the owls to hoot.
The mansion’s door creaked open. Undeterred, Tommy stepped inside and met his eerie host—a talking Pumpkin King, sitting atop a pile of candy!
“For your courage, you may take all the candy you can carry…but only if you tell the funniest joke I’ve ever heard!” The Pumpkin King demanded.
Cracking a mischievous grin, Tommy served him a joke, “Why don’t skeletons fight each other? Because they don’t have the guts!”
The Pumpkin King chortled, shaking the mansion walls. “Deal’s a deal, you’ve earned your treat!” he boomed.
And so, Halloween in Moonhive turned from a night of horror to a festival of laughter. The “Grinning Reaper” wasn’t a haunted house, but a funhouse, waiting for a kid brave and funny enough to discover its secret!