Once upon a midnight dreary in Martha’s Mill-town, a whimsical creature named Herbie Haunt roamed. Labeled a Halloween hooligan, he rattled chains in the attic, creaked doors at night, and sent whispers through the wind. But eyes never met Herbie: a being of mischief, but an enigma, nonetheless.
One Halloween night, wee Bobby ventured out. New in town, he yearned to discover the source of the mysterious happenings. Equipped with a torchlight and chewing on candy corns for bravery, he approached the rustling attic.
The door creaked open to reveal Herbie, or so Bobby thought. A ghoulish figure, with translucent skin and eyes twinkling like a far-off galaxy. Startled, yet strangely charmed, Bobby offered him a candy corn.
“Not a ghoul, but a Halloween elf, am I!” Herbie confessed, gleefully relishing the candy corn. He then proposed an eccentric offer, “Scare no more, and in return, a bag of candy corns every Halloween?”
To the town’s surprise, the Halloween shenanigans ceased. But every following Halloween, a bag of candy corns mysteriously vanished. It was Bobby’s secret pact with Herbie, the Halloween Elf, which he kept…until the candy corns ran out.
Now, did Herbie truly leave, or is he just waiting for another brave candy corn offering? Only the winds of the next Halloween night will tell…