Once upon a time, in a pumpkin patch named Pastorelli, lived a small pumpkin who wore a crooked grin, and answered to Phil. Now, unlike his fellow pumpkins, Phil wasn’t satisfied just lazing in the sun, turning orange, and waiting for Halloween. No, Phil had ambition!
He wanted to scare! Like the old ghost stories of the Pastorelli mansion, stories of eerie whispers, creaking stairs, and shadows that defied the laws of light. Well, Phil decided that this Halloween, he’d join those old tales – as a haunted pumpkin!
With courage as bright as his orange glow, Phil rolled his spherical body straight into the hallowed mansion. They laughed, those dusty old spirits, at the idea of a pumpkin trying to frighten. But Phil didn’t back down; he wore his crooked grin and waited for Halloween night.
When the fright night arrived, Phil’s glow brightened and his grin widened. The trick-or-treaters ran from the house in terror, leaving a trail of dropped candies behind. Success! The house was the scariest in town, and Phil the central fright of them all!
“Well I’ll be,” chuckled the proud ghoul of the mansion, “Who’d have thought the scariest spook in the Pastorelli mansion would turn out to be a little pumpkin named Phil!”