On a blustery Halloween eve, in the tiny town of Hullabaloo, there lived a peculiar witch named Estelle. With a crackling laugh and a penchant for theatrics, she revelled in her role as the neighborhood spook.
Set amidst contorted ashen trees, her rickety mansion shimmered under the light of the pale waxing moon. Year after year, children would dare each other to knock on her imposing door. Each year, the bravest would be met with a cackling “Enter, if you dare!”
One Halloween, after the last crispy autumn leaf had fallen in anticipation, a fearless little girl, no older than six, named Alice stepped up to the challenge. Unlike the others, Alice didn’t turn and flee. Instead, she pushed the massive door open and entered Estelle’s world.
The hallway creaked in surprise! Alas, in the living room, instead of the menacing dark, dust-filled catacomb they had imagined, was an expanse of candy corn fields, marshmallow clouds, and chocolate paths.
Surrounded by bewitched confections, Alice turned her gaze towards Estelle. The once fierce witch now broke into a toothless grin. “Finally, someone brave enough to taste my Halloween Wonderland!”
A magnificent twist! The witch of Hullabaloo was simply an eccentric chocolatier, misunderstood as a result of her great passion. From then on, Halloween was not just a night of fear but one of gastronomical delight too!