Spooky Tale Starters

Choose a spooky tale starter, then plan your story before you
write it.
1. A full moon loomed over the leafless branches. Their spiny limbs
reached out as if to grab us. But we kept walking ...

2. I knocked on the big, ugly door. My legs shook and I had a lump in
my throat. I almost ran away, but then the door creaked opened.

3. One Halloween night, we heard strange clanking sounds from the

old house next door. Was someone playing a joke?

4. I always got the chills whenever I walked by the shabby house

with the crooked shutters. Nobody dared to go near...

5. SCR-EE-CH! There was that eerie noise again. I just had to see
what it was. I opened the door and gasped!

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