Winds blew heavy and storm clouds raged through the night above the cemetery. In a far end of the graveyard, the bully trio: Jimbo, Kearney and Dolph, were busy digging up one of the graves.
"Man, don't you just love to desecrate deceased bodies?" Jimbo chortled as they dug.
"Eh, it beats going to school" Kearney replied with a shrug.
"So, what should we do with the old stiff once we pull him out?" Dolph inquired.
"What else?" Jimbo answered obviously "We swap him out with the fake skeleton in science class".
The trio laughed in sick delight as lightning flashed around them. A few feet from them, a cracked and knocked over tombstone was on its side. Barely legible were two words:
Frank Grimes
Eventually, the bullies struck something hard.
"Paydirt!" Jimbo cried as he and the others got on their knees to uncover the coffin. Opening it, they saw their objective.
"Oh man" Dolph said "That is the ugliest corpse I've ever seen, and I've watched my mother's mortician boyfriend embalm a body".
"This guy looks like he's been here for about 18 years, five months and twenty-seven days" Kearney observed "Who do you think this guy is?"
"Who cares?" Jimbo said dismissively "Let's just get it out of here before the cops show up".
"Uh, don't mind us" Chief Wiggum said as he walked by with Lou and Eddie "We're just investigating a report of an attempted befoulment of a grave. Carry on with your conspicuous digging".
Smirking, the trio were about to grab the body when suddenly, a bolt of lightning came down and struck the body dead on, electrifying every inch of it. After it was over, the body looked charred.
"Ah, it's ruined" Kearney said in a disgusted tone.
"Let's dump it and find a fresh one" Jimbo said with indifference.
With that, the trio heaved the body upward and chucked it into a nearby ditch before walking off.
A moment later, the corpse's eye opened and a shadow began to rise up as an unearthly moan filled the air.
A figure began walking down the streets of Springfield in a limping manner, its skin pale blue, its eyes blood red and glaring, and its lips in an angry sneer.
"Hey, nice Frank Grimes costume, pal" Lenny, dressed like C-3PO, said to the figure with a wave.
"I don't know" Carl, in an R2-D2 costume said, "The face could look a little paler".
The figure eventually arrived at a certain house on Evergreen Terrace. Immediately, he rang the doorbell.
"Coming!" Came a voice from inside that made the figure's blood boil.
In a moment, Homer Simpson appeared at the door with a bowl full of (half-eaten) candy. Taking one look at the person, he called back into the house.
"Marge, my arch-enemy has come back from the dead" he said nonchalantly.
"Well don't deal with it in here!" Marge called back "I just mopped the floors!"
"Fine" Homer said with a sigh before walking outside and greeting the corpse with a friendly wave "Hey, Grimey! How's the afterlife been treating you?"
In response, the deceased Frank grabbed Homer by the shirt and pulled him forward.
An hour later, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie came into the living room.
"I gotta say, Homer" Marge said proudly "I've never seen you more well behaved".
"Yeah, you even managed to successfully help me with my homework for once" Lisa nodded.
"And you haven't strangled my neck even after I replaced all the jack-o-lantern candles in town with fireworks.
As Bart said that, the sounds of screams and exploding fireworks were heard in the background.
"I don't know what brought about this change, but I hope it remains" Marge said happily as she snuggled up to the man on the couch.
"Hmm" the deceased Frank Grimes, poorly dressed in Homer's clothes, said happily as he stroked Marge's back.
Back at the cemetery, in Frank's grave was the mangled and scrunched up form of Homer.
"Oh man" Homer moaned "My nose itches!"
Trying to flex a hand, Homer saw that it was at the other end of the grave from his face.
"NOOOOOOO!" he screamed in agony.
As Homer's cries filled the night, Frank Grimes' headstone now read:
Simpsons' (Unofficial) Treehouse of Horror Mark 1
A/N: Greetings, Simpson writers! I am normally a writer of Kim Possible stories with an occasional story from other shows, but I decided it was time to branch out a little more and what better way than with a fan version of a classic Simpsons tradition? I hope you'll all welcome me with open arms (just as long as they're not around my neck XD).