The Haunting

by TheLoneClone

Each of the Walton children were desperately waiting for the Halloween season. Even their father and grandfather did, too. But none of the Walton family members were prepared for the terrifying adventure to come this certain day. And the danger gets even worse when a vengeful husband joins the chase for the maniac loose on Walton's Mountain. Rated T for violent and scary scenes.

1. Prologue

In the days on Walton's Mountain, my family—especially the youngest generation—enjoyed the Halloween season. In fact, everyone, besides my mother and grandmother, enjoyed the time of the year that was referred to by many of the women of Walton's Mountain as the "Devil's Night."

I remember it on one of those days that my siblings and I, without our father and grandfather to help us, had an unexpected fright, one of the few we ever had on Walton's Mountain…

- from the journal of John Walton, Jr.