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My Halloween nightmare

I was in a sound sleep when someone suddenly opened my bedroom's door. It was very dark, almost midnight. I opened my eyes. At first, I couldn't see anything. My eyes weren't accustomed to the darkness. The only things I could see: two red points on my white bedsheet.

It was creepy because I did not know what would happen. Suddenly, the moon came out from behind the clouds. Before my bed stood a figure dressed in a dark linen fabric; a deep manly voice commanded me to come with him. His voice sounded as if it were coming from a deep grave. His eyes, like fire, made the red marks on my bed.

I felt goosebumps on my skin and was unable to say anything. I wanted to scream, but not a single sound came out of my mouth. I got up, though I did not want to go with him, as if I were in a trance, like a robot.

I wondered where my husband and my kids would be. The bed beside me was empty, and while I followed this ghost, I could see through the open doors of the kid rooms that there was no one lying in their beds. I panicked and felt tears running over my cheeks.

This terrible ghost figure led me to the basement. I arrested my step because I saw with fright that a lot of blood leaked through the door gap.

My heart was pumping hard. I felt my pulse in my temples. My hands were wet with the cold sweat, and my knees were shaking.

I could not speak and was close to collapse. The terrible ghost opened the door. I held my hands before my eyes, in order not to see what he wanted to show me.

Suddenly, I did hear the voices of my husband and children. They laughed loudly.
I opened my eyes and saw my family, sitting around a big table.
There were heaps of dead turkeys on the table, enough for the whole neighborhood.

It is not Thanksgiving, it's just Halloween," I thought. Suddenly, I could speak again. "Why did you kill all the turkeys?," I screamed out loud; I was frightened because my voice has sounded like an echo.

The lovely faces of my family changed to grinning masks with big red fiery eyes and from their lips dropped blood. The stood up and came with their long sharp knives and shuffling steps toward me. They looked suddenly like monsters who wanted to catch me.
I ran out of the house and landed in a dark and dense forest.

I ran and ran. The branches of the trees hit my face, my arms, and my legs. Panicked, I ran as fast as I could.
Suddenly, I stopped running. Far ahead of me, I saw some of flying coffins. One of the coffins left the group and flew toward me. I was scared and wanted to flee.
But then I saw a woman under the trees. She looked like a witch.

They talked, but it was impossible to understand their words. Then the coffin was closed again and flew away. Behind it, sparks flew because as the coffin repeatedly touched the stony forest ground.
The scenery had been very confusing, creepy, and frightening. I couldn't walk a step. My heart was racing.

When I could control my legs again, I turned around and decided to go home. When I reached my house, one of the coffins flew toward me. The body of a giant caterpillar with many legs came out of the coffin and one of its legs tried to grab one of my arms. I was unable to open the door and screamed very loudly.

"Darling, wake up," the voice of my husband called to me. "Hahaha, you are afraid of Halloween, you had a nightmare," he said and laughed aloud. 
"Right! It's the day of Halloween!" I thought and got up to prepare breakfast for my family. I knew I would need strong nerves to survive that day, and especially that night.