A learning module that includes fourteen links to websites, videos, and activities on writing scary stories. Lessons focus on vocabulary, plot and character development, elements of gothic stories, tone and mood, suspense, and more.

This famous "Ghost," story is especially popular around Halloween. Read the original version by Washington Irving here.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a flipchart designed to help students write a multi-paragraph story. Students will write a story about a Haunted House that they walk through and detail what happens to them in each room.

"In this unit, students explore the artistry that helped make Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween -- What happened to Ichabod Crane?"