All tricks, not one treat.
Type:
Short
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
3pp
Genre:
Horror
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
17+
Based On:
My short story.
Synopsis/Details
Pudgy Joey really wants a Charleston Chew from the Canbys' house, but they are using the animatronic Witchiepoo Max to give out the candy this year - and she scares him. The life-size figure has all the characteristics of a witch. She cackles and speaks haunting, Halloween-specific phrases that frighten him. His mother reluctantly agrees to hold his sweaty hand for the stroll down the Canbys' cobblestone walk. As Joey reaches for his treat, the Max comes alive - seizing him and flying off into the night sky on her broom. She is thrilled that she "won't need to buy food for a week."

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The Writer: Mike Murphy

Mike, a four-time Parsec Awards finalist, has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas. He’s won a dozen Moondance International Film Festival Awards (winner, finalist, and semi-finalist) in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories. A more complete list of awards is presented below by year. In 2025, his TV pilot script Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator was a quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9), Solutions, Inc. (another TV pilot script) was a quarter-finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Pilot Screenplay Competition, short screenplay The Price of Friendship was a semi-finalist in the Filmmatic Short… Go to bio
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