Halloween

Stories tagged Halloween:

• Stingy Jack and the Jack-o'-Lantern Aug 16, 2025

  

  In the misty hills of County Cork, where the veil between this world and the next has always been thin, there once lived a man whose cleverness was matched only by his greed and whose fate would become forever linked with the autumn tradition of carved lanterns. His name was Jack O’Lantern, though the good people of his village knew him better as “Stingy Jack”—a title he had earned through a lifetime of penny-pinching, corner-cutting, and small-time swindling that made him the most despised man for miles around.