🎃 Sunday Screams: The Halloween II Animated Candy Bowl

🕯️ Monologue — “The Laugh That Didn’t Belong”

Silas Vorne’s study smelled of dust, firewood, and secrets.

Every shelf was a museum of other people’s mistakes—cursed relics under glass, vials of shadow sealed with wax, and something that shouldn’t have been there at all:

A candy bowl.

Its cracked ceramic grin showed The Shape’s mask in miniature—white, cold, expressionless. Inside, a handful of wrapped sweets sat untouched, their paper wrinkled like they’d been there since the first Halloween.

When I leaned closer, a faint sensor blinked red. I expected a jump scare. Instead, the bowl laughed—slow, breathy, and human.

Silas didn’t even look up from his chair. “It finds humor in fear,” he said quietly.

“Some call it an animatronic. I call it a mirror.”

The laugh echoed again. Louder. Longer.

And for one horrible moment… I swear it whispered my name.

(The Storyteller glances once more toward the bowl before returning to you, the reader.)

That brings us to tonight’s feature…

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🍬 Review — Halloween II Animated Candy Bowl (1981)

This isn’t just a piece of Halloween décor—it’s a cursed prank disguised as nostalgia.

The Halloween II Animated Candy Bowl invites you to grab a sweet, then lunges forward with Michael Myers’ chilling mask and the faint echo of that familiar breathing. The motion sensor is hidden so well, you’ll swear it’s psychic.

It’s less a collectible and more a test of courage for whoever dares to reach inside.

Nightmare Nuggets:

The blue lighting and mask sculpt mirror the Halloween II hospital sequence perfectly.

Its motion sensor sometimes activates when no one’s near it—especially after midnight.

Early versions reportedly contained a warped laughter loop that wasn’t part of production audio.

Ideal centerpiece for any haunted shelf or October setup—just… don’t keep it near mirrors.

Even Silas’s version seemed to breathe on its own.

Maybe it’s just clever design.

Or maybe—like all things touched by the dark—it remembers.

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📖 The Storyteller Chronicles — The Files of Shadows: “What the Cameras Saw”

The air in that room didn’t just feel heavy.

It crushed.

“We’ll give you three hours,” Silas said from his high-backed chair near the flickering hearth. His voice never rose—never cracked. That made it worse. Like he'd done this before.

“Help me open the way to Elyndor’s heartspring… or I won’t be responsible for what happens to one very special girl…”

He paused just long enough for a cruel smile to cut across his face.

“And her grandparents.”

Silence shattered like glass.

Val shot forward with a scream ripped straight from her soul—bat raised high, eyes blazing through tears—but Nyra caught her mid-leap by both arms.

“No! Not here!” she growled into Val’s ear as they crashed against the wall, struggling like sisters in war instead of friends on fire.

Cameras glowed red around us—in chandeliers shaped like ravens’ skulls, behind gilded mirrors lined with runes that pulsed too regularly for decoration.

They were watching.

Listening.

Waiting.

Mr Harris stepped forward without expression—a ghost in charcoal wool—and opened the door behind him without speaking a word.

“This way.”

No question.

No choice.

Only motion up twisting marble stairs into deeper shadow above us all.

We were led into an opulent guest room draped in velvet silence—the windows barred beneath sealed shutters; no exits unseen—and on every surface meant for reflection? Tiny lenses hidden inside silver fox statues mounted along shelves:

> Watching again.

Recording every breath.

“The cameras are off,” Mr Harris stated flatly before locking us inside.

As if we could believe that lie.

Val dropped onto a chaise lounge—no longer screaming—but trembling hard enough that her fingers dug into palms until blood welled where nails bit flesh.

“They have Lita…” she whispered—not at us—but at something only she could see between heartbeats. “My baby…”

A pause so quiet we all stopped breathing just to hear what came next:

“She still calls me Mama when she thinks no one's listening.” Her voice wobbled then broke entirely: “She draws little bat-girl superheroes saving cupcakes... She doesn’t know magic is real…”

Then rage erupted again:

“I say YES! We give him whatever he wants! The necklace—heartspring—Elyndor—I DON’T CARE!”

Nyra turned sharply toward her—not calm anymore either—but cold-fire intense:

“You think Vorne will let any of them live once he gets power?”

Her vampire eyes burned dark red now—not fully transformed but close—as shadows crawled unnaturally around floorboards near where she stood:

“If Elyndor’s heartspring breaks?” She took a step closer to Val so their foreheads almost touched—one mother facing another across an abyss of fear and hope alike. “That energy holds back ancient forces older than gods. Things sleeping below roots of living mountains.”

She lowered her voice then: barely more than breath against skin:

“The Threxil isn't locked away because someone felt like it—it devours reality itself when unleashed."

Kaelen hadn't spoken since entering Vorne Tower—he sat curled up atop an antique writing desk clicking those long razor-sharp nails together rhythmically…

Click-click-click … pause … click-click-click

Like time counting itself down heartbeat by heartbeat…

I paced slowly—a nervous habit ever since first wearing this cursed necklace—but tonight?

My thoughts weren’t bouncing…

They were diving deep—

What if we bring them there?

Send Silas right through? Dump him onto hostile ground guarded by elder clans who remember humans tearing holes across realms…

Let Threxil rise?

It would crush Wendigo,

shred Rougarou,

and rip out Vorne’s spine before dessert—

But then came its voice—not loud or monstrous—but quiet as memory buried under years:

> "You know better."

The necklace pulsed once deep within my chest—a warning stitched beneath bone now.

Threxil does not protect.

It consumes balance along with everything else.

Unleashed here? It wouldn't stop until Hollow Creek was dust, spreading nightmares underground via subway tunnels, feeding off panic, twisting life until nothing remained human—or sane—even if Vorne died first.

It wouldn't care about revenge...

Only hunger.

I dropped onto one knee briefly—not pain exactly…but grief hitting harder than any blade ever could:

We weren't choosing who lives...

We were deciding how much dies when we fail.

Back above ground again—we had nothing new after minutes—or feels like lifetimes?

Voices overlap: anger fades; exhaustion wins instead...

Tick tick tick…

Then—a knock at last—the door creaking open slightly—

Mr Harris slipped inside silently holding up something small black rectangular device—

A tablet screen lit bright blue against dim candlelight.

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