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Mark Paren
Stingy Jack’s Last Trick — A Halloween Tale
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Sub-genres:
Paranormal Romance,
Gothic
A note on this story: it is written in the dense, melancholy register of 19th-century Gothic fiction, and does not shy from grief, loneliness, or loss along its way to its ending.
For a hundred and fifty years, Jack has walked a county that has forgotten him, a farm boy who bartered his soul at a crossroads and paid twice over for it. Refused by Heaven, unclaimed by Hell, he has only a stolen coal to light his way, and windows he can watch but never touch.
Then he finds Julian's: nineteen, ill, certain no one would notice if he stopped waking. As October nears Halloween, the veil thins, and an old bargain comes due.
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- 09/20/2026 (Updated: 10/11/2026)
- 6 Chapters
- 17,191 Words
- 1,159 Views
- 42 Comments
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Table of Contents
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1.
Chapter 1 The Peddler's Boy
- 3,911 Words
- 296 Views
- 8 Comments
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Chapter 2 Obadiah
- 2,362 Words
- 175 Views
- 7 Comments
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Chapter 3 Ash
- 2,465 Words
- 160 Views
- 16 Comments
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Chapter 4 Windows
- 2,107 Words
- 86 Views
- 4 Comments
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Chapter 5. The Whole Clean Shape of It
- 1,870 Words
- 71 Views
- 4 Comments
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Chapter 6. What the Storm Carried
- 4,476 Words
- 68 Views
- 3 Comments
