"He Walked By Day" by Julius Long

"He Walked By Day" 

by Julius Long

From Spooky Campfire Stories

Edited by Amy Kelley

Tagline: Spooky outdoor tales for all ages.

I’ve returned to Spooky Campfire Stories because this story was very cool.  This type of ghost is not one I have really seen in ghost fiction. 

Karl Rand shows up at a worksite where some men are tarring a road and he asks for work.  He is tall, thin, sickly and scares everyone but he proves to be super strong.  He can work for long hours without a break and he never eats.  The workers call nickname him Shadow and, naturally, they want to know what his deal is. He tells them, very frankly, he’s a ghost.  He needs money for his mom who is very ill.  The workmen aren’t sure if they believe him because he appears real enough but he is so freakin’ creepy!

"Give Me Back My Guts!" by Richard and Judy Dockrey Young

Give Me Back My Guts!

By Richard and Judy Dockrey Young

From Spooky Campfire Stories (2000)

Edited by Amy Kelley

Tagline: Spooky outdoor tales for all ages.

A swindled widow wants to get revenge on the man who left her with nothing.  When he dies she joins the women paid to mourn him and sneaks into his vault.  She uses a knife to open him up and cut out his guts. The widow brings his guts home and begins to cooks them up into a stew called menudo. 

As she is cooking she hears the cows on the ranch calling out “Ah-oooo-ah.”  The atmosphere darkens and a storms rolls in.  Typical scary story noises are heard like the fence gate opening and a knocking at the door.  She suspects the noises are more than just the storm and the cattle now sound like they are saying asadura, which is the Spanish word for guts.  Then a voice outside says, “Give me back my asadura!”