In the middle of the night
I woke up with a start
When I felt some heavy breathing
Neighbouring my heart

I rubbed my eyes to see
A frightening monstrous surprise
Staring back at me sternly
With two giant wobbly eyes

He crawled ever so close to me
And gave a hideous roar
Everything started to tremble
Even the windows and the door

I stretched my right hand out
To keep the monster at bay
Hid my face between the knees
As I began to cry and pray

The monster took my hand
Shook it a little bit
I looked up and saw him smiling
I was at the end of my wit

O’ the monster was only lonely
He had no bad intend
The roar was his way of saying
“Will you be my friend?”

Yes, we are good friends now
But don’t tell this to my brother
Keep this our little secret
Maybe I’ll tell you another

Daniel is my friend
He is looking for some food
My father is a nuisance
So I gave him up for good

Daniel is my friend
With a large appetite
He made a meal of my sister
But I guess it is alright

Daniel is my friend
Hungry as can be
When she wasn’t looking
He gulped my mom in three

Daniel is my friend
The cops are looking for him
Neighbours must have called ’em
Hearing my brother scream

Daniel is my friend
But he’s left me here for dead
The cops just could not find him
So they arrested me instead

Daniel is my friend
But our friendship now must end
No more friend like Daniel
No more imaginary friends

In my dreams I’m falling
From thirty thousand feet
When I hear a sound calling
And my heart skips a beat
Don’t know from where it’s coming
But I know it’s meant for me
When suddenly I’m becoming
Invisible and free
All my secrets are flying
Flying away with the birds
Oh I tried screaming and crying
But I couldn’t find no words
Next, I’m swimming in an ocean
Trying to find a shore
Well I yell out in the open
All ‘cross the ocean floor
Then I wake up all sweating
My dream — what could it mean?
It’s hard to keep forgetting
It comes every Halloween

Something dark lurking
Is it my shadow
Or is it just me?
Is it a ghost of my nightmares
That haunts my sleep every night?
His slithering tongue
His daunting laugh
Terrorises my heart
As he hovers in my head
But this cannot be that ghost
This is something different
Something darker
Something more frightening
Something unknown
Is it the ghost’s shadow?
Do ghosts even cast shadows?

My best friend was seven
When he died last year
In the sea we were swimming
Then he disappeared
Now the ghost of my friend
Comes to play with me
All the folks in this town
Think I’ve gone crazy
But they can’t see what I see
They don’t understand
I don’t really blame them
They’ve never had a friend
Never had a friend with whom
They went to have a swim
Took him to the deep end
To watch the sea devour him

I like all things coloured red
Like the blood losing from your head
And your face smeared with it
As you lie cold and dead

Last night I heard a whisper
A soft strange chilling sound
When I woke up I saw
My cell phone floating around

It looked at me and laughed
It gave me a hideous smile
I laid there quite confused
I laid still for a while

Then it came close to me
Patted me once or twice
Don’t remember much after that
It put sleep in my eyes

This morning when I awoke
The device was lying still
Just like I had left it
No life or force or will

I shrugged it off my mind
Like a dream that felt too real
Carried on with my routine
Like it was no big a deal

But it’s night time now
The horror is back it seems
I pinched myself to find
That these are no dreams

I see their eyes glow in the night
And it scares me
I can see no other light
It despairs me
…
They fly and circle, suck my blood
And it’s deadly
I can’t fight or speak a word
I lose sadly
…
Save me, someone save me please
Get me out
They’ve got me crawling on my knees
Down and out
…
Is this a dream? Am I surreal?
I hope not
All this pain just feels too real
It’s all I’ve got

A is for Anxious
B is for Blood
Z is for Zombies
Covered in mud

C is for Cat
D is for Dark
W is for Wolf
With its scary bark

E is for Evil
F is for Fright
Q is for Queen
The queen of the night

G is for Ghosts
H is for House
Which is cursed and haunted
M is for Mouse

I am Insecure
J is for Jack
U is for Undead
Who are coming back

K means a King
Who killed his hundred wives
L stands for Lost
All the lost lives

N is for Night-time
O is for Owl
P is for Panic
When you hear a howl

R is for Raven
S is for Soul
Y is for You
They’re gonna eat you whole

T is for Tragic
V for Vampire
X are those dead eyes
On a funeral pyre

My body houses eleven rats
They nibble and chew at my heart
The first one’s not afraid of cats
The second finds murder an art

The third one often plays dirty
Keeps running around here and there
The fourth is granted full liberty
The fifth rat is her heir

The sixth rat drinks all my blood
The seventh likes to have a smoke
The eighth one rolls around in mud
The ninth’s too wise for a joke

The tenth has a library to keep
Literature of all known pains
The last one puts everyone to sleep
So tomorrow they can start again