When searching for a Halloween related short story to read, start with this source. It has a great collection of iconic, canonical stories that you have likely encountered. But there will surely be come you have not:

https://americanliterature.com/halloween

Your homework is to post the title, author, and a summary of the story you’ve read as a comment to this blog post. In your description of the story, include one sentence that covers the who-what-when-where of the story (setting, characters, plot). Add another sentence that summarizes the morale of the tale, and your thoughts on the story (theme, what you think of the story).