The Candy Cane Man

Name: The Candy Cane Man
Author: Nathaniel Hurst

Nathaniel Hurst

Horror • 40 Pages •

Every December 24th, the town of Morningvale is forced to confront its darkest secret. A girl vanishes, only to be found dead in the town square—a twisted holiday ritual. Everyone knows the killer: The Candy Cane Man. But this year, he's made a fatal mistake. He chose the wrong girl.

Casey - New girl in town
Jonathan Crawford - Morningvale Mayor
Casey's parents

Casey gets a Christmas card signed by The Candy Cane Man - the first sign that he is coming for her.
Later that day Casey gets a phone call playing Christmas music - the second sign.
Casey goes home and finds a pile of candy canes on her bed - the third and final sign.
A few days later Casey goes to sleep while home alone.
Music downstairs wakes her up and she goes to see a man in all black holding a sharpened candy cane.
Casey tells him to come and get her then runs out the back door.
Casey leads him through the woods and to a pit she dug.
The Candy Cane Man falls into the pit, and Casey starts to fill it in. When she stops hearing his breathing, she checks and sees that he’s gone.
Casey runs to the town square where she hears people shouting.
Casey overhears the truth: the town sacrifices a girl to the Candy Cane Man every Christmas Eve in exchange for prosperity, wealth, and safety.
Casey runs home, grabs a candy cane lawn spike from her yard and heads back to the town square.
Casey faces the mob, and when an old woman lunges at her, she drives the candy cane spike through the woman’s mouth and out the back of her skull.
Casey kills another mob member and the remaining ones start to run away.
Casey walks to town hall to confront the Candy Cane Man.
Casey finds him in Mayor Crawford’s office - Mayor Crawford is the Candy Cane Man.
Krampus is there too - he's the one to whom Mayor Crawford delivers the sacrifice each Christmas Eve.
Mayor Crawford chose Casey as this year’s sacrifice because she lacks Christmas spirit and has a history of trouble in her old town.
Casey’s parents were behind it too - they were unhappy with Casey’s out of control behavior.
Casey runs and avoids capture until the clock hits 12:01.
It’s past midnight, and Krampus hasn’t gotten his sacrifice. He pulls out a red sack - inside are the fires of hell and the screams of the damned.
Krampus throws everyone in town - except Casey - into the sack.

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