TORNADO - Halloween Festival: A Gripping Tale of Survival When a Catastrophic Storm Decimates a Small Town's Celebration

by James Calloway

The annual Hollow Creek celebration is the town's pride, a perfect autumn day filled with laughter, parade floats, and the sweet smell of caramel apples. This year is the biggest yet, drawing crowds from across the state. But as the sun sets, the sky darkens with an unnatural shade of green.

The weather warnings come too late.

When an EF5 monster descends upon the crowded festivities, the heart of the community becomes a storm-ravaged warzone. A first responder battles through the debris to find the living. A mother clings to her child as the world is ripped apart around them. A meteorologist, miles away, watches his worst nightmare unfold on the radar, helpless to stop the destruction.

Caught in the terrifying heart of the vortex, with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, the residents of Hollow Creek are about to discover that the real horror isn't the monster in the dark, but the one in the sky. Can anyone make it through the night?

Genres: Novella

74 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 25, 2025

Reviews

[Savannah C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Overall, this was a good book. I could see the potential it had.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was actually well done. Wish it could have been fleshed out some more, but it had me cheering for the townspeople.