Dark tales to pass the long, dark nights....3 Scary StoriesFrom: October Rain As Layton drove, he noted the hills came closer together, grew steeper, then turned into bluffs. In the fields and along the roadside, out-croppings of gray rocks erupted from the ground like herds of a strange, extinct animal. At times the road became embedded among the sheared rocks, rising up on either side of his car, displaying their age in layers of rose and buff and gray. The layered patterns looked like myriad faces, watching him. At first the thought amused him, but as the sun cast longer shadows, he became uneasy. He hoped anxiously for a town. Finally he passed a small sign that said Pact, Kansas, lay three miles ahead....