Old Halloween Haunted House? Was it?

From the book "David's mark" Was this house I lived in haunted? It seemed to me it was when I was a boy.

All the fury of that Halloween was released that day, not all at once. The darkness and evil oozed out only a little at a time, black slime with smells of sulfur and the burning flesh of little boys being cut from their bones. Ugly, dark, black, hateful, bleak, shadows everywhere, monsters under the bed and in the closets crawling about your bedroom and waiting for you to close your eyes, and at no time a safe place to hide from it all.