We're giving you the chance to find out with the Yorkshire Evening Post's Ghost Story Competition.

And we're offering up a chilling prize for you and your family.

We're giving away family Hallowe'en sleepover tickets to the Jorvik Museum in York for Saturday November 1.

This could be the start of a glittering writing career or a one-off excursion into the life of a writer - it's up to you.

To enter or read other entries, click here to go to www.hauntedleeds.co.uk and click on the 'enter here' link.

Suspense But while the likes of Stephen King can spend 1,000 pages building up the suspense, we're giving you just 500 words to scare the living daylights out of us.

It doesn't have to be fiction, you can base it on something you may have experienced.

But it does have to be scary.

All the entries will be judged by the Haunted Leeds team - which recently carried out six paranormal investigations at various Leeds buildings.

The team is made up of medium Barrie John, of UK Living's Most Haunted fame, YEP reporters Debbie Leigh and Grant Woodward, YEP commercial manager Nicola Atkinson and paranormal investigator Lynne Robinson.

They're looking for a story that can tread that fine line of being scary but printable in a family newspaper.

Haunted Leeds series producer Geoff Fox said: "This is a fabulous chance for our readers to have a go at some proper creative writing and see it published online and in the paper.

"Ghost stories are one of those genres where everyone thinks they can do it - but scaring people is hard. It takes real imagination.

"I would expect our entrants to be inspired by something they may have experienced in their own lives, movies, novels and maybe even one of the episodes of Haunted Leeds." The winner will see his or her story published right here in the pages of the Yorkshire Evening Post.

The winner will see his or her story published in the pages of the Yorkshire Evening Post.

All publishable entries will appear here on the Haunted Leeds website where you can also watch our six exclusive paranormal investigations and find out more about our forthcoming Hallowe'en special.

To enter, click here to go to www.hauntedleeds.co.uk and click on the 'enter here' link.

Alternatively, post your entries to Geoff Fox, Haunted Leeds Ghost Story Competition, Yorkshire Evening Post, Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 1RF.

The closing date is noon on Wednesday October 29.