... scary and too weird So I told them the whole story “Two black dogs—they jumped through the wall Into the kitchen One of them grabbed my lunch Then they dove through the door.” Big mistake Mom and ... wouldn’t budge Growling, the dogs eyed me hungrily Then they attacked 16 Their heavy paws thudded the ground as they came bounding toward me Their eyes glowed with excitement Their la...
... finding the ghost and getting his head pulled off The ghost of the sea captain vanished The headless ghost of the boy continued to haunt the house But that wasn’t the end of it.” Into the long, ... night the ghost of the poor boy searched the halls and rooms, looking for his missing head All through the house, say Otto and the other tour guides, you can hear...
... muttered Of course sometimes they didn’t pull the brain out the nose Sometimes they just sliced off the head Then they drained the brains out through the neck and put the head back on the body They ... make a sound The lid creaked and opened another inch Another inch I lowered the flashlight to the opening, the light quivering with my hand From the dark depths of t...
... the dummy up from the chair where it had spent the day beside Lindy’s dummy A can of Coke in one hand, the dummy over her shoulder, she headed to the dressing table and sat down in front of the ... backstage in the auditorium Kris’ throat was dry, and she kept walking over to the water fountain and slurping mouthfuls of the warm water The voices of the audi...
... crown The kids were little Two mothers watched them from the foot of the driveway Carly Beth watched them get their candy Then she walked the rest of the way to Sabrina’s house She climbed the ... Excellent! She leaned the head and stick against the wall and pulled on the mask Once again, the sour aroma rushed into her nostrils The heat of the mask seemed to wrap a...
... get them.” Keeping in the dark shadow of the house, we made our way around to the back I saw Buster, sound asleep beside his dog house in the center of the yard And then I saw the two lawn gnomes ... out of his pudgy head I peered into the shrubs—in time to see the gnomes come to life They stretched their arms over their heads And stroked their chins They shook out...
... explained The dogs—they all stopped I’m frightened, Justin They stopped all by themselves.” She pointed “Look at them.” Justin turned to the dogs at the front of the sled All six of them had their ... It was never one of mine The wind bent the grass back the other way In the far distance, I heard the flutter of wings once again And over the whisper of the wings,...
... to tell them everything And so she did The people next door, they’re not alive,” she blurted out “They’re ghosts You know Danny, the boy my age? He’s a ghost I know he is! And his mother—” “Hannah, ... Then turn right.” The light went out in the car The man thanked them and drove off The boys watched until the car had disappeared in the darkness Fred and Alan slapped each...
... barely make out the outlines of the Ping-Pong table in the center of the room The workroom to the right was brightly lit, so bright they had to blink and wait for their eyes to adjust Beams of white ... toward them, raising its tendrils as if beckoning to them, calling them back “Let’s just get out of here!” Margaret exclaimed All three of them were out of breath...
... through the front door Making my way through the stacks the tall, narrow shelves at the back of the main reading room—I dropped the skates against the wall Then I walked quickly through the aisles ... what I meant Some other people came into the library A little girl with her white-haired grandmother The little girl went skipping to the children’s book section The g...
... insisted We stepped into the shade of the trees at the swamp edge A funnel cloud of white gnats whirred crazily in a shaft of light between the trees “There’s a werewolf in the swamp, ” Cassie said, ... think they’re falcons It’s hard to see They sure are big.” We watched them soar out of sight Then we continued down the hill, making our way carefully on the damp, s...
... me He grabbed the scarecrow s straw hand and shook it “What’s up?” Mark asked it The scarecrow walks at midnight, ” Stanley said, repeating the phrase he had used at the train station Mark was ... slowed the truck and turned his eyes to me The scarecrow walks at midnight, ” he uttered in a low voice “Huh?” I wasn’t sure I’d heard correctly The scarecrow walks...
... this dog,” he sobbed “A ghost killed it Dogs can tell if someone’s a ghost Dogs always bark to warn about ghosts.” “Nat,” Terri said softly, “there’s no such thing as ghosts They’re pretend.” ... There are so many ghost stories from all around the world, how can ghosts not be real? Maybe that’s why I sometimes get scared when I am in strange places I think I believe in ghosts Of course,...
... Listening to the brush of the wind against the tent door, the soft creak of the tent poles, the flap of the canvas I don’t think I’d ever felt so alert Turning my head, I could see the pale glow of moonlight ... jeans I’d worn the day before I adjusted the scarab pendant under the T-shirt Then I carefully tucked the little mummy hand into the back pocket o...