It will take hardy readers indeed to sit comfortably in their own classrooms by day-or for that matter, hope for peaceful dreams at night-after these screamers.Ĭhildren are snatched from their beds and erased from all memory. The most lurid twist comes at the end of the last and longest entry, “The Door to Demons,” which turns out to be not made up at all but a frame story that touches off a mad scramble to escape a teacher who has suddenly transformed into a toothy, terrifying monster with a spectacularly weird upside-down head. Those and other tales that feature ghosts and conversations with a decapitated stranger are related in even tones that work effectively with the sepia and other subdued color schemes in Annable’s cartoon panels to provide properly slow builds to horrifying climaxes. Emily tells of a spaceship’s crew that looks human…right up until the tentacles shoot out of their eyes and mouths.
Alvin, for instance, shares a historical tale of a village that vanishes after previously friendly green bipedal “fish people” discover a taste for human flesh.
Nomed (mark the name) to tell “the eeriest story you have,” five young volunteers, variously light or dark of skin, stand up in turn to petrify their classmates. Together, they might just help Edgar find what he needs to finally be at peace.A gathering of genuinely chilling tales, related by children in a classroom and presented in graphic format. For curious Barbara Anne, Henry's also a riddle-a boy who sits alone at recess sketching in a mysterious notebook, a boy, she soon learns, who's being haunted by a ghost named Edgar.With the help of some new friends, this unlikely duo is off on an adventure to discover who Edgar was while alive and why he's haunting Henry now. Perfect for fans of A Tale Dark and Grimm!Ghosts only haunt when they've left something behind.When Henry Davis moves into the neighborhood, Barbara Anne and her classmates at Washington Carver Elementary don't know what to make of him.
Two kids are about to find out that their lives are anything but ordinary when a ghost arrives and stirs up adventure.
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