Crick Crack, 13 Ghoulish Tales for Tweens

By Vlad Pale

Pre-teens will enjoy the spooky twists on situations recognizable from their own lives. Here you will jockey with a ghost at a sleepover, battle otherworldly monsters in a crosswalk at school, and risk your fate on a fiendish roller coaster. Plus meet a shadow with an unusual ambition, pursue an eerie solution for impossible homework, and face the creature that won't let go of your loose tooth. Seven additional stories lurk, each equally hair-raising. Vlad Pale's Crick Crack, 13 Ghoulish Tales for Tweens, should be a go-to favorite in every pre-teen's library.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vlad Pale
• Release date: Aug 30, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301831821

Vlad Pale

Vlad Pale authors scary, wondrous tales for tweens, residents of the extraordinary realm between child and teenager.

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Crick Crack

13 Ghoulish Tales for Tweens

By Vlad Pale

Copyright 2013 Vlad Pale

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Foreword

Welcome to my lair. I am your host, vampire Vlad Pale, and I bid you good reading. The thirteen stories herein are particularly succulent—and more than a little bit wicked.

Should you choose to proceed, I suggest the following tips for survival:

1. Find a suit of armor that fits just right.

2. Put it on.

Continue if you dare.

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Table of Contents

Destination Ghoul

The Owl and the Necklace

Wastelands

The Blinking Cursor

Winning

The Green Mist

Shortcut

Skull and Bones

Fruit Salad

Sirens

Root of the Matter

The Gate

The Shadow That Did Not Want To Be A Shadow

Afterword

Special Thanks

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Destination Ghoul

Everybody at school was talking about the carnival that crept into town during the middle of the night. Roustabouts raised tents in Baker's Field. Motors ran. A roller coaster was assembled, taking shape high above the tents, track unfurling into the sky.

After school on Friday, Doug and Ray raced to Baker's Field. The air sky blue, the grass of the midway as yet untrampled. The coaster loomed.

Let's go see! Doug pushed Ray onto the midway, where a sign announced the coaster's name.

Destination Ghoul, Ray read.

He had barely finished when a scowling man with biceps like basketballs stepped in front of them.

Carnival don't open 'til seven, he growled. Get lost.

The boys wasted no time following the man's orders.

At seven, though, in the