Real-Life Scary Kids

Ages 10 and up. These twelve real-life stories are sure to please the reader who enjoys tales of ghosts and strange visitations. This is not a true "horror" book. The tales are based on real claims--people who say they saw or experienced the event or on historical accounts of unsolved mysteries. Willowisp Press imprint.

From the Publisher

We have had many parents and teachers tell us that this book was especially good for an attention-deficit child or reluctant reader because he or she could finish one story at a time and feel successful.

From the Back Cover

Between the covers of this book you will find children--some are living and some are not. You will read about . . . two young princes whose ghosts uncovered a grisly secret a little girl's ghost who saved her mother's life a "glowing" boy who brings good fortune--and horrifying death a phantom wolf-girl who roams the Texas plains . . . and eight other Real-Life Scary Kids

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Before she fell into a deep and healing sleep, the woman croaked to the doctor, "How did you know to come to me?" "It was your daughter," the doctor answered. "She led me to you," he said pointing to where he had last seen the little girl in the light blue dress. Only the girl wasn't there. "But my daughter," the women's voice was choked again, this time by a sob. "She had the same disease and she-well, she didn't make it. She died two weeks ago today-at the very stroke of midnight." Dr. Murphy was sure the woman was still delirious from the fever. There had been a little girl, and she was very much alive. He had just seen her a minute ago. And she had been dressed in a blue shift and worn, torn, holey shoes. The woman must be hallucinating. "Ah, my dear lady, you rest now. You are surely mistaken." "No," the woman insisted, the tears now streaming down her face. "She's with the angels now. She was so sick. I went to find a doctor, but no one would come here. By the time I got home, she was gone." The doctor sighed, and stroked the woman's hand sympathetically. "It couldn't be so. I just saw her . . ." "All I have left of her," the woman continued, "is her dress, the one she was wearing when she died. And her shoes, not much good to anyone they were so worn. I sold her body to a medical school for research. I couldn't afford a funeral, and I needed the money. But the dress and the shoes-I still have them. They're in the closet, there . . ." Dr. Murphy walked to the wardrobe that she pointed to, more to satisfy her than anything. But when he opened the door to the closet, he felt his heart choke with terror. There, in the closet, hung the same light blue dress the little girl had been wearing. And, on the floor underneath, were the worn and holey shoes.

About the Author

There is nothing Tracey Dils likes better than a good ghost story. When she was growing up, she loved to scare her friends and family with terrifying tales of haunted places. In fact, she scared her little sister so badly that to this day she still sleeps with the lights on! Tracey has never actually seen a ghost, but she has seen evidence of one. She was having lunch at an old inn in her hometown. The inn was said to be haunted. While she was eating, a tray of salt and pepper shakers rose off a counter, hung in midair for a few seconds, and then fell to the floor in one big crash. Tracey thinks that a ghost was trying to get her attention so that she'd write a story about it. When she's not writing or spending time with her husband, Richard, and her two children, Emily and Phillip, Tracey loves to talk to young people about writing. She has held ghost-story writing workshops in schools, libraries, and writing centers throughout her home state. Tracey is also the author of Real-Life Scary Places, Real-Life Strange Encounters, and The Scariest Stories You've Ever Heard, Part III. She has also written several picture books, including Annabelle's Awful Waffle, A Look Around Coral Reefs, Big Bad Bugs, and Leapin' Lizards.

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