15 Scream School by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine [Stine, R.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

13

“Let go of me!” Jake shrieked. “Put me down!”

The two ghouls held him off the floor. Their purple mouths spread in gleeful grins.

“Don’t you want to make a movie with us, Jake?” the woman rasped.

“Don’t you want to be our star?” her partner whispered.

“No! Put me down!” Jake insisted angrily. “Take me to my father—right now!”

“But we don’t know your father,” the man replied.

“We’ve been locked in here for so many years,” the woman said, shaking her head. Her dry, strawlike hair brushed Jake’s cheek. “We’ve been waiting here for so long … waiting for our star!”

“You’re crazy!” Jake cried. “You’re both crazy! Let go of me!”

“We’re going to have some fun,” the man said, lowering Jake to the floor. “Our movie is going to be the most terrifying ever made.”

“You’ll both be terrified when my dad finds out you’re here!” Jake threatened.

They both tossed back their heads and laughed.

“Your dad can’t do anything to us,” the woman said.

“Because we’re dead,” her partner added. “What can you do to someone who’s already dead?” He ran his fingers down the caked blood along his deep scar.

They both laughed again, dry, hoarse laughter that sounded more like coughing.

I’ve got to get out of here, Jake thought.

They’re both totally nuts! I’ve got to find a way out.

He began inching along the costume rack, his eyes searching the room for a door or window.

He stopped when the costume pile in the center of the floor began to move again.

Coats and dresses shook. The gorilla costume rolled over.

Two more ugly figures climbed up from beneath the pile. Two men. With long, dry hair like white straw, greenish skin, and frightening, purple-lipped grins.

They stood up, stretching, groaning as if they hadn’t moved in a hundred years.

“Noooo,” a low moan escaped Jake’s throat.

“Our cast is here!” the woman cried, moving to Jake’s side. Her fingers dug into the shoulder of his shirt.

“We can begin our movie!” the man declared. “We are here. At last, we are all here!”

Jake pulled free of the woman’s sharp grasp. He was breathing hard. His heart thudded against his chest.

“This is a joke—right?” he choked out. “This is some kind of a joke?”

One of the scraggly haired, yellow-eyed men vanished into the racks of costumes. A few seconds later, he returned, carrying a long stick in front of him like a flagpole.

Jake gasped.

What was that perched on top of the stick?

A head?

A human head?

Jake squinted up at it—and then opened his mouth in a shrill cry of horror when he recognized it.

Chelsea.

Chelsea’s head.

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