Goosebumps - 11 - The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Horror & Ghost Stories
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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I’ll chew her to bits! I’ll tear her skin off her bones! Furious thoughts raged through Carly Beth’s mind.

She tensed her muscles, crouched low, and prepared to pounce.

But before she could make her move, the two boys pulled their mother away.

“Let’s go, Mom.”

“Yeah. Let’s go. She’s crazy!”

Yeah. I’m crazy. Crazy, crazy, CRAZY. The word repeated, roaring through Carly Beth’s mind. The mask grew hotter, tighter.

The woman gave Carly Beth one last cold stare. Then she turned and led the two boys down the driveway.

Carly Beth stared after them, panting loudly. She had a strong urge to chase after them—to really scare them!

But a loud cry made her stop and spin around.

Sabrina stood on the front stoop, leaning on the storm door, her mouth open in a wide O of surprise. “Who’s there?” she cried, squinting into the darkness.

Sabrina was dressed as Cat Woman, with a silver-and-gray catsuit beneath a silver mask. Her black hair was pulled tightly behind her head. Her dark eyes stared intently at Carly Beth.

“Don’t you recognize me?” Carly Beth rasped, stepping closer.

She could see the fright in Sabrina’s eyes. Sabrina gripped the door handle tightly, standing half in and half out of her house.

“Don’t you recognize me, Sabrina?” She waved the head on the broomstick, as if giving her friend a clue.

Sabrina gasped and raised her hand to her mouth as she noticed the head on the pole. “Carly Beth—is that—is that you?” she stammered. Her eyes darted from the mask to the head, then back again.

“Hi, Sabrina,” Carly Beth growled. “It’s me.”

Sabrina continued to study her. “That mask!” she cried finally. “It’s excellent! Really. Excellent. It’s so scary.”

“I like your catsuit,” Carly Beth told her, stepping closer, into the light.

Sabrina’s eyes were raised to the top of the broomstick. “That head—it’s so real! Where did you get it?”

“It’s my real head!” Carly Beth joked.

Sabrina continued to stare at it. “Carly Beth, when I first saw it, I—”

“My mom made it,” Carly Beth told her. “In her art class.”

“I thought it was a real head,” Sabrina said. She shivered. “The eyes. The way they stare at you.”

Carly Beth shook the broomstick, making the head nod.

Sabrina studied Carly Beth’s mask. “Wait till Chuck and Steve see your costume.”

I can’t wait! Carly Beth thought darkly. “Where are they?” she demanded, glancing back to the street.

“Steve called,” Sabrina replied. “He said they’d be late. He has to take his little sister trick-or-treating before he can meet us.”

Carly Beth sighed, disappointed.

“We’ll start without them,” Sabrina suggested. “They can catch up to us later.”

“Yeah. Okay,” Carly Beth replied.

“I’ll get my coat and we can go,” Sabrina said. She took one last, lingering look at the head on the broomstick, then the storm door slammed shut with a bang as she disappeared inside to get her coat.

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