Goosebumps Most Wanted #4: Frankenstein’s Dog by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2013-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

I blinked. His request shocked me. “Why?” I said. “What’s that about? Why can’t I leave my room?”

“I bring the guard dogs in at night,” he replied. “If you are out in the hall, they might think you are an intruder.”

“Excuse me? You bring them into the house?”

He nodded. “My work is very important. And I worry about intruders. The villagers. They are very superstitious people. I worry they might come here and try to destroy my work.”

“Uncle Victor,” I said, “do you ever talk to people in the village? Do you ever try to explain to them that you’re building robots with computer brains — not monsters?”

He sighed. “I can’t talk to them, Kat. They won’t listen. They are afraid of science, afraid of anything new. They only think of the first Victor Frankenstein. And they remember his monster.”

He turned and strode down the hall toward his office in the back of the house. He has changed, I thought.

Whenever he visited our house, he was lively and fun. He made silly jokes, and we always laughed a lot. I guessed that his work had made him tense. He really didn’t seem like the same person.

With a sigh, I gathered up my broken phone and made my way upstairs to my room. The old wooden stairs creaked as I climbed, and I heard soft footsteps behind me.

I turned to see Poochie following me. “Are you coming to keep me company?” I asked.

He let out a yip, turned, and scurried back down the stairs.

“You’re weird,” I said, shaking my head.

I stepped into my room. The air felt cold and damp. I decided I’d better sleep in a sweater tonight.

I turned and closed the heavy wooden door behind me. I tried to lock it, but the lock was broken. I stood at the door for a moment, listening to the silence out in the hall. I shuddered, thinking of those two vicious guard dogs patrolling the halls at night.

I forced myself to think about something else. I thought of Mom and Dad back home. I wanted to drop them an e-mail. Or maybe post something on their Facebook page.

But, of course, I couldn’t. My laptop was useless since Uncle Victor had no wireless or phone connection up here.

Of course, he had a dozen computers in the lab. But he probably wouldn’t want me using one.

So, I sat down at the desk facing the window. I found paper and envelopes in the top drawer. Sitting on the edge of the squeaky old leather desk chair, I wrote a long letter to Mom and Dad.

I told them I was fine and Uncle Victor was taking good care of me. I told them how hard he was working and about the robots he was building.

Of course, I didn’t tell them about spilling a chemical on Poochie and making him grow huge. I did tell them about Frank the robot escaping. But I made it sound funny.

Then I told them about my broken phone. I asked them to rush me another phone as fast as they could.

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