The Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost by Brad Strickland

Author:Brad Strickland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2010-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Lewis spent most of that afternoon worrying and trying to stay out of his uncle’s way. Jonathan was involved in some kind of legal transaction. It had to do, he had explained, with reviewing the stocks and bonds and other investments that brought him his income. “I only have to do this once every other year or so,” he had observed, “but it’s a pain!”

So while Jonathan scribbled and clicked off numbers on a battered old adding machine as he consulted folders and brochures in his study, Lewis tried to watch TV or read. He could not concentrate on either. Late that afternoon, Rose Rita rode over on her bike, and the two of them went to the backyard. “Well?” Lewis asked.

Rose Rita rolled her eyes. “Sally is a real motormouth! But I was right about her sister. She’s a volunteer at the hospital, and when she got home this afternoon, she told her family all about Billy and Stan. They’re suffering from anemia.”

Lewis frowned. “Anemia?”

“That’s kind of like loss of blood,” explained Rose Rita. “Their red corpuscles aren’t corpuscling, or whatever you call it. So they’re pretty weak. Both of them had to have a blood transfusion. The funny thing is, when those two got home yesterday, soaking wet, they didn’t have any memory of what happened to them. They were confused and acted so strange that their parents were worried. And Billy was pale and shaky, so his folks took him straight to the emergency room, and the doctors stuck him right into the hospital. Billy’s folks knew that he’d been hanging out with Stan, so they called Stan’s mom, and by that time Stan was so sick that they brought him in too.”

“Rose Rita,” said Lewis miserably, “what did that book say about the lamia? That it was a female vampire? Was that it?”

Rose Rita’s expression became serious. She folded her arms as if she were hugging herself, or trying to keep warm. “That was it.”

They stared at each other. Lewis couldn’t even bring himself to ask the question that had come into his mind.

What if Billy and Stan were not suffering from anemia at all?

What if some ghostly creature was drinking their blood?

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