The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight

[cyberghostface]

This is from Goosebumps: Creepy Creatures.











The kids notice their grandparents acting different; their grandmother isn't making her traditional pancakes and their grandfather isn't telling his usual stories. Jodie later thinks she sees the scarecrows moving on their own.






Jodie and thinks the moving scarecrows are just Stanley's son playing a joke so they decide to play a similar prank on him. It turns out however that the scarecrows are actually alive; Sticks says that his father brought the scarecrows to life using the book of superstitions the previous week before Jodie and Mark came. Stanley made a deal with Grandpa Kurt and Grandma Miriam; if the couple agreed to never laugh at him again and do everything that he wanted, he would put the scarecrows to sleep. They agreed, and the scarecrows were put to sleep. Now, Grandpa Kurt and Grandma Miriam have been living in fear of Stanley; Grandma Miriam only makes Stanley's favorite food, and Grandpa Kurt stopped telling ghost stories because Stanley didn't like them.





Mark tries to trick them into taking their heads off. 

Comments

[blues32]

Wow...I had this book. I remember it vividly because there was a part that described Stanley running from the scarecrows in such a way that I had a mental picture of Shaggy from Scooby Doo running.