Dare to be Scared
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| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
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| Illustrator | David Ouimet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Children's, Horror short stories |
| Publisher | Cricket Books |
| Publication date | 2003 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback |
| Pages | 159 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-8126-2688-5 |
| Followed by | Double-Dare to be Scared |
Dare to be Scared is a 2003 children's horror short story collection by Robert D. San Souci and illustrated by David Ouimet, with thirteen scary stories.
[edit] Stories
[edit] 1. Nighttown
A boy named Sammy has a nightmare of people having long, sharp fangs. When he wakes up, he realizes his parents also have long, sharp fangs and sees the night sky has light, but no moon or stars.
[edit] 2. The Dark, Dark House
After being dared by his friends, a boy named Peter must go in a creepy, supposedly haunted house and write his name on a chalkboard to prove he was there. As he is in the house, he hears strange noises. A hairy monster appears and chases Peter out of the house and all the way to his own house, with the last lines (which is the monster's) being , "What's the matter? Don't you like me?"
[edit] 3. The Caller
A girl name Lindsay has a beautiful ring given from her Aunt Margaret, who passed away. Lindsay had pretended to like her Aunt because she only wanted her ring. When Lindsay gets a call from an unknown caller, who says it's her Aunt Margaret, Lindsay tells the caller she never liked her, she just wanted her ring, then hangs up. While Lindsay's at her friend's house, Missy, she gets another call from her Aunt Margaret who says she's coming back to get her ring. When Lindsay hears footsteps behind a door, she thinks it's Margaret. While the door is still closed, Missy says she's on the other side, laughing at Lindsay. Mad at Missy, Lindsay opens the door, but it's revealed that Margaret is standing outside the door.
[edit] 4. The Double-Dare
Four boys have their own club and they run through woods everyday that are supposedly filled with evil spirits. A boy named Greg hangs with them a lot, but the boys only like him for his computer games. Against his will, they make him run through the woods, but while he's running through, sap is spread on him and he's transformed into a terrible tree monster. Upset, he finds the four boys, and spreads sap on them also.
[edit] 5. Space Is the Place
In Mark's town, weird lights have appeared in the sky, believed to be aliens. Mark's mother wants to leave the town, against Mark's wishes. Leaving town on a city bus, Mark and his mom and everyone else leaving, begin to panic when the bus driver drives into an unknown place. Then, Mark and everyone else realize they're being sucked into a hole of a UFO.
[edit] 6. Ants
Kyle lies to his mom, saying that he's going to see a Disney movie, when he's going to see a horror film called Jungle Jaws of Death, about killer ants. At the theater, while watching the previews, a horror movie called Frightmaster is coming soon and it's about things that crawl out of your nightmares and come to life. After watching the movie and going home, Kyle begins to feel and see killer ants everywhere. While in bed, killer ants crawl to him. Scared and shaky, the Frightmaster is in Kyle's head and says, "They're just figments of your imagination, like me. But, then, you always did have too much imagination."
[edit] 7. The Halloween Spirit
A bratty girl named Keesha is forced to take her little sister, Jonelle, with her on Halloween. They go to the park, when they're mom told them not to. Jonelle doesn't want to stay, while Keesha does. Jonelle runs back home to tell on Keesha. Keesha and her friends have their attention paid to a girl named Cassandra, who calls for a spirit to come. No one believes it, making Cassandra mad. Jonelle comes back to the park, and Keesha takes her home. Jonelle doesn't speak as if she doesn't exist, confusing Keesha. When they get home, Keesha sees Jonelle sitting at a table. The girl with Keesha reveals to be real witch who takes Keesha and blows her up.
[edit] 8. The Bald Mountain Monster
Three kids, Nick, Sarah, and Angel are on a trip with their parents to explore interesting mountains. The kids meet a man who tells a legend of a strange winged creature who flies to children and eats them. If anyone gets in the creature's shadow, bad luck comes to them. Sarah goes off into a cave and gets trapped. Nick goes after her and then they both end up stuck. They see the winged creature in there and are chased by it. Finally getting out of the cave, they take Nick's dad's camera tripod and use it as a lever to push boulders on the creature, scaring it away. They tell Angel and their parents what happened, but only Angel believes them, until the creature's shadow flies over everyone.
[edit] 9. Playland
Alec loves the amusement park, Playland. His favorite ride is the haunted house. When he makes a wish that Playland would never go away and that he could ride the huanted house again and again, it comes true. When riding the haunted house, he can't get out of the tram car and the ride goes on and on, never stopping. Just as he had wished for.
[edit] 10. Smoke
Katie's parents died in a house that was on fire. She lives with her grandparents. She asks her grandparents if she can go back to the house and find their ghosts, to say she loved them since the last thing she said to them was that she hated them, because they wouldn't let her spend the night at a friend's house. Her grandparents refuse. Katie then sneaks out of the house and goes to her old house. She finds her parent's ghost's and tells them she loves them. Her grandparents arrive, revealing they too are ghosts and so is Katie.
[edit] 11. Mrs. Moonlight (Senora Claro de Luna)
A spoiled Spanish girl named Maria Luisa is staying with her grandmother while her mother is on business. She breaks things and blames it on anything but herself, when she knows she did it. Her grandmother tells her if she continues to be bad, a spirit called Mrs. Moonlight will come and take her away, which is what she does with all bad children. Maria Luisa doesn't believe her, until she's actually taken away by Mrs. Moonlight.
[edit] 12. Hungry Ghosts
A boy named Michael and his uncle visit a whole bunch of paintings that were about Michael's ancestors who were tortured and starved to death because of the government. Michael then begins to feel their pain, literally. While on a boat, going home, Michael's soul flies out of his body and is replaced with his ancestor's, whose hunger is no more.
[edit] 13. Bakotahl
Marty and his friends Wayne, Mojo, and Connor chase an Indian[disambiguation needed] boy off a cliff. When the boy lands on the ground and dies, Marty tells his friend to ignore the situation. The boy's twin brother whispers the word "Bakotahl" to Marty. Bakotahl was a spirit that caused bad things to happen to people who did bad things. After school, and earthquake happens causing Wayne to fall off a cliff, dying. Mojo believes Bakotahl killed Wayne. Marty and Connor don't believe him. That night, Connor calls Marty telling him Mojo died in a sand storm when an RV crashed into the car he was in with his parents. Connor comes over to Marty's and they break into a fight, since Connor wanted to tell the truth about what they did to the boy. After the boys quit fighting, a flash flood occurs and kills them.
