“Whoa! What? How the—”
“Is something wrong, Emma?” Mr. McCarthy asked, eyebrows wrinkled with mild concern.
“No. Nothing,” Emma muttered, her heart racing. “Just getting into the assignment.”
“All right. Keep your thoughts to the page, then, okay?” he said with a smile.
Sam kept her eyes on Emma. “What’s up?” she mouthed.
“Nothing,” Emma said again, and looked back at the journal.
Right under where she had written Life is so unfair!, in a scratchy scrawl that was much cooler than Emma’s own handwriting, a reply had appeared:
Unfair, you say?
A familiar shiver went up Emma’s spine. The kind that comes when she’s reading something scary. The feeling usually comes during the first few pages, where everything seems so “normal,” but in the pit of her belly she knows something dreadful is about to happen… and keep happening.
Where’d that writing come from? she thought.
Emma shut and rubbed her eyes, fully expecting that when she opened them, the extra words would have disappeared. But when she peeked back at the page, there was even more strange, scratchy writing.
The Scaremaster doesn’t want you to have a boring weekend. You started the story, and now I will finish it. My way!
“Augh!” Emma jumped up from her desk, knocking over her chair. Lightning fast, she slammed the journal shut and threw it into her backpack.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Epigraph
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Epilogue
Copyright
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
Text written by Stephanie Peters
Cover illustration by Scott Brundage
TALES FROM THE SCAREMASTER and THESE SCARY STORIES WRITE THEMSELVES are trademarks of Hachette Book Group.
Cover design by Christina Quintero
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First ebook edition: September 2016
ISBN 978-0-316-31667-5
E3-20160804-JV-PC