1. The hole in the floor
By Amy
As a girl slept she had the most wonderful dream. It was
about her flying through the clouds and finding a wonderful
island made of chocolate ice cream. It carried on for hours on
end. She was woken at three o’clock in the morning by a
bang in the kitchen .She got out of bed and tiptoed
downstairs, making sure not to wake her family.
When the girl got downstairs no one was there and dawn
was breaking. She walked forwards and circled the table.
CRASH! She fell down a large hole in the floor .A group of
what she thought were people came towards her. “HELP ME,
PLEASE.” She shouted. They came closer and closer but they
were not people. They were white and see through. They
quickly and swiftly surrounded her.
The girl started to run. She ran straight threw one of them. A
shiver ran down her spine. She raced on her heart thumping
in fear. She could not get out. She was starting to get hungry.
She wished it was a dream but it was no dream. After a few
days running she fell to the floor gasping for air .She was so
hungry and thirsty her eyes slowly started to close.

2. Emily and her dead grandma
By Honor
Alone one dark winter’s night, Emily was sleeping cosy under
her bed covers, when she heard a banging on the door. She
got out of bed and shivered to the door. Emily opened the
door and stepped onto the front porch, looking around. But
nothing was there…
Emily strolled around her little cottage to see if anything was
there. She got back to her old ragged door and she was
certain nothing was there. Suddenly she heard a noise. She
thought it was a ghost but she knew ghosts didn’t exist.
BANG!!! The door slammed behind her. Emily turned around
and started thumping on the door. “Let me in, let me in!” but
it was no good. Finally she had an idea. She went around her
house and looked through the window, but the curtains were
shut. Then she heard the same noise that she had already
heard. Now she was positive it was a ghost.
She sat down on the dirty porch. When dawn was just
breaking the door slowly creaked open. She cheered, “YES!”
She walked in and suddenly, she saw her dead great

3. grandma. What was she doing there? As quiet as a mouse
she said, “hello.” But her great grandma just stared at her.
Emily sat down while her grandma was still staring. Emily
said, “Please leave.” Her grandma exclaimed in a ghostly
voice, “NO.” Emily felt uncomfortable. Her grandma said,
“come with me!” Emily shouted, “NO!”
THE END

4. An iceberg in space
By Isaac
“Finished!” yelled Kevin triumphantly, as he soldered the last two
wires together. Eddie gasped sarcastically. They were on a space-
station and Kevin had just finished building a spacecraft of Eddie’s
design. It looked a bit like a satellite, but could seat a man inside it. It
was fitted with a laser that cooled down anything it came into
contact with. In this case, the Earth’s atmosphere.
“Wow, that’s really amazing!” scoffed Eddie. Then, adopting a more
serious manner he frowned at his colleague sternly. “Are you sure
you sure you have done everything right? Because if you haven’t, we
could turn the Earth into an ice cube.” The plan was to send the
shuttle into an orbit of the Earth and fire the laser at the planet to
cool the atmosphere which had been heated so much by global
warming.
“Oh, stop worrying, everything will be fine,” replied Kevin. “What
could go wrong?” But he said this mainly to himself, as he was
beginning to have doubts himself.
The G-force of the take-off nearly made Simon throw up this foul
breakfast of space food. He clutched his stomach and groaned. He
was in the shuttle Kevin had made which had just been launched.
Even all that training hadn’t made him used to the take-offs. The
small spacecraft accelerated towards Earth.
Simon’s radio blared loudly as its owner listened carefully.

5. The vampire house
By Jess
One afternoon in a small house by a river, four foster sisters
carried their suitcases upstairs. “Race you there!” Angel
called, breaking into a run. She won the race, obviously. The
oldest girls, Angel, who was 15, and Amelia, who was 14,
claimed the largest room in the house. 13-year-old Alice and
twelve year old Aelita, the two more sensible sisters,
reluctantly managed to fit all their belongings in the tiny box
room.
They settled into their rooms. Even though it was small,
Aelita fit in quite well, as she was only twelve. Alice was small
for a thirteen year old so she just about fit. Angel squeezed in
to the room and smirked at them. “I don’t know how you’ll
survive living in this room,” she told them, flipping her hair
and laughing. “But anyway, I heard there’s a haunted house
on the hill…”
Aelita stopped and the CDs dropped out of her hands, and
sprawled out on the floor. Alice knocked some books off her
shelf, but none of them cared. A haunted house?
Alice broke the silence by saying, “Ghosts aren’t real, Angel. I
thought you knew that.”
Aelita let out a sigh of relief.
“No, it’s in the newspaper, look.” Angel waved the
newspaper in front of their faces. Five 17-year-olds enter
house on hill and have never been seen again. They gasped in
shock. “M-Maybe…” Alice stuttered, but nothing sprang to

6. mind. There was no other way. They lived downhill from a
haunted house.
“Doesn’t mean there are ghosts,” Aelita said. “It could be
something else. Maybe they got trapped in the basement.”
Angel shook her head. “Let’s go. Get your jacket,” she told
them both.
Aelita frowned. “Why are we going if they were never seen
again?”
Angel smiled mysteriously and left the room. Aelita sighed
and put on her jacket. Alice did the same. They left out the
front door after informing Amy, their foster mother, that
they were going to the park.
When the girls left the house, Amy’s eyes flashed red and she
disappeared.
They trudged up the hill and saw the sinister house, which
they had never been near. Cobwebs covered the front door,
but Alice didn’t mind cobwebs and wiped them all away.
Angel knocked on the door one, two, three times. The door
slowly creaked open, revealing a long dull corridor.
“Come on!” Amelia said, now taking lead.
Alice saw a portrait, and tears filled her eyes. Aelita realized it
looked exactly like her mum, who died before Alice was put
in a children’s home.
Aelita comforted Alice and they carried on. They heard
footsteps, thudding gently upstairs.

7. “Maybe it’s those people who got lost in here!” Angel
exclaimed. “We could win pots of money!”
There was a sinister laugh, and the creaking of a floorboard.
“They’re trying to scare us!” Amelia added.
There was a box, stuffed to the brim with jewels and gold
coins. They looked around. “Look! A real diamond, and real
gold! An emerald!” Angel and Amelia were chanting, enjoying
searching the box.
“Let’s go,” Alice suggested.
“No! Look, here, you can have the sapphire if you want.
Aelita, you have this…um, this garnet.” Angel took the
diamond and Amelia took the gold. They both took an
emerald each.
“Rubies!” Angel said.
After they had finished with the box, the footsteps grew
louder, and louder, and louder…
A long claw reached out and then suddenly disappeared into
thin air.
Aelita and Alice screamed. “Chill!” Angel said. “Probably just
some of the effects in this place. Obviously, they’re trying to
scare us. The laugh, the claw, and they tempted us with the
jewels.”
The girls went upstairs. There was a large room, and the door
was locked.
“Anyway, I was just thinking, as they’re in the house right
now, we could just stop joking around with them and just
tempt them in here.” It was the voice of Amy!

8. “Slow and steady, Amy. Now, transform!” A deafening growl
filled the eerie palace.
“Perfect!” the voice said again. “Now, let’s open the door.”
The door swung open. The girls, who were hidden, ducked
down even more.
“I can sense them, here, hiding!” the voice said again. “Come
on…”
Angel jumped out, followed by Amelia. The other two
climbed out of the darkness as well.
When the man jumped forward, he dragged his sharp nails
along each of them. Then Amy grabbed Alice and locked her
in the room.
The girls screamed and ran, down the stairs, to the front
door.
“Quick, the window!” Aelita yelled, still feeling really worried
about Alice.
They each punched the window very hard, and it smashed
open. They clambered out one by one, and bolted down the
hill, occasionally falling over and rolling down even further.
Finally they got home. They rang the police, and told them
that their foster mother had left and they needed a new one.
They were assigned to different foster homes. But they knew
that they would never go near a haunted house again!
The End

9. Lights Out
By Sam W
“Three cheers for the Astronauts!” As they entered the very top of the rocket,
the brave pioneers, John, Adam and Robinson waved back to their families
below. As the engine ignited, they set of on their perhaps one way mission.
After twenty years of training this day had finally come! The G-Force from the
take-off made them a bit giddy but that was the last thing on their mind. They
smiled at each other then gazed out of the window. It was spectacular. They
had two months’ worth of flight before they reached the stranded satellite but
they never got bored. It was the best two months of their lives and their last.
Finally, when they reached satellite it was nothing like they expected it to be. A
report from Houston came in: “Houston to copper Head 11 copy, there is an
unidentified object west of your pursuit , do not make contact I repeat do not
make contact.” Adam reported back: “Copper Head 11 copy can`t get a
positive ID on the abound so I’m gonna send Robinson out for an
investigation”. Robinson climbed out of the craft and approached the orb
attached to the satellite. He touched it. A surge of electricity shot through him
he was dead in an instant. Adam shut the door as fast as he could. He hadn’t
trained for this but being a clever man he had a good idea of what to do.
He called for John who came straight to the co pilot seat. Then they sealed the
windows so they couldn’t see out. There was a banging out side the oxygen
tank split and communication went down. John thought the workers weren’t
stranded they were dead and this how they died.
The banging out side out side suddenly stopped. Now they were in a broken
space ship millions of miles away from Earth, with only enough oxygen for one
person to get home. The once enthusiastic men now had no hope at all.

10. Megan and the cottage of darkness
By Kate onslow
Every day Megan took her dog, who was a black
Labrador named Lilly, for a walk. Lilly and Megan loved
walking together. Megan always walked in a field
called flower field. Flower field had sunflowers,
buttercups and every flower you could think of! But
then suddenly one afternoon out of nowhere a gloomy
shadow appeared in the middle of the colourful field…
Finally as the shadow started to get clearer, Megan
could see it was an old cottage. The cottage had
brown, mouldy walls and a black and yellow striped
door. On that door it said KEEP OUT! Megan looked at
it for a while then suddenly CREAK! The door stared to
open. Lilly ran in. “Lilly, NO”! But it was too late!
She muttered to herself, “I have to go in, I just have
to.” After a long decision she crept in as quite as a
mouse.

11. It was pitch black, she tried shouting “Lilly,” but she
could not hear a reply. After 15 minutes of looking she
thought to herself, “It is too late, I have to go back and
give up.”
But she couldn’t find her way back because it was pitch
black. She was lost! When she trying to find her way
back the walls were starting to crave in. It was so tight
that she could hardly breathe. Then she found
something on the wall it read REDRUM WON!

12. Nameless
By Ruth
“Seth! You have mail!” Seth bounded down the stairs
and snatched up the letter.
“It’s from Fred.” He muttered, recognising his friend’s
untidy writing. “Dear Seth,” He read. “Please come to
my party at the old theatre. 1.00, Friday 13th.”
The next day, a slightly anxious Seth walked to the old
disused theatre. I’m not scared. Who believes in
ghosts? He reassured himself over and over again, but
Seth still shuddered at the thought of going inside that
spooky place. The door was painted yellow with
balloons on the knocker, even so, Seth’s spine pickled
with fear as he opened the door…
Expecting a bright hallway, Seth jumped back in fear
when he found himself at the end of a long, dark,
shadowy corridor. He tried to back out, but the door

13. had silently shut itself. He hit his head on the hard
wood, and collapsed onto the dusty floor.
A sudden scream roused his consciousness. “RUN,
BOY! RUN! NAMLESS IS COMING! RUN!” A tall girl was
running towards him, her matted blonde hair flying.
She was wearing a torn, tattered, blue hoodie and
black trousers. She pulled him through a door into
another long hall. A rusty key lay on the floor. “Take
the key, and lock me in.” The girl instructed, pointing to
a barred door. Seth followed her confusing orders,
then carried on running. He heard noises behind him.
First, a sinister scuttling followed his feet, a hissing
slithered across the stone floor, then a huge beating of
wings echoed down the endless tunnel. Huge talons
snatched him up into the air. Suddenly, he
remembered. He remembered the newspaper
headlines: Children missing! Nameless captures
innocent children! Of course! Nameless was the
famous shape shifter! “Help!” He cried. But nothing
came but a hoarse rasp, “This one looks a weakling.
Chuck him in the cage! He may not be strong, but he’ll
make a good meal.” Human hands carried him back to
the cage where the girl was. Seth was thrown inside.
The key clicked in the lock.

14. “Hello boy. I’m Sapphire. You are?” Said the girl. Seth
blushed. “Err…Seth.”
“Nameless is pretty creepy, huh?” Sapphire chatted.
She seemed perfectly happy in this spidery prison. “So
you got caught. Unlucky you. You’ll be first on his menu
with that!” She prodded Seth’s rather large belly.
Echoing footsteps silenced them. “Nameless is hungry.
Yes very hungry. One midget won’t be enough today,
Grit-face. Get the tall one and the fat one, fast.” Hissed
nameless. An ugly man with a stitched up eye opened
the door of the cage. Seth’s heart pounded as so called
Grit-face lead them through winding corridors to a
large blood-stained hall. Grit-face chained Seth by his
wrists to the high ceiling, and left him dangling there.
He then began to prepare the meal. Sapphire screamed
in agony as her blue eyes were gouged out of their
sockets. “Oh shut up, will you!?” He growled, and cut
her tongue out. Seth adverted his eyes from the gory
scene to a stone table. A piece of paper was lying on
top. He strained against his chains, and if he looked
carefully enough, he could just make out To Keith in his
own handwriting. “Oh no.”

15. Rising of the darkness
By Jake
Dom and Zoe , who were brother and sister , were playing football by a river.
Dom was just about to score when Zoe stole the ball of him and scored in his
net. He ran over to the ball and wacked it as hard as he could with all his anger.
It went right of the grass and onto the river path. “Go and get it then.” Said
Zoe.
“ All right then.” Groaned Dom. As he was walking down to the river path he
noticed a sign saying WARNING SLIPPERY EDGE.
Zoe started to walk to walk to Dom to see why he’d stopped. As she got closer
she saw the sign and said “ I would not get the ball if I were you it’s pretty
close to the edge.”
“But that’s my new ball.” Said Dom.
“Come on I’ll be fine.”
“ But Dom you can’t swim and how will I save you?”
Dom started to walk towards the ball getting closer and closer to the ball. But
as he reached out he slipped on some wet moss and SPLASH!!! He fell in.
Luckily there was some rope on the side of the wall so he grabbed it but it was
very slippery. He could just about hang on. Zoe started to shout for help but
nobody was there. All she could see was an old crooked house she started
running towards it. She knocked on the door but there was no answer. She sat
on the door step crying. Meanwhile, Dom could feel the currents on his legs
and his hands start to slip.
The door started to creak open and Zoe stopped crying. She ran into the old
house hoping someone would be there. But there was nothing. She started to
feel a tingling sensation down her spine. She was seeing things too. All of a
sudden she started to feel hands clutching her red cheeks tighter and tighter.
The last thing Dom heard was a scream and it was such a frightening scream
that his body went limp and he let go of the rope.

16. Trapped By Ross
John was walking home and suddenly he heard his
name .After a few minutes John crept towards the
abandon hotel. He tiptoed inside .There was a creak;
something was there!
What could it be? Blinking in shock it was gone. As he
quietly went up the dusty stairs, something smashed
behind. As quick as a flash he looked behind him. There
was a cat on a stand with a smashed vase beneath it.
So he carried on walking and met a corridor. It felt like
the walls were hugging him .At the end of the corridor
he saw something on the wall It said “REDRUM WON!”.
As soon as he said it a door opened behind him . After
he walked in the dark room the door slammed behind
him. What could he do? Something charged at him!
He woke up in a dark room which looked like a
dungeon. It said on the wall “TRAPPED FOREVER”.

17. Rover Red Rum
by Jamie M
Splash. The ball hit the water but before it could be washed
out Rover quick as a flash pulled it back to Jamie. “Well done
boy,” said
Jamie. Rover wagged his tail in delight. “See if you can get
this boy.” Jamie then hurled the ball over some slimy rocks
.Rover couldn’t get it because it was too far out so he
followed it not his is off the ball. Suddenly he banged into a
castle. He saw the ball carry on its journey through the gates
and Rover dashed into the castle crash the door SLAMMED
shut
.Jamie came breathless shouting when he caught his breath
back “rover here boy “he said softly. Then he had a shock! He
saw a sign saying red rum. He heard a deafening
Howl. What could it be? He thought. So Rover
Carefully not to trigger anything he heard a voice but tried to
control himself and carry on .Rover walked through another
narrow path and the hard, cold and wooden floor and made
a very creepy sound. But suddenly he saw the tennis ball roll
ahead he thought the tennis ball was trying to lead him
somewhere.
So he left the tennis is ball. Then he heard a dripping sound
“drip” ”drip” ”drip”. He saw a skeleton and took it out, as

18. quick as lightening. The he saw a door and peered through
the key hole and opened the door luckily there was nothing
behind the door
Then he came to another door and opened and there was
Jamie and the skeleton queen
So Rover barked and Jamie shouted. There was a pause and
the queen hit Jamie and then Rover bit the queen’s neck and
she fell to peace’s and the Rover bit Jamie free and they got
out the castle and went back to their game of fetch but this
time further away from the castle .
The end
Notice:
Rover then went on to win dog of
the year.
Thank you for reading hope you
enjoyed it (:
By Jamie. M

20. Scar face lair
By Grace
Knock, knock. Knock, knock. Max shivered
under his duvet. The knocking came again,
this time louder. Knock, knock. Knock,
knock. He swore he saw the curtains rustle
and move. Silently, he reached a pale hand
to his light. Flick. The room lit up, a beacon
in the dark. He breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, he saw a small orb on his window
sill. What was it? Slowly and carefully, he
walked over to the small sphere, its shiny
surface reflecting off the lamplight like a
diamond. He reached a trembling hand to
it, his fingers gently colliding with the
smooth surface.
Thud. Max could feel cold ground under his
aching body. Silence. Silence had inked its
death over everything. He was in a corridor,
but where? Then he saw a small gap in the
wall. Squeezing through the gap, the black
enveloped him. At the end of this
claustrophobic journey, he entered a tiny
hall. It was filled with colourful lights.

21. Hypnotised, Max stared, transfixed. As he
stared at the lights, every single lantern in
the room lit up.
Momentarily distracted, he stumbled
backwards just as a dark shadow emerged
from the shadows. It was a woman. Bearing
a flaming torch, she swiped at Max’s head.
Max ducked and screamed in horror as a
long flame licked out and set his hair alight.
He raced out of the room into the corridor
and up a staircase. Seeing a window and
pelting towards it, he realised he was
trapped. He tried to reach the door but he
was too late. The figure had reached the
door and was edging towards him. It pulled
back the hood that had hid its face so well
and revealed pus filled blisters; chunks of
flesh missing from its nose, and the stench
of rotting meat, filling the already-putrid
air. The scarred faced monster cornered
him by the stained window. There was a
large red mark on it that looked a bit like…
but he didn’t want to think about that.

22. He realised that was what would happen to
him if he didn’t escape now. The monster
was almost upon him but he still had some
time. Searching the gloomy room for a
weapon, he spotted an abandoned curtain
chord on one of the tattered blinds.
Reaching out, he grabbed it and held it in a
defensive line, aiming for the monsters
neck. The monster, confident of victory,
drew close, until Max could feel its breath
on his cheek. Suddenly, he pulled the chord
tight around the neck of the monster, but it
swatted it away like a fly.
“You’re trapped.” rattled the monster.
Max knew that too but he also knew that
there was another way out. To embrace
death as an old friend. Live afterlife in
harmony with the world. Taking his final
breath, he said,
“There’s always a way out.” and plummeted
through the window, a smile on his bleeding
and scarred face…
The knocking had gained another victim.

24. DARK SHADOWS…
by Teri
“Demi,” called her teacher. Demi got up and slowly slumped over to her
teacher, her tie swinging. “So, why haven’t you been paying attention this
class? You’re 13 years old, in year 9! You really need to concentrate this year!
Sit next to Hermione tomorrow, that way if you talk, it’ll be about maths, not
football!”
A very loud bell stopped the conversation.
“Right children, HOMETIME! Don’t forget your homework!” Then she turned
back to Demi. Demi could not hear properly because of the noise outside in the
cloakroom. She just about made out the words “Be…you…in…peril.” but Demi
did not think anything of it.
When Demi got out of the classroom, she found out that her friends were
waiting for her.
“Come on Demi. Do you want to play dares in the park?” her friend Ruth
asked. Grace and Amy both said “YES! Come on…” at the same time. Ruth then
mumbled “Ok…” but it was to take her mind of what she had just heard. Ruth
heard everything that their teacher had said but Ruth thought it was
impossible. Was it important or impossible? Surely not…
Demi pulled her heavy ruck-sack down from her locker by its strap. She
rummaged around in it and two minutes later she pulled out her phone. She
checked the time, it was half past three. Her mum would have expected her
home by then. She text her mum saying:
Mum, can I please go to the park with Ruth, Grace and Amy?
She clicked send and hoped for the best. Another two minutes later, she
noticed a message. Was it from her mother? It didn’t sound like it. It said:

25. Remember what you have just heard! Stick to it. Otherwise, the consequences
could be fatal! But yes…
Demi did a quick beckoning look to her friends. They came over and read it.
Demi thought Ruth looked scared the most but none of the others looked that
worried.
Demi and the others walked to the park, Ruth glancing backwards every now
and then. They found a soft spot on the grass and sat down.
About 1 hour later, Amy dared Demi to go into the cave across the road. They
all got out their school torches and walked over to the cave.
They walked on and Amy spotted blackness ahead through the glass gap in the
iron door. Ruth went back so she was safe.They went through the door and
before they could shut it, it had slammed. They walked on, wondering if there
was a way out. Behind them they heard footsteps running towards them,
belonging to a dark shadowy figure. The footsteps outside faded away but then
they heard a voice saying, “Did you not read what the text said?” Grace and
Amy looked round for the voice but did not find where it came from.
A pearly white figure came into view and Demi gasped in horror for what was
in front of her was a ghost belonging to her mother.
15 years later…
Demi was still trapped in one room with the stench of 2 rotting bodies, the
bodies belonged to Grace and Amy who had died almost instantly when they
had seen Demi’s ghostly mother. Demi had no-one for company apart from her
mother once a month.

26. The eyes of the night
By Adam
“Hey pass it to me, pass it to me!” screamed Sam. Jake was
determined to score, so with a fierce shot, the ball blasted
like a bullet past the keeper.
“I’ll get the b…?” Sam stopped mid-sentence as he realized
where the ball had landed.
The ball had landed in a small dark garden. It was covered by
a sinister shadow being cast by a large wooden building
somewhat like a haunted house. They climbed over the fence
to get the ball.
“Let’s look inside!” suggested Jake as he picked up the ball.
“I’m not so sure we should be wandering around random
people’s houses,” answered a worried Sam.
“Chicken,” replied Jake. He knocked on the door. There was
no reply. Just as they were about to give up the door opened
with a slight creak…
Cautiously, they crept inside. The door slammed shut behind
them with a BANG which echoed through the air. Suddenly,
there was silence. “AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Both
boys looked up. The noise was coming from upstairs. Quiet as
mice, they tip-toed upstairs. The floorboards creaking with
every step. Once they reached the top it was pitch black.

27. Without warning, there was a flash of light. Two red eyes
glowed brightly in the darkness. They glared at Jake and Sam.
Suddenly it started to move. Getting bigger and bigger and
closer and closer. And then, they strangely vanished into thin
air. The boys were confused. In the distance, Sam could make
out writing. He nudged Jake to get his attention.
They both stared at it. It was written in thick, blood red ink. It
read REDRUM WON. ”What’s that supposed to mean” asked
a puzzled Jake. They continued onwards. As they were
walking though the blackness they could hear faint footsteps.
It gradually got louder.

28. THE GIRL IN A DOLL
By Shona
“Honor, I dare you to act like a monkey.” Shona laughed and then
Honor was acting like a monkey. “Oohh ohh ahh ahhh oohh ohh ahh
ahh,” said Honor. “Okay, now my turn. I dare you to um…… run as
fast as a cheetah in to that old crooked toy shop and stay in there for
1 minute and run back as fast as you can but it has to be the one with
the doll’s house in it.” And then Shona replied, “No it is too hot and
sunny to be inside.” And then Honor shouted, “Come on, don’t be
such a chicken!” So then Shona mumbled, “Even though the doll’s
house is creepy I’ll do it!”
“Yes! Because I was just about to double dare you.”
Shona crept closer and closer to the door…was she sure she was
making the right decision? 10 seconds later…BOOM!!! She was in
and the door slammed shut! All of a sudden a devil popped up.
“Hello,” it said. “Let me guess, you’re a devil?” questioned Shona.
“AHHHHH!!!”
“Why are you waving a big wand at me?” asked Shona.
The devil replied, “I will now turn you into …a…um…a pizza? Nah.
What about a book? Nah. Aha. How about a diddy doll… Yes, you will
be turned into a diddy doll.”
The devil said, “Abracadabra turn a girl into a doll.” Shona’s last
words were, “HELP ME HONOR!!!” But it was too late. Shona had
been turned into a small doll.

29. The old part of town.
By Daisy and Izzy
Lottie was just walking down a small empty street in
the old a part of town. She was looking after her
toddler brother Tommy. “Come on Tommy teas
nearly ready’’
She looked behind her. He was nowhere in sight she
felt sick with worry. Where could he be?
Suddenly she heard a bell sound. It was a from an
old rundown gift shop. As she approached the shop
door she peered at the sign. The lettering had faded
as the shop got older and older. Dust blinded her
as it shot out the door.
As the dust settled she heard crying. She looked
around the room. She saw a poster. Lottie read it
out loud she said “red rum won’’
She didn’t know what it meant but she had heard of
it before. The cupboard started to wobble it fell on
her. She managed to escape but the end of her
dress got caught. She heard footsteps. She looked

30. up. A strange shadow ran across the area to the
staff only room. The crying got louder.
She tugged and tugged at her dress. Eventually it
came free. Lottie ran to the staff room. She tried to
open the door but it was locked. She kicked the
door and turned around. Then the door opened
slowly. In the darkness she saw her brother sitting
on a small red chair at the large room. He had arms
folded and a pouty look on his face. Lottie ran
towards him and went to hug him. But when the tip
of her pale finger touched Tommy It scolded her.
She took her hand away and gave it a good shake.
His skin started to melt like butter on toast. It was
dripping off the chair onto the cold floor wooden
floor. As quick as a flash she dashed out of the
shop back home.
“Mum Mum” exclaimed Lottie “what is it” said mum
Tommy went missing and and and” “what do you
mean he’s at the table having tea”. She looked at the
table. Tommy was there. He had a pouty look on his
face. From that day on she dared to go near that
part of town again.

31. The old toy shop
By Matthew
“Fetch!” shouted Jimmy. Joey zoomed off but for some
reason, left the stick. Jimmy started to worry where Joey was
so he ran up and saw a big pile of sticks. Next to them Jimmy
saw dog tracks heading to the road…
“No!” shouted Jimmy. Joey on the other side of the road but
almost got hit by a truck, Joey ran into an old toy shop
because he could see a dog toy. Jimmy went in and saw Joey
playing with the dog toy. Everything in the shop was old and
dusty except for a small brown wooden horse. There was a
sign above saying Redrum won. “What should I do?”
wondered Jimmy, “should I take the horse or leave it?”
Jimmy decided to take the horse but then suddenly he could
hear something moving behind him. Firstly he just ignored it,
but then he looked around and when he looked back the toys
where moving closer, closer and closer and before he knew
it, he was on the floor and the last thing that he saw was the
sign that said: Redrum won but it now said: NOW
MURDER!!!!

32. The woods…by Dom
“Remember Jake don’t walk Buster in the woods,” said my
mum.
“Why not?” I answered back.
“Bec-“
I didn’t stay to hear the answer. I had already started to walk
onwards. As I saw the opening of the woods I shivered in the
snow. I noticed a sign that I couldn’t really read because it
was faded but I could recognise some letters and they spelt:
MONDRE SCEME DOM’L CROSS! What did that mean? As I
trudged on, still trying to work out what the sign meant, I
didn’t notice how far I had gone. Suddenly I saw something
pop up from behind a tree and vanish again.
I heard some footsteps behind me and looked over my
shoulder. I could see a tall slender man with black eyes, a
stitched up mouth and blood stained dungarees. My heart
was thumping and my brow was wet. I ran with Buster and at
that moment the sign made sense. It meant MURDER SCENE
DON’T CROSS!
I saw Buster run full pelt into the dark part of the woods so I
followed thinking that I could lose this maniac that was
chasing me. I ran down a hill thinking that he would lose sight

33. of me, I jumped into a bush and then hid behind a giant oak
tree. The murderer slowed down to a walking pace and I
could see the sunlight reflect off his cleanly shaven head.
He sped up again when he heard a dog bark. That must have
been Buster. When I had lost sight of him my breath came
back. I felt tired and giddy but I just shuffled my way back. I
then realised I had gone even further into the woods instead
of going out of them.
I saw a shadow creeping up behind me so I ran for my life
again and I dived into what seemed to be a fox hole but I was
soon proved wrong. It was a muddy tunnel and as I crawled
forward the tunnel widened and the stench of rotten flesh
grew stronger. I saw Buster DEAD!
I wept and wept. The tunnel seemed to squeeze me like a
bear. Shadows took me from behind and I squeezed my eyes
shut. I got dragged away into the darkness all because I didn’t
listen…

34. Tom and the terror!
By Aidan
One winter’s night Tom woke to wind rushing round his room. The cold wind
formed into a ghostly figure. Tom shrank back as the ghost screamed.” Do not
enter the house on the hill. Do not release it!” Then all went quiet and he
faded back to sleep. Tom woke from his sleep. That was a strange dream he
thought. He whispered to himself. Or was it real?
That morning as he went for a walk he walked past the house on the hill. He
thought he saw someone in the house on the hill so he started the trudge to
the house. As he walked to the door it swung open. That was strange he
thought to himself.
Just as he stepped inside the door slammed shut and a suit of armour fell over
blocking his exit, so he carried on. He crept into a huge hall and a bar of steel
fell down in the door ways.
As he pulled with all his might on the bars the ghost appeared.” It’s all over
Tom run all you like you will never escape it!!” The ghost boomed. Tom ran as
fast as he could.
The floor behind him was being ripped down.” JOIN US JOIN US!!!” The ghost
screamed. The floor beneath him suddenly fell in and he fell in to a fiery abyss
never to be seen again. But even to this day they say you can sometimes hear a
sudden snap and the terrified screams of poor old Tom.

35. Fred
By George Harrison
“Fred dead?” The dark alley was filled with posters looming over like haunting
shadows. Newspapers with pictures of the droned boy littered the cobbled
pavement. Dark windows followed the man up the alley. He was not convinced
his son was dead.
5 minutes later he was standing on the edge of lake. The black water lapped
against the cold banks. SPLASH! He was in .the cold water suddenly embraced
him. He could hold his breath for minutes. Was it long enough? He dived down.
The bottom of the lake was sandy and he could hardly see. Where was the body?
OWCH! He stubbed his toe on something. Peering through the murk he could see
a trapdoor. He opened it and went inside…
The water level in the room dropped after the trapdoor had shut. He looked
around him. The room wasn’t acutely a room it was a long corridor with dull grey
bars on the right hand side. “This is where my son is,” he said aloud.
There was something in one of the cells. Cautiously he crept forward. Slowly,
slowly the truth was uncovered. Rotten flesh was hanging off bones. Suddenly a
figure appeared. “My son,” Fred’s dad cried.
“Redrum,” he replied
“What,”
“Redrum,” he said again
The water level rose. He ran to the trapdoor but the water was rising too quickly.
Now he realised what redrum meant. It spelt backwards
He died a miserable death.

37. Trapped in black
By Rebecca
“Lara will you bring the clean washing into the cottage please?” Lara’s mother shouted.
“Ok mum” Lara answered.
After bringing the washing in, Lara peered through the kitchen window and watched the
delicate trees, that had big bushy leaves, sway from side to side in the gentle summer’s
breeze. But then she spotted a black moon…
The sun was glazing through the window. Suddenly, in the blink of an eye, it became pitch
black.
“What’s going on?” Lara whispered.
“I don’t know” exclaimed Lara’s mum.
Lara stumbled to the draw and grabbed a torch.
“What are you doing?” Lara’s mum asked.
“I am gonna find out what’s going on” Lara declared.
She flicked the torched on and slowly tip toed outside.
As Lara carefully tip toed through the forest, she remembered the black moon. “What did
that mean?” she thought.
There was silence. Then a voice. Lara turned back but nothing was there. As quite as a
mouse Lara moved on. A few minutes later, Lara felt that something or someone was
following her. She felt as though the trees were ganging up on her…
Suddenly, Lara saw a distant figure following her. She ran like the wind jumping over all the
obstacles but the figure was faster! It kept getting closer and closer and closer. Till suddenly
it was nearly on Lara’s back. Lara lost her focus and tripped over a log. She landed in a deep
hole that was covered up by leaves. In the 10 foot hole was a sign that had a black moon
and it red …
TRAPPED!
Finally she knew what it meant but was left there to die there and never seen again.