wait till helen comes by mary downing hahn

Guaranteed to make you shiver as well as laugh uneasily as you look over your shoulder.ģ. They are filled with plenty of flesh-torn skeletons, vengeful ghosts in search of their murderers, and a variety of tales taken from urban legends and American folklore. “ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” includes two dozen scary stories plus songs and wonderfully creepy illustrations by Stephen Gammell, all certain to delight the lover of the written horror genre. The plot thickens with classic bone-chillers such as a forest with mysterious ruins, a creepy pond, and hazy faces at the windows.Ģ. Soon Heather becomes inexplicably obsessed with one tombstone, befriending a ghost named Helen. Michael and Molly not only resent the move, but detest living with their rude and nasty stepsister Heather as well. In “ Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story”, Michael and Molly have to move to a new home which was once an old church, complete with a nearby graveyard. Make these authors part of your child’s Halloween and you combine the fun of trick- or-treating with a good book to enhance the spooky factor to the max!ġ. Almost everyone can recall the guilty pleasures of ghost stories in the dark, be it around campfires, at sleepovers, or from the sheer horror of that terrifying book that you’re reading when you’re alone in the house (which you simply cannot put down). Since long before the modern-day tradition of letting your mom dress you up to invade the local neighborhoods in search of treats, tales of ghosts, specters, and creatures inhabiting dimensions of the macabre have drawn children like the proverbial Pied Piper (with a little Freddie Kruger thrown in). Halloween is a holiday that offers kids not only the goodies, but the deliciousness of thrills and chills as well. Not for myself, but for Heather.By Sarah Danielson, for The Children’s Book Review

I don't want to believe in ghosts, but I've followed Heather into the graveyard and watched her talk to Helen. Now her ghost returns to lure children into the pond.to drown. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home-a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over a hundred years ago. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her.our 'poor stepsister,' who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. It's possibly more of a young adult book because it is, simply, very scary! And so well written that it leaves most children's/YA books in the dust-or should I say in the grave? Here's the blurb:Heather is such a whiny little brat. As fantastic as those are, they fall a bit short of Wait Till Helen Comes. I fell in love with Mary Downing Hahn in the 90s, with Doll in the Garden and Time for Andrew.

Wait till helen comes by mary downing hahn