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Marnie and I laughed. We’d been having good, scary fun all week in HorrorLand. Especially since our parents let us go off on our own most of the time.
Some of the rides were terrifying. And we both screamed our heads off in Werewolf Village. The half-human, half-wolf creatures were so real! Were they men wearing hairy costumes? The way they growled and snapped their pointed teeth, you’d swear you were staring at the real thing!
And another of our favorite places was The Game Preserve. Miles and miles of video games. Of course, Marnie had to play until she beat me at every game.
And now here we were, in the third row of the Haunted Theater, waiting for the show to start. In dripping green letters, a sign over the stage read:GHOST TOWN CLOWN SHOW.
Storm sounds poured out of the loudspeakers. Lightning flashed. Thunder boomed.
And I gasped as someone grabbed my shoulder and squeezed it hard.
“Hey!” I stared up into the face of a grinning clown standing in the aisle. He leaned over me and squeezed my shoulder again.
The clown’s face was caked in white makeup. His painted grin was crooked and smeared. He had a red bulb for a nose. A red-and-blue ruffled collar around his neck.
And as he leaned over me, I saw a hatchet buried deep in the top of his bald head. The blade was halfway in his skull. The handle poked up at an angle. Painted blood trickled down both sides of his face.
“Hiya, kid,” he growled in a hoarse voice. “Let me introduce myself to ya. I’m Murder the Clown.”
My mouth hung open. I wanted to say something, but I was too startled.
His breath smelled like onions. He brought his face down close to mine. And I could see that his eyes were totally bloodshot. And there were cracks all over his white makeup.
“Hey, kid — know why they call me Murder the Clown?” he growled.
“Because you have a hatchet in your head?” I answered.
His eyes bulged in shock. “I have a what?” he cried. “You’re joking!”
Of course, he was being funny. So I laughed.
But he squeezed my arm and jerked me to my feet. “Come on, kid. Enough of this. You’re outta here.” He began to pull me to the stage.
I tried to pull back, but he was very strong. “Huh? What did I do?” I cried. “Hey — let go! Where are you taking me?”
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