Babysitter Bloodbath YA Novel

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**Babysitter Bloodbath Young Adult Novel** is an official 2020 novelization of the 2013 survival horror game of the same name by Puppet Combo. It was written by Regina Watts and is the first installment of the VHS Terror series. It is available on amazon and on Puppet Combo store.

## Synopsis

You've played the game, now read the book! The first novelization in Puppet Combo's VHS Terrors Series: Babysitter Bloodbath, puts you right in the middle of a classic 80s SLASHER!

Sarah has been feeling happy in her quiet Washington suburb and tonight is a big chance for her: A lengthy babysitting gig and a chance to be alone with her new hunky guy Jack. With any luck this’ll shape up to be a great night for her--- unfortunately that luck has already run out.

A brutal atrocity happened 22 years ago in the very same neighborhood, completely forgotten by this small town, but not forgotten by the monster who committed it. Neokalus Burr will be violently released from his long stay in Monroe State Hospital… and Sarah will finally get to meet the long-forgotten horror of her town’s past.

## Plot

In 1960, the small town of River Park, WA, is shaken by a gruesome murder case, when local resident Neoklaus Burr slaughters his entire family for inexplicable reasons. He is committed to Monroe State Hospital, where he remains locked away in the recesses of the ward for the criminally insane in a vegetative state for the coming decades.

One October night in 1982, Nurse Trixie, having grown sympathetic to Burr, the sole exception to the asylum's recently implemented rehabilitation programs, decides to take it upon herself to help him make the first steps to give him a chance at eventually reintegrating into society, leaving the side of her assigned guard and releasing Burr to take him out for a stroll in the yard. Burr responds by crushing Trixie's skull, does the same to her guardian and takes his service weapon before starting a rampage at the sanitarium, which ends with countless orderlies dead, the warden's office being set on fire and Burr on the run.

The next day, a curfew is issued for Monroe and the surrounding area, as Burr had not been recaptured yet. Despite this, neighbourhood babysitter Sarah has plans to spent the night watching over the Johnson household while the parents are gone to get the funds for a motorcycle. Hanging out in the mall shortly before her gig starts, she manages to get the phone number of a boy she likes, Jack and is driven home by her friend Jill. Unbeknownst to the blissfully ignorant community, Burr had returned to River Park and already claimed the lives of two residents by this point, and was about to add to the count.

Sarah arrives by the Johnsons, intending to cash out on their previously missed payments, but the parents once again tell her to wait until they return. She learns the layout of the house after rummaging for the TV remote, keeping Billy occupied by allowing him to prepare his own cereal in the kitchen. This leads to him spilling the milk, which Sarah begrudingly cleans up, when a call reaches the landline. Over the phone, Burr mumbles an incoherent, but unmistakenly threatening message directed at the home's occupants, which Sarah first believes to be a prank call by Jill, before being told otherwise in a follow-up call.

Burr was calling from the Hugo residence, who he had taken captive after sneaking through their sliding door, killing their son and tying the remaining couple, Anthony and Erica, up in chairs in their bedroom. When Erica's sister arrives to check up on the Hugos, she is stabbed in the back, with Anthony getting the same treatment to the eye. Resigned, Erica accepts her fate, but Burr abruptly lays down the knife and leaves, allowing her, revitalized with determination, to cut the rope and flee the room, only to have Burr take a hold of her neck, realizing he had wanted to see her hanging on to life while he murdered her.

On his way to his next victims' home, Burr is spotted by Vernon Brown, a self-proclaimed vigilante and former Green Beret, and his dog Titus. Instinctively terrified, Titus breaks free of his leash at the sight of Burr, before the latter savages Vernon with a flashlight and leaves him to bleed out, narrowly avoiding a police cruiser leaving the site of his previous massacre. This prompts him to return to the home, knowing the understaffed cops, being on high alert, would respond to all calls and leave crime scenes unattended. Once there he jacks a TV crew van, runs over its cameraman, before tailing and finally goring its reporter.

Sarah, still shaken after the call, decides to sent Billy to bed and then first call Jill, then Jack, over to keep her company under the guise of getting drunk with the Johnsons' stash of liquor. During her search for the key, to the liquor cabinet she finds a hiden crawlspace containing a clown mask and a knife covered in a dark rust, which Jill later identifies as blood, also informing her that the house had previously belonged to the fugitive. With the Burr murders had been solved and the items now only serving as a potential hazard for Billy, Sarah and Jill bag their findings and go out to throw them into the trash, where they get jumpscared by Jack. The three marvel over the contents of the trash bag, not knowing that Burr was eavesdropping on them after just arriving in the van. Sarah wakes up Billy again when she finds that they are locked out, forcing her to put Billy to sleep once again, this time confiding eachother in their fears.

Sarah goes to get drinks for her friends, but hears the gate in the backyard swinging open and after being pressured by the girls, Jack volunteers to check it out. Alerted by his screaming seconds later, the girls find Jack's cut in half body in the darkness. Sarah disgustedly pulls out a screwdriver from his upper torso, running for the door as the pair see Burr, masked and knife in hand, striding in their direction. They once again call for Billy to open up, lying that the Boogeyman was coming to spare him the trauma of knowing a convicted murderer was going after them, instructing him to hide in the crawlspace, but not before receiving the answer to where his father keeps the key for his guns: In the cellar. With the power cut, Jill pushes Sarah down a laundry chute when Burr corners them. In the basement, Sarah finds the key and a pair of bolt cutter and narrowly avoids Burr, who begins to chase her upstairs, only losing him in the walk-through closet in Billy's room.

Sarah hears Jill's muffled whimpers in the master bedroom, finding her with multiple stab wounds to the stomach, but still miraculously alive after her encounter with Burr. After opening the cabinet, Sarah grabs a pistol and has Jill help her check the gun for loaded rounds, of which there were none. Sarah leaves her with the pliers in case Burr comes back while Jill tells her to grab the keys for her car at the entrance. Burr finds Sarah as she heads for the staircase, ducks into the room with the glass liquor cabinet and manages to push it down on Burr as he enters, incapacitating him. He momentarily gets a hold of her ankle as Sarah tries to leave, but breaking free from his grasp, she gets Billy out of his hiding place, snatches Jill's purse with the keys and enters her car with him. Burr had sabotaged the engine before going in, however, and when he lurches towards them, Sarah distracts him just long enough so Billy can speed past him into the front door and hide in the garage, before distracting him by throwing the keys and running back in as well, dead-bolting the door.

Sarah, knowing the Johnson car has the key in the ignition, but no gas, heads upstairs to retrieve the bolt cutters from Jill to open the lock on the shed in the backyard and tries to carry her to the garage, only for Burr to ambush them by the bedroom door, having broken back in through a kitchen window. She barrels past him, but Jill forces her to leave her by the base of the stairs to buy Sarah time. Entering the shed, she finds not only a full jerry can, but also an axe and some bullets. Burr again approaches and manages to cut Sarah's shoulder, but is shot twice in the chest by her, stunning him long enough for her to flee back into the home, allbeit without the fuel, and patch herself up in the bathroom. When Burr intrudes, Sarah smashes the small shower window open and crawls through, breaking his nose with a kick as he tries to pull her back in.

From the garden, she goes back for the gas can and as she opens the garage door, Burr catches her and pushes her down to the floor. Sarah drops the gun and struggles to keep his knife from plunging down, even after hitting him in the already fractured nose once more and is saved only by Jill, somehow having survived even the second brush with Burr, shooting her killer in the back. Jill dies of blood loss in a final act of defiance, refusing to slow down Sarah in her escape and enraged at the death of her best friend, she buries the hatchet... into Burr's back. She then activates the garage door serenely fills up the tank of the car, even as Burr rises back up, simply tossing the canister in his direction, getting into the car and cranking up the radio, much to Billy's confusion. Burr makes one final stand, literally, as he positions himself in the middle of the driveway, only for Sarah to hit the gas and mow him down onto the lawn, then driving off into the blaring lights of the police.

While paramedics tend to her, Sarah is awkwardly talked to by Lt. Breaker, who, in her words, was still able to upset her with his generic, disconnected praise of her supposed bravery, as she continues to be more preoccupied with the fact that her friends died tonight than any sort of heroism attributed to her. When the Johnsons arrive to reunite with Billy, Sarah sternly asks for her fee, which they fumblingly hand over, in addition to her previously omitted pays, as well as a much deserved bonus. Billy gives Sarah a hug, which is reciporated by her, and apologizes for being mean earlier this evening, calling her the "coolest, best babysitter ever". At last, Lt. Breaker breaks the news to Sarah, that they were unable to find Burr's body, though he presumes he couldn't have gone far, multiple cuts, gunshots and axe in the back and all, an assumption Sarah heavily doubts. Breaker assures her that they'll catch him soon enough and that she should first worry about getting medical attention. As she is driven off to the hospital, Sarah is left with a feeling of uneasiness, which is unlikely to subside soon, knowing that if Burr were to strike again, she'd be the first to find out.

## Characters

* Sarah
* Jill
* Billy Johnson
* Neoklaus Burr
* Jack
* Mark Johnson
* Linda Johnson
* Pamela Burr
* Ginny Burr
* Tommy Burr
* Erica Hugo
* Anthony Hugo
* Catherine
* Vernon Brown
* Mrs. Brown
* Chip Winston
* Nurse Trixie
* Lieutenant Breaker
* Aaron Parsons
* Titus
* Mr. Thornburg

## Trivia

* This is the first novelization in Puppet Combo's upcoming VHS Terror series.
* The novel makes several references to 80s themed pop culture, such as essayist and author Ken Kesey, known for writing the famed novel *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*, *Men at Work*'s hit song *Who Can It Be Now?*, *Mirage* and *Rumors* by *Fleetwood Mac* and Romero's *Dawn of the Living Dead* the sequel to the original *Night of the Living Dead*.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Babysitter-Bloodbath-VHS-Terrors-Book-ebook/dp/B08KQ38X91/
2. ↑ https://puppetcombo.com/store/