Phantom Face

Well, my FEAR FABLE FANS, FEAR'S MORE I mean HERE'S MORE LURID-LORE heh-heh-heh! This tale takes a GHOSTLY-GANDER at a house in a NEIGH-BOO-HOOD, that is WELL-MOAN ABOUT hee-hee. With a REVOLTING-RESIDENT wishing to be called...

Yellow and orange leaves fell from the oak and maple trees in a neighborhood over in the small town of Friendship Corner, Illinois, back in October, 1967 one day. Kids were riding bicycles down the sidewalk on the right-hand-side and the two boys stopped their bikes in front of one of the homes. The two girls riding their bikes a few feet behind them stopped too and they all stared at the house together. "I hope Sally can come with us to pick out our Halloween outfits, Molly" one of the girls said to the second girl. "Yeah, Karen, me too" Molly replied to her. As Karen, Molly and the two boys stared at the home, a teenager walked passed one of the windows within it. They lit a cigarette and smoked it within the living-room and saw a young girl walk down the stairs then. "Where are you going, Sally?" the teen asked the girl. "With Molly, Karen, Sam and Kevin to pick out our costumes for Halloween Chase!" Sally answered him. "You little brat of a Sister. Always going somewhere when Mom and Dad our gone!" Chase said to her, meanly.

"They said it was okay" Sally told him. Chase blew cigarette smoke in her face, causing her to cough. "Yeah, Sally, but I get stuck watching you!" he screamed. He picked up a baseball bat then from on the couch. Meanwhile, as Karen walked up, to Sally's front porch, she heard Sally scream. "Did you har that, Kevin?" the boy on the bike in front of the others asked the second boy. "Yeah, Sam, it sounded like Sally!" Kevin said back to him. Within the living room, her brother's shadow on the wall kept swinging the shadow of the baseball bat, hitting something ten times. Karen rang the doorbell and Chase glanced out the window at her. The door opened and Chase screamed to Karen: "KAREN, HELP, A BURGLAR KILLED SALLY!!!!". That Spring, Kevin, Sam, Molly and Karen rode their bicycles passed Sally's old house, and Karen stopped, looking back at it then. Molly, Sam and Kevin stopped up, ahead and looked back at her. Sally's ghostly-face, a dead-white moved into one of the living-room-windows, having no eyes, just eerie black eye-sockets. Karen gasped in fear at it. Sally's ghostly-face moved away from the window.

"What's wrong Karen?" Sam called, asking. "I-I saw the ghostly-face of Sally in the window of her old house, Sam!!" she responded. "Oh, poor Sally. I wonder why she haunts her old house Kevin" Sam said to him. "They never found that burglar her Brother Chase told about. I would haunt my old house too if that sadly happened to me" Kevin answered. "Come on, Karen. I know it's hard being by her old house" Molly called to her. Karen caught up to Kevin, Sam and Molly on her bike and they rode off together. Chase parked a car in the driveway of his home suddenly, with Strawberry Alarm Clock singing "Incense And Peppermints" on the car radio. The ghostly-laughter of Sally was heard echoing within the darkened living room by the shadowy-stairs and Chase walked into the house. He turned on the living-room lamp and was holding a bottle of Jack Daniel's Whiskey. Chase went out, into his kitchen and the phantom of Sally materialized by the staircase. Her black ghostly-hair straight and long, her ghostly-eye-sockets staring into the light of the lamp, as her pale-white face smiled. Sally's phantom stood in her pink dress, with her skin a dead-white. As Chase swigged some of the whiskey from the bottle in the kitchen, his sister's laughter was heard suddenly, echoing. Chase nervously looked around and within the doorway between the kitchen and living room, stood the phantom of Sally. "I-I-I beat you to death with my baseball bat Sally!!" Chase said to her, in terror. "Phantom Face, Phantom Face, you Chase can call me Phantom Face!!" Sally's phantom told him, laughing eerily in her echoing-voice.

Phantom Face walked over to Chase in her pale-white ghostly-bare-feet, and grabbed a carving knife from the kitchen-island. Yellow slime oozed out of her ghostly-eye sockets then and she giggled in her eerie echoing-voice. Chase screamed, dropping his bottle of Jack Daniel's Whiskey on the floor, causing it to smash and spill. He ran passed the phantom of Sally and into the living room. Chase looked back to the doorway of the kitchen and saw that his sister's apparition was gone. He gasped and suddenly heard her eerie giggling echoing on the steps. Chase looked and saw Phantom Face standing on the stairs, this time she was transparent. Her eye sockets still oozed more yellow slime from them. Her brother screamed and she disappeared then. Chase ran up the steps, running into a bedroom upstairs. Out in the shadowy-hallway upstairs, the phantom of Phantom Face appeared and giggled in her echoing-voice, as she slowly moved to the bedroom where her brother ran into. "Hello, Friendship Corner Police Department!" a man's voice over the phone said as Chase held it within the bedroom. "Hello, yes, there's an intruder in my house here at 34 Harrison St. Please come quickly!" Chase responded on the phone, as the door of the bedroom creaked-open. Phantom Face stood in the doorway in her pink dress, stepping into the room as the man's voice asked Chase over the telephone: "what is your name please?". "Chase Douglas sir" he responded and Phantom Face stabbed him in his back from behind with the carving knife, causing him to gasp and fall over dead. Phantom Face picked up the receiver of the telephone, as the man's voice over it said, "hello? Mr. Douglas sir? Hello?". As yellow slime seaped out of her ghostly-eye-sockets, Sally giggled eerily on the phone in her echoing-voice.

What a PHONE-Y ENDING that was eh? Heh-Heh! But the phone call was NO LAUGHING MATTER, evening though Phantom Face was. She made her Brother quite a DEAD RINGER hee-hee-hee! Sooner or later, he had to PHANTOM FACE HER aha-ha-ha-ha!