Chicken Skin Series - Ghost Street Ghost Story. Devil Mask (2)

Author: R.L. Stine
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: In The Fear Street Files, twelve-year-old Ellen White and her best friend Maddie are huge fans of horror movies. They especially love the Fear Street series, knowing the characters and plots inside out. In Fear Street, there are all kinds of terrifying monsters, like the Toadman, the Wolf-Crab, the Electric Eel Woman, the Mad Meat Grinder, and more. Ellen and Maddie are very curious and long to have the chance to visit this dreamlike movie studio. Finally, their chance comes when the trolley they're on gets stuck in a cave in the Land of Reptiles. A swarm of giant mantises starts attacking them. "Oh my god, this isn't a movie—it's real!" Ellen and Maddie struggle to escape the cave and end up at a cemetery, where suddenly many green hands reach out from the ground and grab them.
In The Devil's Mask II, sixth-grader Steve Boswell gets punished by his gym teacher for pulling pranks, forced to train the first-grade soccer team every day after school. This "teacher" is made fun of and tormented by his "students"—they even made a cement soccer ball (painted in black and white) for him to kick. Steve swears revenge. Halloween is approaching, and Steve remembers the mask Whitney wore last Halloween. Ugly and terrifying, yet so cool. After some effort, Steve manages to get a mask from that same store—a scary one. He can't wait to see the kids scream and scatter when they see it. With a grin, Steve imagines them running in fear.
But when Steve puts on the mask, he can't take it off. And he really turns into an old man—wild hair, wrinkled face, spiders crawling in his ears, aching back and shoulders, weak and exhausted. What on earth is going on?