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Moments after a child on his death bed passes away, he is visited by a mysterious “crooked man” who sends him back to the land of the living. Upon returning, the young boy realizes that his mother was taken in his place, but that’s only the beginning of the Crooked Man’s sinister plan.
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The Spooky Chronicles
First book in the series.
Moments after a child on his death bed passes away, he is visited by a mysterious “crooked man” who sends him back to the land of the living. Upon returning, the young boy realizes that his mother was taken in his place, but that’s only the beginning of the Crooked Man’s sinister plan.
Meet Spooky, a dead little boy continuing to grow up. He goes to school, likes taking pictures in cemeteries, and doesn’t breathe. Accidentally starting the zombie apocalypse is his biggest fear, but it’s not his biggest problem.
The Spooky Chronicles is a book series about a child who comes back to life as a zombie but is still getting older. Having already overcome personal tragedy in his life, his unique condition makes him aware of (and draws him into) a secret, paranormal underworld he never asked to be a part of (but still thinks is pretty cool).
Excerpt
Keeper of the Half-finished Scrapbook
Once upon a time, as they say, there was a pale little boy with straight hair and dark eyes. He always seemed smaller than those his own age and wasn’t very athletic. Not usually one for conversation, he paid close attention to everything around him and offered only the smallest of smiles as something in return.
At the age of six, the pale little boy became ill, and although he was already small and thin, he grew smaller and thinner still. His skin turned a pallid gray, but the smile never left his face and his mother never left his side. When he turned seven, the tumor in his chest finally overtook his heart, and he died.
It is whispered that everyone dies alone. Yet the pale little boy wasn’t alone when he died, and on the other side, he met a crooked man with a crooked stick who pointed at the dead little boy with a crooked finger. The dead little boy then opened his eyes only to find those of his mother closed. Somehow he knew that his mother had taken his place and that the Crooked Man had caused it; what he didn’t know was why.
The dead little boy’s father took him to doctors, but none could find an explanation. The tumor was still there, and worse yet, the heart it destroyed still didn’t work. But the dead little boy lived, and after a time, it became obvious to everyone that he was still growing up. Neither ill nor incapable, the dead little boy asked his father to return to school, and with no actual reason not to, his father agreed. Life continued for the dead little boy, even though there was no life within him.
Before the dead little boy’s mother died, his mother worked on a family scrapbook filled with pictures and memories. After the funeral, the dead little boy’s father closed the book and put it away, but the dead little boy always knew where to find it. While his father no longer took pictures to add to the half-finished scrapbook, the dead little boy continued to add scraps of his own, waiting for the day when his father would look at the book again and take more pictures to finish it.
His parents named him Spencer. His friends called him Spooky.
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