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Shadow Meadow

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 5
Page count: 10
Categories: Ghosts, Scary

Author

Steve
Burt

Appeared in

Oddest Yet: Even More Stories to Chill the Heart

Story Summary

Ben and Jiminy decide to try a shortcut home which involves crossing a busy highway and cutting through a meadow reportedly haunted by shadows. Having made it across the highway with only a near miss from a speeding semi, they head into the meadow where they start to see shadows of animals ... but worse, when they look at each other they see their own colors fading ...