Fullscream Bossfright - The Caller

                       

This year, I want to try something a little different. I managed to finish my collection of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to tell in the dark. and to celebrate that and the feelings that this book gave me as a child, I want to do some narrations from that book for this year's Fullscream Bossfright. 

The following story features a hysterically laughing man who terrorizes a family and their babysitter by calling them periodically throughout the night. After consulting the operator, the babysitter and the kids find to their own horror that he had been calling from an upstairs phone the whole time, and eventually the wild eyed, hysterical stranger comes stalking down the stairs and scaring them out of their own home! Terrifying, indeed. Of course, variations of this story also have been used many times in media, notably with the film "When a stranger calls" which was originally released in 1979 and was remade in 2006.

In the story "The babysitter", the caller would taunt the babysitter by asking her "did you check on the children?". The policeman, who traced the call, informs her that the call is coming from inside the house.  Realizing that the children are actually in danger, She bolts up the stairs and swings open her door to find them brutally slain. Upon seeing this, she breaks down into hysterics, unknowing that the killer is still in the house....

- I'll see you next Bossfright!