![]() Yet with a fanciful and morbid father like hers, it’s no wonder Martha feels so uncertain about everything. In other words, she’s a typical teenager. She is anxious, moody, and most of all, insecure. ![]() Martha, on the other hand, is wary - she describes the house as something out of a dream, “not quite real, not quite safe….”Īs her behavior early on would suggest, Martha is a handful. Stevenson loves the place he’s a writer fascinated by macabre things. Making the transition even more uncomfortable is the fact that her stepmother Sally bought them a creepy old house outside of town. The Chicago-raised teen is not the least bit happy about the sudden move to the middle of nowhere, or her having to get used to a new family. Martha Stevenson’s life is turned upside down when her father first elopes, then relocates his daughter to a small town called Bedford. As everyone else around her is doubtful of her misgivings and claims, or they’re simply too unavailable to help, the main character counts down the days until something inevitably dreadful happens on Halloween. The first of these seasonal offerings, Richie Tankersley Cusick ’s 1989 book Trick or Treat, centers around a teenager who’s deathly afraid of her own home. ![]() ![]() The Point Horror line made every day feel like Halloween, but the Scholastic series had only a few books specifically set around the October holiday. ![]()
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