All Chapters of Short Scary Stories: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Tammi Wilder was a nice girl, but not too bright. One day she got asked on a date by one guy she really liked,so on the day of the date she wanted to look pretty. The day came but Tammi never showed up. Days later her date decided to pay her a visit to find out why she'd stood him up. He went to her house, but there was no answer to his ringing on the bell. He went round the back of the house and looked in the kitchen window, only to see Tammi lying on the kitchen floor. The police reconstructed Tammi lying on the kitchen floor. The police reconstructed Tammi's last moments. The night of her date, she found her hair was still too wet to be combed, so an idea struck her. She would go to the kitchen, open the door of the microwave and falsely lock the door by pressing a knife up to the catch. That way she could keep the door open and dry her hair inside the oven. Doctors diagnosed death by BOILED BRAIN!  

In 1922,Robert Townsend went to a party with some of his friends. At that party he met the prettiest girl that he had ever seen. Millie had long brown hair and eyes like emeralds. He asked her to dance and she seemed pleased to accept. Later, he walked her home. It was raining, and she borrowed his coat. They kissed. The next day, he returned to the house for his jacket. A grey-haired woman answered. He asked after Millie,and the lady wept.'I'm sorry,'she said,'my daughter died a year ago today.'Robert gasped.'But I just saw her yesterday!'The lady said,'Go to the cemetery a mile down the road,and you'll find her there.' Robert found the cemetery. He searched for the girl's grave, and found one with her name on it. Lying there was his jacket. When he picked it up,a note fell to the ground. It read: I'M SORRY, MY LOVE.'  

In the mid-western states of America around a hundred years ago, two gentlemen were working in a town's small general store. A small frail woman dressed in grey entered the shop, picked up a glass container of milk and, without paying for it or even glancing at the gentlemen, walked out ... ... the men, surprised by the woman's thievery, hurried out of the store after her, but she had disappeared. A few days later, the incident occurred again, and a few weeks later, a third time. The men, slightly more prepared , followed the woman out of the store , down the town's main street and down a path that led to a cemetery neither of them knew existed. Suddenly, they heard a noise, which they identified as a baby's cry. It was coming from the under the ground in front of a gravestone marking the death of a mother and her baby who were buried together. Unsure of what else to do, the men quickly found shovels and dug up the coffin. The crying became  louder as they

A man and a woman happened to sit next to one another on a train. The woman took out a book and began reading. The train stopped at half a dozen stations, but she never looked up once. The man watched her for a while, then asked, "What are you Reading?""A ghost story,"she said. "Its very good. Very spooky."'"Do you believe in ghosts?" he asked."Yes, I do," she replied. "There are ghosts everywhere.""I don't believe in them," he said. "Its just a lot of superstition. In all my years, I've never seen a ghost, not one.""Haven't you?" the woman said, and vanished.  

Lisa's parents had gone to a party for the evening. And all poor Lisa had to do was stay home and watch her two little brothers. She was making pasta when the phone rang. Lisa answered. "I'm near," said a woman's voice. "Near where?" Lisa replied, but the other end was dead. A little shaken, Lisa checked on the kids and finished cooking. After dinner, she put the kids to bed, turned on the TV, and was flicking through the channels when the phone rang again ...She ran to the phone before it woke the kids. "I'm closer," said the woman on the other end. "Excuse me?"said Lisa. But again, silence. She called the operator. "I'm getting strange calls here and I was wondering if you can tell me where they came from?"she asked. "No," replied the operator, "but I can put a tap on your line and trace any further calls ..." Lisa woke up the boys. The phone rang. She told the kids to be quiet and answered