Hey everyone!
I don't know if this is the proper place to post this, but I'm trying really hard to find this book and, for once, Google is not being very helpful.
It's a children's book of scary stories. I can't remember the title or author, but I have a pretty good memory of what the cover looked like: It was of a boy under the covers, reading a book with a flashlight with a scared or surprised look on his face. Looming behind him, on top of the covers, is a HUGE green monster, with his arms out and over the boy. The kid is busy reading but seems oblivious to the monster. The title is in big loud letters, most likely in yellow. The entire cover is rather vivid.
This book was checked out from the library by my older sister when I was between 8 and 10 years old. So that makes it between 1994-1996, although it could have been written before then.
There is one short story in there I remember. A baby is left on the doorstep of a family and the note attached to him says his name is "Dum Pling" but they call him "Dumpling" because the letter is badly spelled. Turns out he's an alien baby and soon his alien family comes back to take him home. It has a humorous moment because the baby's name is actually "Dum" which means "prince" in the alien language.
Don't quote me on this, but I also think there was a "bloody Mary" type story there too, where there were kids who were daring each other to recite "bloody Mary" three times in the dark and the creepy stuff starts happening.
Any help on this would be so appreciated! Thank you!!!
I don't know if this is the proper place to post this, but I'm trying really hard to find this book and, for once, Google is not being very helpful.
It's a children's book of scary stories. I can't remember the title or author, but I have a pretty good memory of what the cover looked like: It was of a boy under the covers, reading a book with a flashlight with a scared or surprised look on his face. Looming behind him, on top of the covers, is a HUGE green monster, with his arms out and over the boy. The kid is busy reading but seems oblivious to the monster. The title is in big loud letters, most likely in yellow. The entire cover is rather vivid.
This book was checked out from the library by my older sister when I was between 8 and 10 years old. So that makes it between 1994-1996, although it could have been written before then.
There is one short story in there I remember. A baby is left on the doorstep of a family and the note attached to him says his name is "Dum Pling" but they call him "Dumpling" because the letter is badly spelled. Turns out he's an alien baby and soon his alien family comes back to take him home. It has a humorous moment because the baby's name is actually "Dum" which means "prince" in the alien language.
Don't quote me on this, but I also think there was a "bloody Mary" type story there too, where there were kids who were daring each other to recite "bloody Mary" three times in the dark and the creepy stuff starts happening.
Any help on this would be so appreciated! Thank you!!!
