rl stine the scarecrow walks at midnight

She thinks the more likely solution is that Stanley's son, nicknamed Sticks, is trying to play a prank on them. Jodie isn't convinced that the scarecrows are coming to life. When Jodie tries to point out the scarecrow to Stanley, it is nowhere to be seen, and Stanley unexpectedly runs away. After a while, she becomes certain that the figure is a scarecrow. Behind a tree, Jodie can see a figure peering out at her. She steps in a clump of weeds, and accidentally scares herself by assuming it is the hand of a scarecrow lying in the water. When the group gets to the creek, Jodie can't shake her fear of the scarecrows. Before Stanley even allows the children to begin, he demands that they walk around the barn three times, which his superstition book has instructed him to do for good luck. The following day, Stanley, Jodie, and Mark go out fishing. She can't even ask her grandparents because their bedroom's door is closed. She can't tell if they are being moved by the wind or if they're somehow moving on their own. Jodie sees the scarecrows writhing and moving on their stakes. During the night, she looks out of her windows at the scarecrows in the field below. The next morning, the sibling's wake up and discover that their grandmother has not made her signature pancakes.ĭisappointed at her grandparent's behavior, Jodie goes to her room. However, when the kids try to get Grandpa Kurt to tell them a story, he ignores their request and goes to bed. Grandpa Kurt used to tell amazingly scary stories, and Grandma Miriam used to make amazing pancakes. When Jodie arrives at her grandparents house, she begins noticing subtle things wrong with their behavior. Stanley claims that he made the scarecrows, and he mutters that “The scarecrow walks at midnight”. While being driven to her grandparent's farm, Jodie notices that her grandparents have replaced their old scarecrow with multiple new scarecrows.

For instance, he carries around a book of superstitions that he follows devoutly. Stanley is a middle aged man and nice, but he is also very strange.

Grandpa Kurt and Grandma Miriam have sent one of their farmhands, Stanley, to pick up Jodie and Mark from the train station. The farm is located in the countryside, near a small town. Jodie and her brother, Mark, are sent to spend a month with their grandparents on their farm. Then one night Jodie sees something really odd. And the single scarecrow has been replaced by twelve evil-looking ones. But this summer the farm has really changed.

And Grandma's chocolate chip pancakes are the best. Still, Grandpa tells great scary stories. Okay, so it's not the most exciting place in the world. Jodie loves visiting her grandparents' farm. 10.1 References in other Goosebumps media.

Rl stine the scarecrow walks at midnight