The Phantom on the Phone

And Other Scary Tales

Don't turn off the lights when listening to this collection of spine-chilling tales.

A strange, silent girl who only appears in phone pictures. A school prank with a Christmas elf that goes terribly wrong. A piece of chalk that draws frighteningly fast. A boy's bone-tingling encounter with the world's most awesome toothpaste!

©2015 Michael Dahl, Xavier Bonet (P)2017 Capstone Publishers, Inc.

Fun scary stories

This collection of scary stories was very reminiscent of the stories that I remember being told around the campfire as a kid, where the goal was to scare as many people as possible. Sometimes the stories started out obviously scary, while in other stories, they started out like a regular story that suddenly took a really scary turn.

Michael Dahl certainly has a way with storytelling, as each of these stories was wonderful. The narrators of the short stories, which vary from story to story, are listed as anonymous but do a wonderful job. They provide a wonderful amount of tension to the stories, with a great delivery of that "gotcha" moment.