Being stuck in a dead-end town really wasn't teenaged Sylvie's worst nightmare. When Sylvie Morgan's parents travel to Africa to study insects, she is left with relatives in the Midwest for a summer of endless boredom and babysitting. Sylvie's Uncle Toby tells a horrifying tale around a campfire of a destructive ghost that terrorizes Effingham County every 17 years, but she thinks it's not as terrible as not having phone service. An axe wielding neighbor and a polydactyl cat may soon make her a believer in this town's legendary ghost. The rural legendary monster that now seeks her as she faces and fights the terror of the entire town. Genre/Categories: Horror, campfire ghost story, stories with urban legend (or in this case rural legend)

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