THE CREAKY STAIRS by Jared Rivet

Every neighborhood has one. A spooky place where kids dare each other to go - maybe it's a boarded-up house, where I grew up it was an abandoned funeral home (really), for Tommy and Danny it's an abandoned tenement building across the street. And oh do the rumors grow - the rumors about the old lady who used to live there and how everyone hated her. About how mean she was. About the horrific way she died...and even rumors of a curse. If you're a kid you either stay far, far away or - if you're like Tommy and Danny - you can't help but find out for yourself lest you be branded a chicken. Tommy and Danny are about to take the journey you never could, in the middle of the night the two are going to find out what's inside that building...and what's at the top of The Creaky Stairs...