Authors: Christopher Pike
The Wishing Stone (9 page)
Sally glanced one last time at desolate Amacron 37 and turned up her nose.
“Yeah,” she said. “It sure beats this place.”
Little is known about Christopher Pike, although he is supposed to be a strange man. It is rumored that he was born in New York but grew up in Los Angeles. He has been seen in Santa Barbara lately, so he probably lives there now. But no one really knows what he looks like, or how old he is. It is possible that he is not a real person, but an eccentric creature visiting from another world. When he is not writing, he sits and stares at the walls of his huge haunted house. A short, ugly troll wanders around him in the dark and whispers scary stories in his ear.
Christopher Pike is one of this planet's best-selling authors of young adult fiction.
Books by Christopher Pike
Spooksville #1: The Secret Path
Spooksville #2: The Howling Ghost
Spooksville #3: The Haunted Cave
Spooksville #4: Aliens in the Sky
Spooksville #5: The Cold People
Spooksville #6: The Witch's Revenge
Spooksville #7: The Dark Corner
Spooksville #8: The Little People
Spooksville #9: The Wishing Stone
Spooksville #10: The Wicked Cat
Spooksville #11: The Deadly Past
Spooksville #12: The Hidden Beast
Spooksville #13: The Creature in the Teacher
Spooksville #14: The Evil House
Spooksville #15: Invasion of the No-Ones
Spooksville #16: Time Terror
Spooksville #17: The Thing in the Closet
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.
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Copyright © 1996 by Christopher Pike
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ISBN: 0-671-55068-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-4814-1085-4 (eBook)
First Minstrel printing June 1996
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SPOOKSVILLE is a trademark of Christopher Pike.
Cover art by Lee MacLeod
