Winter Book: Scary Stories Treasury

I have been reading a complete collection of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, although these are just short stories it really is a great read. It's something for when you're bored, don't really have a good attention span, or maybe just don't have as much time to read an actual book where you have to keep up with the characters to understand what is going on. I'll be doing one blog for one short story.

This is one one of my favorites because of, I guess the story. It's titled, "Clinkity-Clink." It is about an old women who passes away, she has no family or friends. Her neighbors were caring enough to get a gravedigger for her, they have a coffin made, everything they had taken care of for her. The only faulty thing about this, though, is that her eyes were wide open. So, to solve this problem, the neighbors found two silver dollar on her dresser and set them on her eyes to keep them closed. It worked, so the next day a preacher came to say some prayers before her burial. The gravedigger decided to take her silver dollars, not knowing of why they were on her eyelids. Obviously, her eyes opened. He was startled, but still decided to take them anyway. After he did that however, her ghosts haunted him for taking her money. She does various other things as an attempt to get her money back, and make him realize what he did was wrong of him. 

I think why I like this story so much is probably because it's sort of like karma in a way. It's almost as if it's teaching you a lesson: Do not take anything, from the dead or living, it'll come back to haunt you. Well, really not just taking something, doing anything with severe consequences.

As weird as it sounds, I think this little story is cute.