Chapter 5
The Addams Family theme song pumped out of the speakers as Io hung bats with glowing eyes from a tree. He was in the front yard, attempting to deck out Blackstone in the spookiest items he could find. By the time he was done, they would have a house worthy of a magazine spread in one of those Halloween craft issues. Pumpkins waited on the stoop for him to carve them into grimacing, growling, howling faces. With the bats in place, Io grabbed a stiff formed ghost and plunked it down amongst a grouping of gravestones with pun-laden names carved in them. The whole setup paled in comparison to the actual graveyard out back, the final resting place of Blackstone’s original owners.
“Now ain’t that just something,” a voice remarked.
Io jumped, whirling around to find an actual ghost,
