I'm almost halfway through The Grin of the Dark but none-other-than, Mr. Ramsey Campbell, and I have just read one of my all time favorite chapters in any novel. The title of the chapter is It Stirs. It takes place with the main character and his elderly parents inside a delapitated, long closed up theater at the dead end of lonely road. The discriptions are wonderful with the white mold growing on the walls, and the old time posters with the faces of the performers scratched off but a grinning mouth full of teeth has been drawn in with a sharpie. It is at night of course so you can only see by flashlight, which inevitably goes out at a bad time. It appears as though someone has broken into the theater before them and fashioned large mounds of snow (it is winter and there is a hole in the roof) into snowmen observers in some of the theater seats and there appears to be more on stage. Or are they something more than just snowmen? The flashlight doesn't allow them to check it out much closer than that. This chapter is very well written and very creepy. I loved it. What are some of the other spin chilling momments in a story or novel that you all out there can think of?
