The Drowning Ghost

by Cade Merrill

Book Overview

Eileen drowned when a ghostly hand pulled her down into Tappy East Creek. Now, 175 years later, three people on a school camping trip mysteriously die near that same creek. A coincidence? Or does the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553493647
• ISBN13: 9780553493641
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Fantastic book & series! Why are they getting rare?

The 3red installment in Cade Merrill's Blair Witch Files. Suprisingly eerire. A high school girl named Cecilia and her boyfriend Mark,go on a camping trip along with 2 of there friends, two teachers, and 30 something seventh-graders. As time passes Cecilia's boyfriend and her teacher get very mean after falling into a creek. Cecilia begins to worry and afetr a while she finds both teachers gone and Mark acting very irritable. Wanting to get herself and the kids out of the woods she finds the school bus gone. Now Cecilia and her friends find themselfs in a race against time to get out of teh woods alive. Things get more horrifying each day- finds teachers finger nails and other teachers body. No one belives her. Mark finally tells the group the will walk out of the woods. But is he really leading them to civilization or deeper in the woods were an unknow evil lurks. Great ending. WHY ARE THE BLAIR WITCH FILES GETTING HARDER TO FIND. I WILL BE VERY SAD IF THEY GO OUT OF PRINT. Ther are not corny as some people say. Belive me I've read 4 books in this series and they were all grat. I suggest reading this trilling series- that I hope won't stop for a long time!

Another great Blair Witch Files book...

When Cade Merrill, seventeen year old owner of the website, theblairwitchfiles.com comes across a newspaper article dating from 1825 about the mysterious drowning of a young girl, he decides to investigate. Eileen Treacle was only ten years old when she drowned in `East Tappy Creek" and several witnesses testified that they saw a `bony white hand' reach out of the water to pull the girl in.When Cade posts a message on his website asking for information on the legend, he doesn't expect success. After wading through dozens of replies, he comes across an e-mail from Cecelia Northrupp, a girl who claims to have seen the ghost of Eileen Treacle. Without hesistation, Cade decides to check her story out and uncovers the story of three more mysterious deaths near the same creek.The story is narrated by Cecelia Northrup herself and involves a high school camping trip that takes place 174 years after the strange death of Eileen Treacle. Immediately, things start to go wrong: the weather is freezing, some of the kids become ill, and ghost of a little girl appears to one of the seventh graders. Cecelia is convinced that something is wrong and the behaviour of one of the teachers and her boyfriend Mark is soon putting everyone's life in danger. But what is causing these strange events to occur and how are they linked to the creek itself?This book was fast-paced, entertaining and fairly creepy. I think it was less `psychological' than the previous book in this series, "The Dark Room", but equally enjoyable. I have to say I like the way that nothing is ever proved in these books and that the reader is left to make up their own mind about the unexplained events that take place. Overall, five stars and I recommend it to any teen who likes horror stories.

An very good book

I recomend it if you are interested in reading more tales and myths about the Blair Witch. It is very, very good. It explains things that you don't get by watching the movies. I probably recomend buying the other books too if you want to have a clear understanding view of what's happening with the Blair Witch legend.

Provides yet another twist to the Blair Witch saga

2 teachers, 4 high-school seniors, and 30 7th-graders go camping near the creek where Eileen...was supposedly pulled under by the arm of what people believe is the Blair Witch. Bad things start to happen when two people fall into the creek, and come out with totally different personalities. Then all the children walk out of the cabin at different times, each found without a clue as to why they are doing--except that they want to play. This story implies that there might be more than one evil force. Ultimately, this is simply FRIDAY the 13TH: Part 6 with a better plot.

Creepy addition to the series.

Ten-year-old Eileen Treacle's young life ended tragically when she drowned under mysterious circumstances in the summer of 1825. 174 years later, a group of seventh-graders go camping near the very creek that little Eileen died in. Accompanying the campers are two teachers and four high school seniors. One of the seniors, Cecilia Northrup, is the narrator of the story. Cecilia only agreed to go on the camp-out because her boyfriend Mark, her best friend Jane, and Jane's boyfriend Noah were going. From the start, things go badly. One of the kids claims to have seen the ghost of a little girl in the woods near the campground. Several kids are injured, and weird things begin to happen at night. The personalities of Mark and one of the teachers, who both fell in the creek, change suddenly and drastically. Cecilia is frightened, but no one except for one little boy believes her when she claims something wrong is going on. It may be up to her to save her own life and the children's as well. This was a good read for teen horror fans, and you don't need to have seen the movie to understand it - or be creeped out by it!