Moonlight Secrets by R.L. Stine

plaque?” Shark asked.
    Galen nodded. “I found out the truth,” he said. He cringed. I think it was painful to talk with those swollen lips. “And I know it’s for real, man. All the weird things that have been going down . . . Candy did them all.”
    I rolled my eyes. “Galen, how many painkillers did they give you at the hospital?”
    Again, he didn’t laugh. “It’s true. Listen to me.” He climbed off the bed and started shuffling through some papers on his desk.
    â€œI found this Web site,” he said. “It’s about legends and stories from the early days of Shadyside.”
    Galen studied one of the pages. “It’s about Fear Street. All about how terrifying things happened there. And about the Fear family and how weird and evil they were.”
    He handed me a sheet of paper. It had a black-and-white drawing of a young woman on it.
    â€œCheck it out. Know who that is?” Galen tapped his finger on the woman’s face. “Angelica Fear,” he said. “She was some kinda witch, remember? We learned about her ages ago.”
    Shark grabbed the drawing from me and studied it. “Yeah. It’s Angelica Fear. So what?”
    â€œCheck out what she’s wearing,” Galen said. He cringed again and raised a hand to his swollen mouth.
    Shark and I both gazed at the drawing. I recognized it before Shark. “Candy’s pendant!” I exclaimed.
    Shark squinted at it. “Yeah. It’s that same pendant Candy wears all the time. Angelica Fear is wearing it.”
    â€œThe Web site has a whole page about it,” Galen said. He shoved more pages into my hands. “Check it out, man. It’s called an amulet. It’s totally evil. The amulet has evil powers. It can be used to cast spells on people and stuff like that.”
    Shark and I gazed at the drawing.
    â€œThe article says it’s silver with sapphire jewels on it. And look at the words on the back of the amulet,” Galen said. “ Dominatio per malum. It’s Latin. My mom told me what it means. Power through evil. ”
    My mind was whirring. I remembered Candy sitting in Nights with her hand wrapped around that pendant. And I remembered that big, evil grin on her face.
    â€œGet it?” Galen demanded. “Candy hasAngelica Fear’s amulet. And she’s using it against us.”
    â€œThe cockroaches . . .” Shark muttered, staring down at the drawing of the amulet. “The blood from your ears . . .”
    â€œMy car!” I said. “Shark—that’s why my car went flying into the river.”
    Shark leapt to his feet. “She . . . she really did try to kill us!”
    A chill ran down my back.
    I didn’t want to believe it. But here was the proof.
    Candy was evil. Candy wanted to kill me.
    I scanned the pages from the Web site. It was all there. Angelica Fear had used the power of the amulet to destroy her enemies . . . destroy them in ugly, painful ways.
    I turned to Shark, the papers trembling in my hand. “Shark, what are we going to do?” I asked in a whisper.
    Shark’s eyes narrowed. “We’re going to get that amulet,” he said softly.

23
    â€œCandy said her parents were going away,” Shark said. “Remember? She was inviting kids to come over and party?”
    â€œBut no one wanted to party with her,” I told Nikki. “Shark and I went by her house around nine, and there was no one there. We saw her through the window, sitting in her living room by herself.”
    It was a little after three in the morning, and we were at Nights. Nikki, Shark, Lewis, and I huddled at the back booth sipping beers, making a plan.
    â€œSo why didn’t you go see her?” Lewis asked. “You had your perfect chance.”
    â€œNo way,” Shark said, spinning his beer bottle between his hands. “We have to take her by