"...A black figure with scaly skin and bulging eyes was crawling on the walls. It's head turned around too face me, but the body didn't even rotate with it. It put one of it's long fingers over it's mouth that couldn't be seen, like it was telling me to be quite. This just made me scream even more. It looked like I was infuriating it. "Help!" I shrieked, my body freezing and not daring to move. Suddenly, the thing came at me... I felt it on me, though my eyes weren't open. I felt paralyzed. I felt it ripping away something on me." ~*~ A young girl, struggling to adjust to her new but old house, is told to explore the house more than she already has. She grows to actually like the house, and decided to explore the one room she hasn't explored yet: The BASEMENT She looks around, and sees normal things. But then she sees someone, or something, lurking in the dark shadows, and she wishes she would have never screamed: "HELP!" (BOOK ONE OF THE "SILENT " SERIES)