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The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight

Stine, R L
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horror children's horror past tense first POV ~99 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense creepy paranoid

A propulsive and dark horror. Expect minimal worldbuilding, spare, direct prose. Action-forward. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 20
sparsedense
Pacing 85
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 15
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 30
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 70
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 40%
seriouscomedic
Romance 0%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count24,831
Page count~99 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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