In this entry from the thrilling short story anthology FaceOff, bestselling authors Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child along with R.L. Stine team up for the first time ever, pitting FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast against the most unusual villain heās ever facedāStineās classic creation: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy.
First introduced in R.L. Stineās 400 million-copy bestselling Goosebumps series, Slappy is a dummy carved from coffin wood who boasts enormous strength and a sarcastic, sadistic personality. In contrast, Agent Pendergast is an elegant, intelligent man who never lets himself be ruffled by the particulars of an investigation. Yet when these two meet for the first timeāat Stony Mountain SanatoriumāPendergast is quite clearly out of his element, and nothing is as it seemsā¦
For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven stories in FaceOff!