Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast

Douglas Preston · Lincoln Child · R.L. Stine

Sep 2014 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

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 he’s ever faced—Stine’s classic creation: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy.

First introduced in R.L. Stine’s 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 time—at Stony Mountain Sanatorium—Pendergast is quite clearly out of his element, and nothing is as it seems…

For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven stories in FaceOff!

Ratings and reviews

Disappointed, I've come to expect more. Thankfully it was only $.99.

Strange,! ! I love Agent Pendergast, started with Brimstone, this kinda missed the mark.

Excellent introduction and cliffhanger to another potentially exceptional book. Please turn this short story into either a complete book or an anthology.

About the author

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, coauthors of the famed Pendergast series, are also the authors of The Lost Island, Fever Dream, Cold Vengeance, and Gideon’s Sword. Preston’s acclaimed nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is being made into a movie starring George Clooney. Lincoln Child is a former book editor who has published four novels of his own, including the huge bestseller Deep Storm.

R.L. Stine is one of the bestselling children’s authors in history, with more than 400 million books sold to date. In 1986, he wrote his first teen horror novel, Blind Date, which became an instant bestseller. In 1989, Stine created the Fear Street series, one of the bestselling young adult book series in history, with 80 million copies sold worldwide. He is also the author of the bestselling children’s series Goosebumps, which began in 1992 and has sold 300 million copies around the world.