HAUNTED: The Cursed Lake

By Mahtab Narsimhan

12-year-old Jonah and his mother have just reopened Camp Sunny Acres after a horrific tragedy drove the last owners away. They’re desperate to make it a success, but new camper, Dexter, won’t stop breaking the rules and doing his best to let everyone know how much he hates it there. To make matters worse, Jonah suspects that the mysterious disturbance in the lake might be a restless spirit.

Jonah has to consider the success of Camp Sunny Acres as well as the safety of the campers and himself, and they can hardly call it quits over a bad feeling. A counselor’s campfire story based on a Chinese myth where a drowned soul lies in wait for its next victim, sounds eerily similar to what’s going on at Sunny Acres.
But Jonah’s worst fears come to life during a freak storm when the malevolent ghost captures his mother. Can Jonah and his friends find a way to appease the spirit of the dead camper and rescue his mother—or is she doomed to replace the drowned boy in the cursed lake?

Eerie Tales from the East brings you scary stories from around the world with a contemporary twist. Each story in the series can be read as a standalone and highlights a myth, superstition, or ghost story from an Asian country, set amidst the complexities of the modern world. Ordinary characters must rise to extraordinary challenges or risk losing the ones they love in these chilling and fast-paced novels with heart for 8-12+ year old fans of Goosebumps, The Jumbies, and Paola Santiago and the River of Tears.