Goosebumps Revisited

"It is your contention, then, Mr. Stine, that your entire family was slaughtered--in the most depraved and gruesome manner imaginable--by none other than Slappy, a ventriloquist's dummy?" demanded the prosecutor, his tones resounding through the courtroom, ending at last in damning echoes.

R.L. Stine, an affable looking man--thick eyebrows, balding, venerably jowled--looked up, sadly, through large glasses at the prosecuting attorney, and spoke: "Yes. That's precisely what I'm saying."

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This post is an installment in a continuing series of content coordinated by theme or motif with posts from Enoch Allred of Chiltingham, John Allred of clol Town, Jon Fairbanks of Funkadelic Freestylings of Another Sort, Eli Z. McCormick and Miriam Allred of Modern Revelation!, John D. Moore of Whatnot Studios, Joseph Schlegel of Sour Mayonnaise, and Sven Patrick Svensson of Sadness? Euphoria?. This week's theme: 'Ventriloquism'.