I suppose the proper way to start an introduction is with an introduction, so . . . Hello! My name is Derek the Ghost. What’s yours? I know you probably didn’t say your name out loud just now, but I read your mind, and I want you to know that I think you have a fantastic name.
How did I read your mind? Let me tell you.
Last year, when I was just eleven years old, I died in science class. One of Mr. Acidbath’s experiments went terribly wrong (more about that later), but things like that happen all the time at Scary School, so nobody made a big fuss about it. Right after class they simply wheeled out my charred corpse, and the next class walked in without so much as a blink. Scary School is a very strange place.
Much to my surprise, I came back as a ghost unable to leave the Scary School grounds. When you come back as a ghost, it means you still have something left to accomplish. For a long time, I couldn’t figure out what that was, but then I remembered that I had always wanted to be a writer when I grew up. It occurred to me that no one had ever written about Scary School and all the horrible, wonderful things that go on there.
So this year, I floated around the school, writing down all the crazy things that happened on my ghost pad. My ghost pad never runs out of paper and my ghost pen never runs out of ink. It’s pretty cool being a ghostwriter. It turned out that this year was an exciting year to write about. Scary School was chosen to host the annual Ghoul Games (more about this soon), making it the scariest year in Scary School history.
This page is a lot like a front door. As soon as you turn it, you’ll be opening the front door to Scary School, and once you step in, there is no guarantee you will make it out alive. Good luck!