Countdown To Halloween – Story #6

Narrated version of "The Drum" from More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark collected by Alvin Schwartz, 1984. The story is adapted from the cautionary fairy tale/short story, "The New Mother", by Lucy Clifford published in 1882. The story also inspired the novella, Coraline, by Neil Gaiman published in 2002 and later made into the film of the same name in 2009.