Paco gulped down the liquid from his cup like a shot from the bar. I hadn’t seen any adult beverages around, but we were getting to the part of the story where the Night Stalkers were cursed. Even I felt like drinking.

He pushed his cup aside and continued. “I told my parents, Nascha, and I were going to the Drive-In; they wouldn’t have let me go to the woods, even if Carl wasn’t there,” Paco said. “When we got to the woods, everyone was huddled around a ...