It’s not explicitly said, but Stanley has some kind of mental disability. They’re traveling with their grandparents’ farmhand - a man named Stanley. Our protagonist is Jodie, who is going to visit her grandparents’ farm with her lazy brother Mark. These Grumpy Cat licensing deals are getting ridiculous! Do we really need Grumpy Cat Scarecrows?
It’s time for The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight. While I’ve never seen a scarecrow in the middle of a cornfield, there is horror in farms - the large tracts of land and dense crops, and, in the case of this week’s Goosebumps book, something one step from humanity that shouldn’t be human. And while there were no scarecrows, there was the thought that you could fall in and get stuck, or worse, someone who had the misfortune of falling in before would reach up and take you with them. While they are not tall enough to get lost in, they are spread out enough you can lose your way. The closest example to cornfields in my life might be the rice paddies that patterned every roadside in the Philippines. And when my family traveled, it was into deserts or so far west that we ended up in the east. Now, I have never seen these interminable rows of clustered vegetation because I have never been to the midwest. Children of the Corn, In the Tall Grass, and countless other examples demonstrate how terrifying cornfields are to them. I’ve gone my whole life without ever seeing those vast cornfields that Boomer and Gen X writers are obsessed with.
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