



Late that night, awakened by sounds coming from where the small room is, Kenny opens the door to a horrifying tale from the past. All day long Kenny can't shake the feeling that someone is in the attic with him. While he puts his things away, Kenny discovers a small room at the far end of the attic with a mysterious dark stain covering the center of the floor. But things start to look a little brighter when Kenny's Mom shows him his new bedroom: a long, open attic with plenty of room and privacy. It was as if, from under that box, a body was struggling to be free. His new home, The Stillwell House, was built in 1789 and, like everything in Providence, it seems old-fashioned and somber. It was as if, from under that box, a body was struggling to be free."-from Something Upstairs Kenny Huldorf is not happy when he learns that he and his family will be moving all the way across the country to Rhode Island, a state smaller than Los Angeles, the city he's known his whole life. These hands and arms seemed to be not flesh and blood but sculptured, glowing smoke. "What Kenny saw-or thought he saw- were two hands, then two arms, reaching up from the stain, pushing away a box of his mother's old books that was sitting on it.
