{"product_id":"2940014098816","title":"Peter and the Helpers: Peter and the Monsters Story #14","description":"It started with Peter and Dill discovering a magical room in Grandfather’s house. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA place that seems to go on forever. A room where time stops.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut something from the room has now escaped into our world…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e…and it doesn’t want to go back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from Peter And The Helpers:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter peered out into the darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe room had to be at least 300 feet long. At least.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe wasn’t exactly sure how long the entire house was, but he knew that 300 feet was the length of a football field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe house was NOT as long as a football field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat meant the room was longer than the house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich was impossible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was not only impossible, it was very, very wrong, in an unsettling, spooky sort of way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dill,” Peter whispered, “I think we better – ”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat was when they heard the first sounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter held his breath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe noises sounded like scratching, like a mouse creeping in the darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen the noises stopped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey seemed to be coming from far up ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hey, did you hear that?” Dill asked quietly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter nodded – and then realized that Dill couldn’t see him in the pitch black shadows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Yes,” he whispered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt wouldn’t be that weird for a mouse to be in here with them. After all, it was a giant room, and it was dark. It would be strange for there not to be a mouse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen the sounds came again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this time there were more of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd they were closer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrrSkrrrr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen they stopped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter shivered. One mouse was okay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this sounded like three or four.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd it might not be mice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt could be rats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBig rats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlump and hairy, with long, ugly, naked pink tails trailing along behind them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd sharp teeth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter could imagine something fat and loathsome crawling over his foot, then sinking sharp little fangs into his ankle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuddenly, there were way more sounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDOZENS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt sounded like a stampede of rats scrabbling towards them in the darkness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“DILL, RUN!” Peter screamed as he turned heel and raced for the light in the distance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe could hear his footsteps cracking across the wooden floor, and he knew Dill was running, too, because the sound of footsteps was doubled. But they were not enough to drown out the chittering, clattering, scraping sounds of the tiny claws behind them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR SKRRR","brand":"Darren Pillsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147612766448,"sku":"2940014098816","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014098816_p0.jpg?v=1763600529","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014098816","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}