The Tale of the Prom Queen

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Air Date: Saturday, November 7, 1992
Storyteller: Kristen (Rachel Blanchard)

Frame: The episode opens with a mysterious, ghostly figure heading towards the clearing where the Midnight Society meets. Most of the group is at the bonfire, busy with their own things, and Frank (Jason Alisharan) brings up the fact that Kristen is late. Gary (Ross Hull) gets frustrated and starts getting into the rules about being late when the ghostly figure enters the clearing, scaring the group, who quickly realize it's actually Kristen, who then takes her seat and begins her story without breaking her eerie character.

Story: New to town, a girl named Dede (Katie Griffin), while bored and exploring her new community, meets a couple of guys named Greg (André Todorovic) and Jam (Graeme Millington) in a cemetery. They tell her an urban legend involving a girl who died at the cemetery gates, waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up for prom, and they were in the cemetery hoping to get a glimpse of her ghost. Fascinated, Dede decides to help them try to contact this ghost and/or her boyfriend in some unusual hope of getting them together so they can be happy. But there's more than meets the eye in the whole scenario.

Review: This story resonates with me like 'The Hungry Hounds' (also a Kristen story) in that the subject matter isn't exactly my cup of tea, and the whole thing gets a little boring. That said, at least this is a take on an urban legend, familiar territory, and not without its share of atmosphere. It's also much more straightforward than 'Hungry Hounds,' and the ending, albeit highly predictable (to some), is still a half-decent twist and one of the happier endings there is to one of these stories. So, while this story has some charm, it severely lacks any scares. But don't worry, Kristen does have some good ones as well.

Final Rating: Calm

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