TO FREDRIK my son who got the wrong inscription that started it all many years ago
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 The Trouble Begins 1 CHAPTER 2 A Monster on the Loose 19 CHAPTER 3 The Bats in the Attic 33 CHAPTER 4 Ghosts and Monsters 47 CHAPTER 5 Frank Meets His Match 79
CHAPTER 1 THE TROUBLE BEGINS There once was a boy named Fred Or at least he thought that was his name He'd been Fred yesterday as he coughed and sneezed and shivered on the sofa He'd been Fred when his mother drizzled his name in syrup across his pancake this morning before he came back to school after being out sick And he'd been Fred as he waited in line on the playground where friends
