In their cells that night, Ramon reveals he skipped the draft as his brother was sent home "in pieces" and he was scared of serving. Stella and Ramon find Chuck's pen as the only thing left of him before they are found by hospital orderlies and arrested by Police Chief Turner who reveals that Ramon is a draft dodger. The entity appears all around him and pulls him inside her. Chuck is separated from Stella and Ramon and is confronted by The Pale Lady, a phantom from his recurring nightmares. The group's investigations take them to a hospital where they discover Sarah's own brother Ephriam was performing electroshock therapy on Sarah to hide the fact that the family had been poisoning the town's water with mercury, killing children. Ruth is taken to the hospital, badly traumatized but alive. The group race to warn her and find her just as the spot explodes and releases hundreds of spiders onto Ruth. Meanwhile, Ruth discovers a spider bite on her cheek and as she goes to the school bathroom to inspect it, a new story with her as the main character is written: "The Red Spot". Terrified and realizing they are next, the group try and fail to destroy the book before deciding to research into Sarah Bellows's past to find any way to stop the hauntings. Auggie flees, pursued by the corpse and hides in his room but is attacked by it and dragged under his bed, disappearing. The pair attempt to warn him of the threat - a living corpse looking for its missing toe which is inside a stew that Auggie has been eating. That night, Stella and Ramon witness a new story being written "The Big Toe" with Auggie as the main character. Although Stella is convinced that Tommy has been turned into a scarecrow, the others are skeptical, especially Ramon who fears the police will see him as a suspect in the disappearance due to his earlier altercation with Tommy. Unsettled, Stella and the others investigate and find a scarecrow wearing Tommy's clothes and with similar hair. Meanwhile, Tommy is attacked by a scarecrow called Harold in a cornfield and is stabbed by the creature with a pitchfork before vomiting hay and seemingly transforming. In her room Stella discovers that a new story entitled "Harold" is writing itself in the book and the lead character is Tommy. After Tommy leaves, they are released by an unseen presence and escape. Tommy tracks them down and locks them in the room along with his girlfriend and Chuck's sister Ruth. Inside they find a secret room and a book of scary stories belonging to Sarah Bellows who is not in any family photographs. The group decides to explore a local haunted house which belonged to the Bellows family who helped found the town. now boasting a long scar down her cheek where the spiders burst out.On Halloween night in 1968, three teenagers in the small town of Mill Valley - horror-obsessed amateur writer Stella and her friends Auggie and Chuck, play a prank on school bully Tommy Milner and evade him with the help of drifter Ramon. Although Ruthie spends some time in the mental hospital after the event, she's seen in the final moments of the film. They're able to find her and help get the spiders off her body before they overtake her fully. However, the others targeted by the book are able to see the story building within Sarah's book. Ruthie is soon covered in spiders, which quickly begin biting her and crawling around the restroom. Within seconds, the welt has burst open, and a deluge of spiders spring from her open wound. This causes it to start moving, bumping under her skin. Ruthie notices a single black strand sticking out of it, and touches it. But when it becomes too large to hide, she runs to a restroom to inspect it. Mistaking the bite for acne, she tries to hide it so she can still take part in the school musical. Caught up in spider webs within the house, it's revealed that she received a bite from one of the arachnids. Ruthie (Natalie Ganzhorn) is only briefly trapped in the Bellows house, but she's irrevocably changed by her experience with Sarah.
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