This vocabulary word search contains 20 words and phrases from the short story "The Hook" from the iconic 1981 children's book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz. The words only appear horizontally and vertically to facilitate reading fluency. Great for independent readers or for a quick Halloween vocabulary activity! Words and Phrases Included: movies, parked, valley, news-bulletin, escaped, state-prison, knife, south, on-foot, left-hand, climb, locked, window, scared, annoy