Evil Elizabeth

This is part of the Super Chiller group and it is indeed much darker than the regular stories. In this case a dog has dug up something and Elizabeth ends up with it. It's actually some type of evil mask that changes the mental outlook of anyone wearing it. It turns them evil and, unless it is somehow stopped, the person will remain evil even withtout the mask being on.

Jessica is very strong in this book, doing everything she can to save her sister from such a fate. This involves an old woman living alone in a house that is run down, a group of nasty girls that Elizabeth ends up joining, and an important contribution by Steven.

It's a very intense book and you don't know until almost the very end how things will turn out for the twins.

There are two things in the book that stood out to me. One is when the young girls are together and one of them speaks a prophcy about the evil mask. As far as I know that particular girl doesn't have a background in the occult although since I haven't read every since SVT book I could be wrong.

The other thing is a logic problem. The woman to whom the mask belonged knew that it was evil and very dangerous so she had it buried in her yard. Wouldn't it have made more sense to burn it? As far as we can tell it's made of burnable material so burning it would have been an act of purification.

Still, those are minor points and don't detract from how good the book is.