Locker 313 (en Inglés) - Dustin Ray;Holly Harris

Never open Locker 313.

Marcus Reyes has a system for first days. Sit near the door. Learn three names. Never unpack the boxes.

Hollow Falls High is his sixth school in five years, and he doesn’t plan to stay long enough to care. Then he walks down the third-floor east hall and passes Locker 313, the one with no lock and no number on the office list.

Everyone knows the rumor. Something gets left inside for you, and once it does, you’ve been claimed. At exactly 3:13, you’re gone, and the school calls you a runaway.

Gabe Morales didn’t run away. Marcus knows it the morning he opens Locker 313 and finds something waiting for him.

With Nadia, a school reporter who won’t quit, and Tyler, a class clown who’s braver than he lets anyone see, Marcus starts digging. He finds a pale, forgettable man in a grey cardigan who walks the halls and never raises his voice. He finds yearbooks reaching back to 1974, full of faces nobody remembers. And he finds an old custodian who was there the night the school was built and has kept quiet for fifty years.

The district plans to remove the locker on the last day before winter break. If they’re wrong about what’s inside, every kid marked "runaway" will stay gone forever, and the next name on the list is Marcus’s.

The last bell rings at 3:13.

Locker 313 is Book 2 of Tales from Hollow Falls, a series of standalone horror novels for readers 12 and up. Different stories. The same town. Some nightmares never end.

You can always check out. But you can never leave.