Black Phone Book (Reader Plan)
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ScribdTranslations- Introduction of Characters and Setting
- First Kidnapping and Psychic Elements
- Finney's Abduction
- Communications with Ghosts
- Bully's Advice and Escape Attempts
- Further Instructions and Family Connections
- Griffin and Vance's Guidance
- Final Confrontation and Escape
- Resolution and Reunion
In 1978, a serial child abductor nicknamed
"The Grabber" prowls the streets of a Denver
suburb.
Siblings Finney and Gwen Blake live in the
area with their alcoholic and abusive father.
At school, Finney is frequently bullied, he
has a friendship with a classmate, Robin, who
defends himself against bullies.
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A boy from another school that Finney knew,
Bruce, is kidnapped by Grabber. Gwen, on the
other hand, has psychic dreams very similar to
her late mother. He dreams about Bruce's
kidnapping and sees a man taking him away
in a black van with black balloons.
Detectives Wright and Miller interview Gwen,
but have a hard time believing her claims.
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Grabber's psychopath kidnaps Robin, as well
as Finney days later.
Finney wakes up in a soundproof basement.
On the wall is an unplugged black phone that
Grabber says doesn't work.
Later, Finney hears the phone ringing and
answers it.
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The ghost of Bruce, unable to remember his
own name or who he was when he was alive.
He tells Finney about a tile he can remove to
dig a tunnel and escape.
The police search for Finney is unsuccessful.
The Grabber brings Finney food and leaves
the basement door open.
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Finney prepares to sneak out, but is stopped
on the phone by another boy named Billy.
Bully explains to Finney that this is a game
that Grabber always plays.
And he is waiting for him sitting upstairs, to
attack him with a belt if he leaves the
basement.
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After Billy explained to him what Grabber
was going to do with him if he came up.
Finney closed the door and picked up the
phone to continue talking to Billy.
Billy instructs him to use a cable he found to
climb out the basement window.
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Finney followed the instructions given to him,
found the cable and proceeded to tie it to the
bars of the window, but it did not help him
much because it did not withstand his weight,
which prevents him from escaping.
While Gwen, Finney's sister, dreams that Billy
is kidnapped and tells her father what is
happening, but her father does not believe her
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because he thinks she is crazy, like her
mother.
Wright and Miller talk to an eccentric man
named Max who is staying at the kidnapper's
home.
It is revealed that Finney is being held in
Max's basement, which he is unaware of, and
Grabber is his brother.
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After a heated exchange with Grabber, where
he tests Finney's honesty, he makes it seem
like he's let him off the hook.
Finney speaks on the phone with another
victim of Gabber's dementia, Griffin.
Griffin shows Finney the combination to a
lock and informs him that Grabber has fallen
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asleep, which is when he has another chance
to escape.
Finney sneaks up and opens the door, but
Grabber's dog alerts him to Finney's escape,
but unfortunately he is recaptured.
Dejected by his failed escape attempt, Finney
answers the phone to listen to another victim,
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a thug named Vance whom he had been afraid
of.
Vance informs Finney of a connected storage
room, which he can escape from by opening a
hole in the wall and exiting through the
freezer on the other side of the wall.
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Finney creates a hole with the toilet tank lid
and enters the back of the freezer, only to
discover that the freezer door is locked.
The phone rings once again with Robin on the
end of the line, he comforts Finney and
encourages him to finally stand up and fight
for himself. He instructs Finney to remove
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the phone receiver and pack it with the dirt he
had dug up to use as a weapon.
Gwen dreams of Vance's kidnapping and
discovers the Grabber's ownership. Find the
house and contact the detectives.
Max realizes that Finney is being held in the
house and runs to the basement to free him.
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Finney tries to tell Max that his brother is after
him with an axe, but Max didn't understand
what he was saying and that's when his
brother kills him.
The police rush to the house Gwen found in
her dream, but discover it is empty. The
agents begin to investigate the place, search
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the basement and find the buried bodies of the
Grabber victims.
While the cops were looking for Finney in the
wrong house, Grabber attacks Finney with the
axe. The boy manages to trip Grabber on the
rope, causing him to fall into the tunnel he had
been digging.
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When that fall happens, Grabber breaks it and
gets his ankle stuck in the window bars placed
at the bottom.
The ghosts taunt Grabber over the phone
before he snaps his neck and kills him.
Finney distracts the guard dog with meat from
the freezer and escapes the house using the
combination he learned.
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Finney leaves the house across the street from
the graves where he reunites with Gwen and
the police rush to the property.
The brothers console each other until their
father arrives. When he appears, he tells them
how sorry he is for the bad treatment he gave
them and apologizes to them.
End
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