So recently I remembered a book I read when I was younger about a boy who has a well (or something similar) on his property and he slowly becomes posessed by it or something inside it making him more evil. A scene I remember well was he had just beat his bully finally in a fight and is sitting on him. The bully pleads for the boy to no longer hurt him which doesn't work and the boy brings his fist down on the bully's face and breaks his nose. After seeing blood on his hand he realizes what he's done and freaks out. Does anyone else remember this book?
Honestly I may have somehow imagined the whole thing but I don't think I did cause I remember grabbing it from the bookcase that I had in my 3'rd grade class. And I don't think however I old was me could've come up with a story like this
How long ago did you read this book? How old are you? You can try Google Book Search if you can remember what was on the cover. Was it hard or paperback? Do you remember the author? Was this from your school library or public library or a bookstore (if so, which one?)?
I was about 8,15 now. If I'm right there was woods, a trail, and a well. It was paperback. No I don't remember the author. It wasn't from a school library it was in my teacher's room.
Was it meant as a kids book or an adult novel that just featured a kid? Sounds like something Steven King would write. A strangely dark Goosebumps novel with the possession bit?
What color was the cover? What was on the cover? I ask, not to say you are wrong, but to say that your memory isn't adding up. There are books for third graders that are "scary" for their target audience, but absolutely none of them deal with possession. The closest anything comes would be R.L. Stine's The Haunted Mask, and even that isn't outright possession in terms of a spirit possessing a small child. I would also bet money your 3rd grade teacher knew exactly what was on her shelves and again, I am certain none of it dealt with child possession. The thing about childhood memories is that they seem larger than life, because they are so big in the eyes of a child, and as we age then the don't fit in our mind (it's why if you ask someone who is in their late 30s or early 40s if they had a Masterpiece Optimus Prime as a kid vice a G1, they will resoundingly say yes if they aren't Transformers fans - because they remember an awesome toy from their childhood and the G1 fails to equate to what they think they remember). Not to say you are disremembering it, but i would ask was it really about demon possession from a well (which does sound an awful lot like Locke and Key), and did the protagonist really beat someone bloody (which also sounds a lot like the movie A Christmas Story)? I wonder if you might be misremembering what you've read and filling in gaps with material you read when you were older.
The trees were either black or dark brown, the well was grey, and leaves on the trees were fall colors.
Then you might want to look at The Haunted Mask by R.L. Stine. It's one of his more famous Goosebumps stories.
That reminds me of a messed up book I read in 2nd grade it was about a kid in Afghanistan and his mom and his sister who makes carpets then one day the sister gets run over by a truck she survives then there was a bomb attack that kills him, his sister, and his mom then the kid has a dream about him and his family running on a carpet running away from missiles
