In Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, Grandpa Portman died when he ran into the woods and fell “Tell him what happened, Yakob” with that he sank back and fade in, I told him I loved him” (Riggs 37). In the short story Feather Pillow, by Horacio Quiroga, The girl Alicia is suddenly dying and no one can figure out why, but there was a parasite biting her and no one knew until it was too late. ‘Night after night, ever since Alicia had taken her to bed, it had stealthily applied its mouth its snout rather to her temple, sucking out her blood’ (Quiroga 2). In both of these short stories both had encounters with