Miller accepts the terms and departs into the cold, windy night; he reaches the grave at midnight and plants the knife as instructed, but as he attempts to leave, he is suddenly pulled back down.

They find him lying dead atop Sykes' grave, the knife driven through his coattail and pinning him to the ground.

Final comment: you take this with a grain of salt or a shovelful of earth, as shadow or substance, we leave it up to you.

And for any further research, check under 'G,' for 'ghosts'...in the Twilight Zone.Leonard Q. Ross published a similar story in 1941, called "The Path Through the Cemetery."

The boy takes the dare, states he will stick a knife in the grave to prove he was there, and then proceeds to meet the same fate that night.