Emma-Lee is the main antagonist of the fifth book in the Goosebumps House of Shivers book series, The Last Sleepover.
History[]
Ten years prior to the events of the story, a girl named Emma-Lee lived in a house with her parents. Her family was poor, she always wore hand me down clothing and despite her best efforts, she would always be mocked by the more popular kids at school. Emma played on the school soccer team with popular girls Alecia, Marta, Patti and Kristina. Despite them constantly mocking her, making fun of her bangs and treating her poorly, Emma-Lee still wanted to be friends with them.
She invited the four over to her house for a sleepover, but when she woke up later that night, Emma Lee saw that her bangs were cut off, a mustache was drawn on her face and the letters IM UG drawn on her forehead. In a rage, Emma-Lee attacks the girls, but they overpower her and throw her in the bedroom closet. Before Emma-Lee could react, she felt herself being sucked away into another dimension. Her body being left in the world of the dead, but her spirit returning to her home. Everyone can hear her, but nobody was able to find her, not even her parents, who would soon move away.
Ten years later, the Barger family moved into Emma-Lee's house. They renovated the entire building and teenage son Rory installed a security system called Alyssa to control the windows, doors and lights. However, things begin to get strange as the windows shut on their own, landing on the hair of one of the friends of Lily Barger, Megan. Rory, a member of the Ghost-Catcher Club at school, believes that Emma-Lee must be haunting the house, but Lily doesn't believe it at first. But overtime, more strange things happen. The upstairs closet is strangely freezing, Lily finds a mouse in a sandwich at school, among other attempts to scare the family.
Lily soon discovers that it's Emma-Lee who is trying to use Alyssa to scare the family, but the device can't do things like smash windows or set things on fire. Lily confronts Emma-Lee, only to be thrown down the stairs. Lily and Rory recruit Morgan Strange, a ghost catcher, to catch Emma-Lee, but he gets scared off by the mice in the basement. Morgan and her friends decide to have their sleepover at Lily's. Things go well until the doors start to shut, the music plays deafeningly loud and they can't escape. Emma-Lee emerges and is ready to finish off the girls, when Lily runs over and hugs her, realizing that Emma-Lee has been lonely for ten years and needs a friend. She invites Emma-Lee to the sleepover and hides the truth from Rory.