Request #604 From Jon

I’m searching for a book I read around 2010-2012, it was a middle grade anthology book published between the late eighties and early 2000s and the author was a man. One of the longer stories in the anthology follows a girl who makes a deal with some malicious entity who promises to fulfill her wishes in exchange for slivers of silver, which she pays with silver candle shavings. As the entity grants more wishes it asks for more expensive payments, eventually asking for slivers of gold, which the girl once again pays with golden candle shavings. The deals are sealed with a gold amulet in this short story, and at the end of the story it was revealed that the entity was stealing gold links from the amulet as payment until the length of the chain got so short the girl was choked. 

All stories in this anthology are in the same vein of cautionary tale and middle grade horror. The cover of the edition I read was lime green with the title in misshapen lettering, and there was a flower and mirrors reflecting eyes on the front cover as well. 

It was not scary stories to tell in the dark, and it was not the Cursed Carnival and Ofher Calamities.