I think I know what you're talking about: it's a story from one of those Tales for the Midnight Hour books by J.B. (Judith Bauer) Stamper. There are four of them: Tales for the Midnight Hour, More Tales for the Midnight Hour, Still More Tales for the Midnight Hour, and Even More Tales for the Midnight Hour.
The title of the story is "The Collector," and it's published in the second one, More Tales for the Midnight Hour.
An author.
Paul Borovsky has written: 'The strange blue creature' -- subject(s): Fiction, Crayons, Artists, Princesses 'The fish that wasn't' -- subject(s): Fiction, Fishes, Whales, Pets
Jo Strange has written: 'Contaminated land'
Richard Dyke Acland has written: 'Ninety-four collects for the Christian year' -- subject(s): Collects
I don't know but go to google.com type strange happenings.
Anthony Strange has written: 'Joseph Conrad, Nostromo'
Nora K. Strange has written: 'Jacobean tapestry'
Richard Strange has written: 'The life of St. Thomas of Hereford'
B. Strange
Nora Kathleen Strange has written: 'The secret stair' 'Husband of Caroline'
Lewis Strange Wingfield has written: 'How I directed a lord mayor's show'
T. V. Strange has written: 'Individually contoured seating for the disabled'