Im looking for a book which was read to me at school in the late eighties/early nineties. It was about two kids and a scarecrow battling evil at night as this is when the scarecrow came alive. I remember there being two evil hounds chasing them.
Hope someone may have a better memory than mine and know the title!

Could it be The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight from the Goosebumps series? It sounds similar.