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Gretchen and her stepbrother Clark's creepy trip to their grandparents' place--which lies in the middle of a swamp--gets even scarier when growling noises start coming from the room that is always locked.

Mark is intrigued with the shrunken head his aunt sends him from the jungle island of Baladora, and his fascination only increases when he wakes one night to see the head glowing with a strange power.

Harry and his brother, Alex, go from creeped out to downright frightened when the strange goings-on at Camp Spirit Moon take a supernaturally dangerous turn.

While visiting their uncle's floating lab in the Caribbean, Billy and Sheena discover that the fish in the sea seem to be growing bigger and bigger.

Ricky's plan to get revenge on Tasha for kicking him off the school paper backfires when the message he sneaks into the paper inviting creeps to call Tasha gets printed with his number instead and the calls he gets are from real Creeps--complete with scaly purple skin and long sharp fangs.

A young girl finds a rock buried in the dirt behind her new house and is fascinated to learn that it is a quartz crystal.

Quarter-midget car racer Michael Haynes and his twin brother Mark, the team's mechanic, are used to winning their races, but when a new, unscrupulous racer starts competing, even causing Michael to be injured in a race, the twins are tempted to start using different tactics themselves.

Little Mildred Frobisher has a sleepover at the hotel where she lives with her parents and Larry the polar bear, so Larry decides that he too would like to host a sleepover for his friends.

When the young prince refuses to go to bed, assorted members of the royal household offer their ideas on exactly what he needs, but it is his sister, Princess Kate, who learns the truth.

A proud old fox scorns a youngster's simple plan for stopping the hunter who has grown skillful at killing foxes, but when he sets out to handle the problem himself, he runs into trouble. Includes facts about kyogen, a traditional type of Japanese drama, and the play from which this story is derived.