While spending the summer at Grandmary's summer home on Goose Lake, Samantha and her twin cousins decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
After moving to the town of Dark Falls and finding their new--old--house very creepy, Amanda and Josh's parents encourage them to make new friends, which proves to be a hauntingly dangerous mistake.
Max is thrilled when he discovers a mirror in his attic that can make him invisible, but his fun turns to fright when his disappearances begin to last longer than he wants.
Lucy has always liked to tell monster stories, so when she actually does discover the librarian in charge of the summer reading program really is a monster, no one believes her.
Billy learns a very dangerous lesson when he ignores his uncle Dr. Deep's warning to stay away from the coral reefs while diving and encounters a horrifying half-human, half-fish creature lurking deep below the surface.
Sold in financial desperation to a wealthy duke in the far north of Scotland, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to be reunited with her former master in Yorkshire.