Zackie Beauchamp wants to be a famous horror author, but even he is frightened when everything he writes on the old typewriter he found in a burned-out antique store starts to come true.
A collection of short graphic novels featuring characters from famous "Goosebumps" stories includes "Ghost Beach," in which two siblings investigate a local legend and discover a terrible secret about their family.
Evan visits a funky old toy store and buys a dusty can of monster blood. It's fun to play with at first, but soon he notices something weird about the slimy stuff.
Because twelve-year-old Lucy pretends to see monsters everywhere, no one believes her when she discovers that the librarian in charge of the summer reading program is a real one.
When Billy goes away to summer camp, he suspects something evil is going on when fellow campers begin to disappear and his parents will not answer his letters.
Amy is thrilled when her father brings home Slappy, a ventriloquist dummy he found in a local pawn shop, but her enjoyment turns to terror when she discovers Slappy has an evil routine of his own.