horror fiction

Athena, Gia, and their mothers are camping at the Skull Valley Campground making smores when a talking bat gets tangled in Gia's hair, and two pale and spooky strangers appear out of nowhere--but these vampires are looking for something sweeter than blood.

George's new dog is obsessed with the cemetery, but one night on their walk he digs up an arm bone--and the previous owner follows George home.

When Aubrey gets to the cafeteria for lunch she finds that there is a strange new cook, with a kitchen full of glowing bottles, and a big black pot full of mashed potatoes, so when all the children fall under a dish-washing spell it is obvious to Aubrey that their new lunch lady is a witch--or has Aubrey fallen asleep during science class and dreamed it all?.

There is something in Howard's backpack that should not be there; he is initially relieved to find out that it is just a strange cell phone--until the voice on the phone instructs him to bring it to the cemetery, third gravestone from the left.

"When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is packed to the gills with useless garbage. That would be horrors enough, but there's more. Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be the ravings of a broken mind. Until she encounters some of the terrifying things he described herself. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse has to confront a series of impossible terrors--because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they're looking for you. And if she doesn't face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale"--Provided by the publisher.

To impress her mom, Livvy and Jayden build a robot and soon they realize they've made a terrible mistake. Francine has too much brain power. She's alive!.

Three boys go camping with their parents. After they are told not to go into the forest, the boys take turns imagining the different monsters that live there.

"Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and how they've been brought to life in 13 unique and unforgettable ways"--Provided by the publisher.

Fourteen-year-old Derek Stone's simple life with his father and older brother in New Orleans is thrown into a tailspin when the dead come back to life, and for unknown reasons begin to haunt Derek.

Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students, and, as hall monitor, it is his job to protect them, but he will need some help from his friends.