horror fiction

Katie and her eleven-year old brother Andy Lawrence move to Appleton, and while spending a day sightseeing at the famous Appleton Orchard strange things start happening, starting with their parents turning into appleheads and the town's children are turning into zombies.

What is going on in Lab 6? Whatever it is, Sam Hughes is somehow involved. He hears a strange voice calling him from behind the the lab door. As Sam Hughes gets closer to the truth, the more the danger grows.

Kate Orton loves animals, especially unusual ones. So when she sees a pop-up ad on her computer for an amazing lizard from Australia, she has to have it. The ad says the lizard is actually a kind of chameleon--it can change its color to blend in with its surroundings. But what makes this lizard really strange is that it's a copycat--the ad says it can even change its shape. Kate's parents don't believe all the claims in the ad, but they tell her to go ahead and order it. They tell her not to be disappointed if it's just a plain old lizard. After anxiously checking the mail every day for two weeks, the package finally arrives. But when she finally opens it--there's no lizard inside. There's only an egg with a written warning. Is Katie ready for what's about to hatch?.

The kids from Spooksville decide to explore a local cave only to have the entrance close behind them. Now something that has been in the cave is following them and they must find the way out before they get caught.

Evan begins to fear he has unleashed disaster when a dusty can of monster blood he bought at an old toy store starts to grow and acquire an appetite.

Skipper Matthews sees a building in Riverview Falls that looks exactly like one from his comic book collection--the Masked Mutant's secret headquarters--and wonders if the evil supervillain could really live in his own home town.

Matt, determined to move out of his tiny bedroom, defies his mother and sneaks into the guest room to sleep, but he soon wishes he had listened to his mom when he wakes up in a different reality.

When Rose and Anna stop to investigate a strange lending library that has suddenly appeared, they find themselves trapped by the monstrous Digest Bird--and only Rose's quick thinking, a copy of Rose Red and Snow White, and the Red Librarian can save them and the other children trapped in the nest.

When 15-year-old Greyson Bennell volunteers to help with the cleanup effort after a massive mudslide devastates his California town, he is not expecting anything but some hard work--but this disaster was caused by a very peculiar storm and he soon realizes that the mud itself is making the other volunteers behave in an ominous manner.

Contains two frightening tales by R.L. Stine, including "Stay Away From the Tree House" in which Dylan and Steve have a spooky night sleeping in a tree house, and "Eye of the Fortuneteller" in which Kelsey's fears start to come true after an encounter with a psychic.