horror fiction

Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar.

Presents two short horror stories for children by R. L. Stine in which Billy and Sheena find themselves in two unlikely adventures as they face their worst nightmares.

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.

Sarah gets off to a very bad start at Camp Cold Lake, but soon realizes her troubles with her bunkmates were minor compared to the constant badgering she is getting from Della, a ghostly girl who wants Sarah to be her dead buddy.

Ava and Courtney get angry at Steven, whose magic tricks always happen at their expense, and trick him into drinking a mixture of chemicals, but the drink has surprising effects and Steven finds out how challenging it is to navigate his house when he is only nine inches tall.

Jack Harmon, who is bullied at school, finds a cell phone and hears a strange voice who wants him to do bad things.

Lee Hargrove gives his friend Cory "Lucky Duck" Duckworth a special birthday surprise to keep him from competing in the contest to win a scholarship to sports camp.

Several children ignore the rule against touching the exhibits while visiting a museum of horrors, and when they begin to have symptoms of an awful curse, the children know that they must find a cure before it is too late.

A London physician who leads a double life discovers a drug that alters his appearance.

Carly Beth, who believes she has found the best mask for Halloween-with long animal fangs and yellow-green skin-soon discovers that she cannot take it off.