A gingerbread man, baked by a little old lady for her husband, bursts from the oven ready to save the world, beginning with trying to rescue some brownies from a macaroon gone mad.
After he is clawed by a stray, Tray finds himself turning into a cat every night, so he sets out to find the old gray tomcat called Honcho who can reverse the curse, and the reader is invited to choose between three possible outcomes.
Ten-year-olds Malcolm and Dandy think their ghost-hunting days are over when they start fifth grade with the toughest teacher in their school, but Malcolm's photographs for the yearbook reveal that the school is haunted.
Malcolm and Dandy have added a new gadget to their ghost hunting gear, X-Specs, and these miraculous glasses are supposed to have X-ray vision, but all they seem to do is hypnotize whoever looks at them.
The local movie theater is hosting Horrorfest and Malcolm and Dandy can't wait to see their favorite horror classics up on the big screen, but the Wolfman, the Fly, and King Kong have escaped their black and white films and are after them.
At the county fair, ten-year-olds Malcolm and Dandy face a real ghost in the Screaming Mansion, while at home, Malcolm's sister Cocoa's attempt to become Fair Queen has the family in turmoil.
Forced on a camp-out with their fathers, ten-year-olds Malcolm and Dandy seek the smelly ghost of notorious outlaw Wild Willy Wallace, who is believed to haunt his old hideout at Lake Itchyburr.
When Malcolm gets a school assignment to write a research report on a long-dead local hero who wrote a book about his adventure-packed life, he is shocked to meet the author's ghost, who reveals that he was a fake.
When the local museum hosts the exhibit for the mummy of Egyptian king Tuturtikum, Malcolm and Dandy want to be the first in line, but they soon learn there is more to the mummy than just a wad of rotting rags.
