horror

Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing--and terrifying--playground of amusements he calls "Christmasland." Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx's unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He's on the road again and he's picked up a new passenger: Vic's own son.

Jeff finds that his once helpful, but invisible, playmate is a vicious, hell-spawned creature, intent on possessing him.

Follow this frightening fable of Freddy and his pal, Lumpy as they face the flesh-eating forces of giant spiders. But, it's their own fault! If only they hadn't killed all those little spiders. If only they had learned-to appreciate those crawing creatures.

Verses and cut-out collages introduce children to the letters of the alphabet.