Stine, R. L

Delia and Karina have always been rivals for the best grades, the most friends, and the hottest guys, but this year Karina decides she wants Vincent and if she can't have him then no one can.

Visiting their uncle's seaside home for the summer, a brother and sister open a mysterious trunk in a back room and discover a sinister-looking pirate puppet that comes to life and takes them captive.

Slappy and Snappy can walk and talk on their own. And they can make you scream on their own. They have a plan to make everyone's lives miserable. Will Luke be able to stop this terrible twin twosome?.

Grady begins to suspect his new pet might be a werewolf when a series of strange incidents occur in Fever Swamp right after the dog's arrival.

Joker Paul Perez finds himself in serious trouble when his parents place him in a boarding school run by a monster who eats students who fail to do well.

Eddie, tired of show-off Courtney, comes up with a plan to lure her down to Muddy Creek and scare her with the rumors of creepy Mud Monsters, but he makes his first mistake when he refuses to believe the rumors himself.

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?.

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.