Sixteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth's summer job at an expensive health club turns out to be more exciting than she bargained for when a series of mysterious events culminate in murder.
An old book of magic enables Magnolia Possum and her grandmother to experiment with spells while unaware that the pages containing instructions on how to undo them are missing.
While helping their aunt with hotel renovations, Chris and Amy learn that their aunt's island may be haunted by the ghosts of Joshua and his dog Shadow.
Thirteen years old and a budding comedian, Cody has little to laugh about after he and his mother move from California to Texas to help his sick grandmother and he finds himself framed by his jealous cousin for calling in bomb threats to their school.
In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
Jeff and Debbie make their way through the snow to the old Hackman mansion to look for a stolen Egyptian mummy. Soon they are trapped in the house by the snow.
A collection of stories about eerie encounters in various ghost towns across the United States; each story is accompanied by an afterword about the actual town on which the story is based.