horror fiction

Contains seventeen short stories about everything that could go wrong during air travel.

Sam Graves and his friends Lucy and Antonio have used their positions as hall monitors to thwart Orson Eerie's attacks on the students of Eerie Elementary--but now Orson is determined to get them fired before his next attack, planned for the annual Kickball Showdown.

Sam is working on making a clay dinosaur for the school art show and sale when the clay suddenly comes to life and attacks him, a sure sign that once again Orson Eerie, whose spirit inhabits the school, is up to something--and it is up to Sam, Antonio, and Lucy, to discover how a self-portrait of Orson figures into his evil plan.

Jake Prescott is an amateur magician hustling tourists on the streets of Reno, when the magician Augustus Towers takes him on as an assistant; Towers has plans to renovate the Regal Theater where The Marvelous Melbourne died in his Spirit Cabinet in 1948--Jake is soon spooked by the creepy atmosphere, convinced that the malevolent spirit of Melbourne is still there guarding his tricks.

Black Creek middle school football players are happy after a win at a rival school, but the bus that picks them up for the trip home is not the same as the one that brought them, and it is driven by a shadowy figure behind a plastic wall--but when the bus stops to pick up a passenger it turns out to be their dead coach and the terrified team does not know if he there to doom or save them from the School Bus of Horrors.

Contains thirty stories, including ones about kids becoming cartoons, bullies suffering from bat hair, and weenies in a library. Includes notes on how the author got his ideas for these stories.

Twelve-year-old Malik Jackson is afraid of the dark, so he is reluctant to join his friend, Ian, in an exploration of an abandoned mansion on the night before Halloween, but he agrees to the adventure because a girl he likes is going--but he soon realizes that it is not the dark he needs to be afraid of, it is the things that are hiding inside the dark.

A boy must save his headless best friend when a talent show magic act goes horribly awry.

Jordan Keppler is looking forward to a nice, quiet day at Carnival World. He may not love the scary rides like his sister, Karla, does, but he'll still go on them with her. But Jordan and Karla are about to experience something much more terrifying. There's a boy in a cage hidden away in a secret part of the park. And he's begging for some food. The sign next to him says "Please do not feed the weirdo". What harm could it do, though? Jordan and Karla are about to find out what it's like to deal with an endless appetite.

"During the first winter after the Monster Apocalypse, Jack and his buddies prepare for a monstrous Christmas celebration, but a supervillainess steals Jack's prized monster-slaying weapon, his Louisville Slicer, and he vows to get it back."--Provided by publisher.