In the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug's gender identity.

"For Joanne, her husband Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same."--Back cover.

Fright-master R.L. Stine invites you on an all-new, all-terrifying adventure! The thrill ride begins when 12-year-old Britney Crosby encounters an old ventriloquist's dummy with a lively secret - and a wicked plan. Just when she thinks the nightmare is over, Britney receives an invitation to an amusement park where everything is not as it seems. Who - or what - is summoning ordinary kids to HorrorLand? Britney and her friends must find out fast - or remain trapped forever in the scariest place on Earth.

Drew Brockman and her best friend Walker launch a plan for revenge on classmates Lee and Tabby using two scary pumpkin heads. But along the way, something goes terribly wrong.

A Horror in a purple apron leaned against a small cart. The sign on top said fingers. Do you have chicken fingers? Luke asked. The Horror shook her head. No. Just fingers. Steam rose from the cart, inside lay a pile of fingers. Human fingers Pretty good with ketchup, the Horror rasped.

"The untold, true story of the world's most villainous dummy! In the Goosebumps universe, there is no villain more feared than Slappy. Endowed by his magician creator with devious powers, Slappy has only one mission in his tiny, deranged mind: Do evil every day, all day. But he may have met his match in the Carlton family. Each of Slappy's attempts to ruin their lives ends in disaster, and the dummy starts to panic. Will Slappy's scariest day yet bring an end to his reign of terror?"--

When a shiny blue wet creature slithers out of a can of Monster Blood, Evan realizes that he is up to his sneakers in a creepy mess.

Craig's the new kid in school. Everyone in town thinks he's a big hero. But the school bullies aren't convinced. They're going to run a little test involving -- for starters -- a jar filled with tarantulas.

In this story, a girl named Samantha Byrd is a klutz. One day, while practicing she found a cyrstal pendant so she wore it the whole day. Later, she met the owner, Clarrisa. Clarrisa said that Samantha was kind because she returned things that she does not own. So Clarrisa said to Samantha that she will grant Samantha three wishes. Her first wish is to be strong at the basketball game. So it happens but everyone on her team gets weak. But her enemy, Judith and her friend Anna were mean to her so Samantha said that "EVERYONE WOULD JUST BUZZ OFF". Then it happened. They all turned into flies and buzzed off. Then samantha met Clarrisa again. There she said her last wish that everything would be back to normal and Judith should be nice to her. So it happens. at first Samantha liked Judith having a friend, But it got out of control Judith even snuck into Samantha's closet. Then something will happen to Judith ...

Everyone in Goshen Falls knows about weird Vanessa. She dresses all in black and wears black lipstick. People say she puts spells on people. Crystal and her brother Cole made Vanessa mad. After she whispered that strange warning, "Chicken chicken" something weird has happened. Crystal's lips have turned as hard as a bird's beak, and Cole has started growing ugly white feathers all over his body.

After being put back to sleep and abandoned in an old museum, Slappy is brought to life by a curious girl on a school trip. Out for revenge, Slappy uses his powers to raise an army of creatures from the exhibits. But when the museum closes, Slappy and his new friends are locked inside with Arragatis, an ancient mummy with his own plan for revenge. It's dummy versus mummy as Slappy faces his most dangerous and frightening opponent yet! Can Slappy defeat this ancient adversary? Or will it be a wrap for this dummy?

A summer camp run by famous horror movie director R.B. Farraday is filled with scary rides and thrills--too scary for most happy campers.

You hold in you hand the key to a shadow world of shivers and screams. Take a step away from the safe, comfortable world you know. Unlock the door to terror. There's always room for one more in...The Nightmare Room. Say hi to Luke. Today is not his lucky day. It's the first day of school, and he just got his locker assignment--locker 13. Lucky 13? No. Not for Luke. He has just opened the door to The Nightmare Room. What will you find in The Nightmare Room next time? Find out in book 3: My Name is Evil?

Stine is the world's bestselling horror writer for children, but this is his first novel for adults. Liam is a bachelor professor of folklore and he's incurably superstitious. When people start getting murdered, it seems that Liam's demons are real.

Sarah's family is completely bizarre. So Sarah wishes that her family were different--and cooler. Then magically, Sarah gets her wish--she gets her perfect family. And learns that from now on she should be really careful what she wishes for!

"Sascha Nelson and her best friend, Nicole Hilliard, love to cook! So when their favorite TV show Kids' Big Chef Food Fights comes to their school for a special competition, they're ecstatic! But school cheaters Ashli and Nathan are also in the show. When Sascha and Nicole buy a mysterious can called Monster Blood is Back, they think they've found the perfect ingredient. Unfortunately, the trouble with Monster Blood always seems to grow and grow. Can they get the slime under control, or will it swallow up the competition?"--Page [4] of cover.

A collection of ten scary stories with brief introductions by the author.

Twelve kids with special abilities have been selected to take part in a survival competition called Life Games. Not only will they have to overcome the dangers of life on a tropical island, they'll also have to face the evil presence that lives there ... waiting for its next victim. Fear Games April can't wait to go to the Life Games competition. Only eleven other kids were chosen to take part in the tough physical challenges, and April knows she will survive and win the $100,000 prize. What poor April doesn't know is that an ancient evil will be playing in the games as well. And what April will really be competing for... is her life!

"What do Zoey and Billy Traister do when they find an abandoned ventriloquist dummy in an empty lot? They take him home, of course! As the pair tries to figure out why someone would throw out a perfectly good dummy, they accidentally bring Slappy to life. A night of horror ensues until the siblings put Slappy back into his case. But when they find Slappy's diary and clues that could lead to gold, they'll have to find Slappy's second diary while evading the evil dummy and other terrors."--

Jamie Kolker is a huge fan of Hecula the He-Beast, a comic book monster, until one day he gets his hands on the artist's program, which somehow releases the monster into the real world.