Jace Thomas buys a sleek, red ride-on toy car at a garage sale in Ravens Pass, but when the car attacks him, Jace realizes that everything at that sale is cursed.
Three seventh-graders at Ravens Pass Middle School cheat on a math test and think they have gotten away with it--until a very strange substitute teacher starts treating them in an ominous manner.
Twelve-year-old Collin Bertram and his family have just moved to Ravens Pass, and he is disturbed when his new acquaintance Tucker tells him about the vampire attacks--but not for the reason you might think.
Jake Demby is being bullied by a kid called Gary Herk, until his friend sends him a golem named Emmet from Ravens Pass as a protector--but when Emmet threatens Jake's mother the situation starts to spin out of control.
Hank and Gus want to investigate the legend that the Ravens Pass city hall was built over a cellar with a witch sealed inside it, and a school field trip seems like the perfect opportunity, but the witch may be waiting for them.
The Galactic Expansion Home for Lost Children, otherwise known in Ravens Pass as the Old Orphanage, is actually full of alien children ready to take over the planet, but at least one of them may actually be a human spy.
The Mills family are planning on moving to Florida, but they soon discover what other people who live in Ravens Pass already know--that this town does not let go of its citizens that easily.
When a freak storm overturns their boat and strands Garrett and his best friend, Henry, on a creepy island, Garrett learns something about Henry that he never suspected--he has been dead for months.