Contains novel extracts and short stories about ghosts, vampires, and cursed creatures, including selections by Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, and others.
A magician named Valerian has only the days between Christmas and New Years to save his own life after making a pact with the devil years before and seeks the help of a servant boy and an orphan girl named Willow.
Just as eleven-year-old Max is celebrating a chance to move away from the ghosts who have been ruining his life, two ghouls invade his house and only Nicky and Tara, the ghosts, can scare them away.
Christina, a boarder along with Anya at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington, a principal and his wife, becomes alarmed when she realizes that the seemingly respectable couple are behind the slow erosion of Anya's sanity.
Carter is under so much pressure to ace her math achievement exam that she gets Adam to take the test for her. She promises him a date in return but he wants more--much more.
Alice suspects something is wrong when she gets a call from her father insisting she drive his precious Corvette to meet him, even though she does not have a driver's license, but she realizes someone has set her up when she learns that her father is dead and she is the number one suspect.
