Baffled at the series of strange, unexplained events taking place at summer camp in the desert wilderness, twelve-year-old Billy considers escaping the horrors forever.
Cooper Holmes and his family move to a house deep in the woods, but his parents don't believe him when he hears barking at night and sees two vicious dogs disappear into thin air.
Billy and Sheena go with their Uncle, Dr. Deep, to search for treasure and are pursued by pirates who have been dead for two hundred years, and when Billy and Sheena return to land and visit Horrorland they encounter their worse fears.
Emily finds it is impossible to like her new stepsister. Before long Emily is living in total fear of her. Then Emily learns that her stepsister wrote in her diary that she murdered someone!.
Twelve-year-old Dana Johnson's life changes forever when he finds an unusual egg at his little sister's birthday party that hatches into a creature from Mars.