Stine, R. L

Encountering a strange creature in the halls of The Scare School, three unsuspecting students find themselves in a horrifying alternate-reality world where they attempt to free other trapped kids while trying to find their way back home.

"Devin and his sister Violet are visiting their Uncle Jack for the summer. He lives in an old house by the seashore. Jack was a sailor and he has collected strange and fascinating items from the sea. Exploring a back room, Devin and Violet discover a locked trunk. A pirate's chest. The trunk is wrapped in old, heavy chains and locked with a huge rusted lock. But they manage to get it open. They lift the lid slowly-and see that it's filled with antique jack-in-the-boxes. Huh? One box is hidden under the others, covered in dust. It plays an odd unpleasant song. Up pops a very ugly, mean-looking puppet, an old pirate with a dirty red bandana over his long greasy hair, scars on his cheeks, and a beard, and one eye missing. 'Thanks for letting Sailor Jack out!' he rasps, bouncing on his spring. Devin and Violet now face new and troubling questions: Will Jack return them to their uncle? Just how much is a pirate's promise worth?"--Amazon.com.

Billy McGee comes across both Slappy, the evil ventriloquist's dummy, and his diary.

Shep is haunted by the ghost of Slappy the living dummy.

"Magic Club is supposed to be fun for Frankie Miller and his friends. But that pest, Ari Goodwyn, is always ruining everyone's tricks. After a really embarrassing fail, Frankie wants revenge. When the legendary magician, Mystical Marvin, comes to perform his daring stunts, Frankie sees an opportunity to get even with Ari"--Back cover.

Scott and Glen try to grow an aqua ape in water and discover the pet has become destructive, and Wes is haunted by a figure inside a three dimensional poster that wants to come alive and wreak havoc on the town and Buying a 3-D poster at Sal's Five and Ten, Wes Parker spends several hours looking without success for the hidden image within the myriad of strange colors, but when he finally sees it, he wishes he had not.

The kids who are trapped in HorrorLandia thought they had reason enough to panic, but that was before they reached Parque del P?nico. It had seemed like the only way to escape the mysterious villain who's playing puppet-master with their lives. But Parque del P?nico is a perilous place, and it makes HorrorLandia seem nice.

Siblings Boone and Heather arrive at Camp Slither hoping to experience the animals that live in the wild, but instead find themselves trying to survive a hungry horde of slithery snakes.

An illustrated, interactive story with a narrator who invites the reader to meet a vast array of pet monsters, such as the Yucky Mucky twins, and choose one to take home.

Gary doesn't have any friends, bullies are constantly beating him up, and even his little sister doesn't like him, which is why he is so excited about exchanging bodies with another kid. But something horrible happens and he finds out his new body isn't human.