Zackie Beauchamp wants to be a famous horror author, but even he is frightened when everything he writes on the old typewriter he found in a burned-out antique store starts to come true.
A collection of short graphic novels featuring characters from famous "Goosebumps" stories includes "Ghost Beach," in which two siblings investigate a local legend and discover a terrible secret about their family.
When Billy goes away to summer camp, he suspects something evil is going on when fellow campers begin to disappear and his parents will not answer his letters.
Amy is thrilled when her father brings home Slappy, a ventriloquist dummy he found in a local pawn shop, but her enjoyment turns to terror when she discovers Slappy has an evil routine of his own.
Ricky's plan to get revenge on Tasha for kicking him off the school paper backfires when the message he sneaks into the paper inviting creeps to call Tasha gets printed with his number instead and the calls he gets are from real Creeps--complete with scaly purple skin and long sharp fangs.