Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?

"Josh and Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block. It might even be haunted. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Josh and Amanda do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what Mom and Dad had in mind.. Because they want to be friends ... forever..." -- P. [4] of cover.

When Tim Swanson steals the bag of secret tricks from his hero, Amaz-O, scary things begin happening.

From bloody handwriting on a wall to a mad rash of costume switching, evil events on Halloween night escalate, until it is difficult to tell who is killing whom.

"Thirteen thirteens make an evil curse. Can Joseph defeat the evil before his thirteenth birthday ends in horror? Joseph has always had such good fortune that his nickname is Lucky. His luck has come in thirteens. He's the thirteenth of his parents' thirteen children. And both of his parents were thirteenth children. But just before his thirteenth birthday, his luck is about to change. Two mysterious visitors warn him that if he collects thirteen...

Travel writer Lea Sutter finds herself on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, the wrong place at the wrong time. A merciless, unanticipated hurricane cuts a path of destruction through the island and Lea barely escapes with her life.In the storms aftermath, she discovers two orphaned boys-twins. Filled with a desire to do something to help, to make something good of all she witnessed, Lea impulsively decides to adopt them. The boys, Samuel...

On Max's birthday, he finds a kind of magic mirror in the attic. It can make make him invisible. So Max and his friends start playing "now you see me, now you don't." Until Max realizes that he's losing control. Staying invisible a little too long. Having a harder and harder time coming back. Being invisible is turning into a very dangerous game. The next time Max gets invisible, will it be ... forever?

Two boys hear strange noises from a closet that says "off limits.".

It's the slime that never dies! Evan can't stand baby-sitting his genius cousin, Kermit. Kermit refuses toplay video games. He won't even play Frisbee! All he like to do is hang out in the basement doing strange experiments and playing mean practical jokes on Evan and his friend Andy. But now Andy's found something that will teach Kermit a lesson once and for all.