"It's bad enough Ian Barker has to spend his twelfth birthday with his sister and their two annoying cousins. The four of them can't ever hang out without getting into trouble. Vinnie and Jonny always want to play with Ian's stuff. They take extra turns and break everything they touch. Even Ian's new birthday presents are up for grabs. But when Ian gets a Slappy dummy from his dad, things go from bad to worse. When Slappy's in charge, you don't fight...

A young girl purchases the most frighteningly life-like Halloween mask and then, to her horror, discovers that she is unable to remove it from her face.

Duane and Stephanie meet a thirteen-year-old ghost at Hill House; Dave and Ben feed their ants human food; Becca worries about snakes on her school camping trip ; after discovering a hidden cave, a boy learns that it may be haunted; a young boy who is scared by almost everything discovers that there may really be a ghost following him; a quiet girl discovers that the three wishes she is magically granted are making her life miserable.

Britney battles against her cousin's new ventriloquist dummy and discovers a frightening secret in a new amusement park called HorrorLand.

Thinking her friend Zeke is getting too much into his phantom role in the school play, Brooke becomes alarmed when scary things start happening backstage and wonders if a real phantom is out to stop the show.

Cherished by a family that appreciates his ""good kid"" nature, Jack Stander encounters the sinister ventriloquist dummy, Slappy, at his grandfather's house and begins to act in bizarre and disturbing ways.--Amazon.com.

Disgusted by his father's collection of tacky lawn decorations, which include pink flamingos and plastic skunks, Joe Burton is further upset when a pair of ugly lawn gnomes are added and a number of strange incidents occur.

When Margaret and Casey see their father become weedy while working on his botany experiments, they worry that his plant-testing may not be entirely harmless.

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.

Cooper Klavan and his sister, Anna, are fishing with their parents at a woodland pond when they come across an injured bird. Anna, a huge animal lover, insists on taking it home to rehabilitate. But the bird really does not want to be rescued. It bites Anna. Soon, she is behaving very strangely: perching high up in trees and gathering sticks to hide in her room. Cooper doesn't want to jump to any conclusions, but his sister seems to be going to the...