R. L. Stine

"Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they ... meet ... some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy--and seedy. Is this just part of their father's 'harmless' experiment? Or has the basement turned...

Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave; and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough. He's going to scare Courtney once and for all. And he's come up with the perfect plan to do it.Eddie's going to lure Courtney down to Muddy Creek. Because he knows that she actually believes those silly rumors about the monsters. That there are Mud Monsters living deep inside the creek. It's...

After Kris gets a mannequin of her own because she is jealous of all the attention which a ventriloquist's dummy brings to her twin sister, horrible happenings seem to double.

Jodie loves her grandfather's scary stories, but this summer's visit to the farm becomes a little too frightening when her grandparents' twelve new--and evil-looking--scarecrows come to life.

When their father inherits an old house in the town of Dark Falls, Amanda and Josh are excited--until they begin to suspect that the house is haunted.

Unable to fit in with the other kids at summer sports camp, Wendy, a nonathletic type, cannot understand what all the hype is over a little game of softball, but she is about to learn the origins of everyone's obsessive competitive streak.

Lucy loves to tell monster stories, but when she discovers a real monster, the librarian in charge of the summer reading program, no one will believe her, and the monster knows who she is and is coming to get her.

Harry and his brother, Alex, go from creeped out to downright frightened when the strange goings-on at Camp Spirit Moon take a supernaturally dangerous turn.

Lost in an Egyptian pyramid, twelve-year-old Gabe and his cousin Sari find they are not alone.