When Tommy is sent to a special camp to make him into a "winner," he discovers that his fellow campers are competitive to the point of obsession, and that a particular teacher, Mrs. Maargh, takes winning very seriously.

Kat is reluctant to visit her Uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. People in the small town where he lives say he's a mad scientist like his great-grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster that came alive and terrorized the town. But Kat is relieved to find that even though he lives in a dark, old castle-like mansion, Uncle Vic is a quiet, gentle man, a scientist interested in building robots with artificial intelligence....

Frustrated when everyone at his school goes zombie crazy, Kenny reluctantly agrees to help his new friend with a zombie patrol at a mysterious hilltop house where three coffins have been delivered on Halloween.

Joining his uncle for a summer at the circus, Ray becomes a clown-in-training, but strange things start happening and he wonders about a place called "Clown Street" that even the other clowns are afraid to go to.

On Halloween, Sammy and his friends go to the haunted Barlow house where he has a strange, frightening experience, but what he doesn't realize is that he is possessed by a ghost that wants to turn him into a ghost as well.

When her family brings a rare egg back from a trip to Australia, Kate Lipton, twelve, is excited for it to hatch but when it does, she notices certain changes around her house.