Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.

Scary ghost stories from around the world, some previously published in the children's magazine "Cricket", are collected in this volume that includes tales of terror from Scotland, Mexico, and Japan, among others.

Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

When she realizes that her new house is haunted by the ghost of a ten-year-old girl who used to live there, Charlotte tries to help her find peace.

Best friends Ouchie and Squishy, who love bowling and horror movies respectively, meet the eccentric owner of a local bowling alley and try to help him save Bowl-A-Rama from the wrecking ball and a destructive psychotic lunatic.

Do you dare to cross paths with ... An enchantress who can slip in and out of her skin, A man more evil than the devil, A skull who talks back, A pair of creepy feet that can walk on their own? Spooky, chilling, and fantastical, this collection of six scary tales will send shivers up your spine!

A collection of six short stories which feature a variety of monstrous creatures from the author of Red Wall

A collection of stories about eerie encounters in various ghost towns across the United States. Each story is accompanied by an afterword about the actual town on which the story is based.

Lavishly illustrated, four classic tales by the horror master - "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," "Hop-Frog," and "The Fall of the House of Usher" - are bound in a graphic novel-style format showcasing the deliciously macabre spirit of Poe's tales.

This series entry presents Poe's unabridged text accompanied by annotated color and black-and-white illustrations and reproductions of various aspects of life during the stories' time periods. The selections include "The Gold-Bug," "The Oval Portrait," "The Cask of Amontillado," "Some Words with a Mummy," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Robert D. San Souci is an award-winning author of many books for young readers, including the Short and Shivery series.

At Christmastime in 1944, while staying with disagreeable cousins in New York State because her father is in Europe fighting in World War II, 11-year-old Abby discovers that her relatives' old house is haunted by the ghost of a girl from the Civil War era.

Alonzo King, born on Halloween, is convinced he is living his own horror movie and that he can conjure up every movie monster ever made. But not until the Beast comes to town can Alonzo become what he's always wanted to be--The Boy of a Thousand Faces.

Full-color drawings, photographs, and reproductions with extended captions have been added to the unedited text of Shelley's novel, thus placing the work in the context of the era in which it was written.

The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. Based on Stevenson's repeated nightmare of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. Still considered one of the best stories ever written about the complexity of the divided self - the good and the evil sides of humankind.

When 11-year-old Jenny arrives at her grandfather's house but is not recognized as one of the family because of a servant's intrigue, the young orphan endures a difficult fate.