From the moment he enters the old house in Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny feels the presence of something. When he investigates the attic room which is to be his, he discovers a stain on the floor which makes him think unaccountably of death, death for which he feels strangely responsible...

Something lives at the top of Kneeknock Rise: a terrible, mournful creature called "the Megrimum". No one dares to confront the awful beast - until young Egan determines to hunt it down. Will be live to tell the tale, and what will happen if he does?

What is the secret of Halloween? How did it start? Where? Why? What for? - a group of young trick-or-treaters is about to find out!

On the run from his wicked uncle, Touch receives help from an unexpected source: the ghost of a magician known as the Great Chuffalo. A caper more comic than creepy.

Mr. Fast is a lonely and greedy man, but perhaps his new neighbour will solve both problems - could he be a millionaire ready to be generous to a new friend? Fast's scheming leads to a profitable and seemingly harmless deal with Mr. Fishbane - but just who is Fast bargaining with?

The title says it all. A worn old doll from a ruined orphanage brings nightmares to its new owner; a man finds he's only part of someone else's dream; an orchid develops an appetite for blood - these are just a few of the strange stories gathered here.

James and his family are troubled by a poltergeist. Only James knows that it is the ghost of a seventeeth-century sorcerer, Thomas Kempe. At first the disasters are only minor irritations, but when events take a darker turn, it is up to James to lay the spectre to rest forever. A great balance of humour and suspense.

The dark-thirty is the half-hour just before nightfall, a time of shadows and things half-seen, a time for imaginations to run wild. Here are ten tales to set your spine a-tingle from the rich oral tradition of the American South.

The latest installment in the "Short and Shivery" series offers thirty new stories of ghoulish delight from around the world -- man-eating trees, werewolves, shape-shifting witches, and ghosts who won't believe they're dead. Hold on to your hats!

A collection of truly spooky tales featuring child ghosts, some gentle, some ghastly, all gripping. A treat for ghost story connoisseurs.

Jessica has never liked cats, but she can't ignore the plight of the wretched little bundle she discovers at the back of her secret cave. Soon though, the pathetic waif becomes powerful, wickedly powerful, urging Jessica to play cruel tricks. Is it really a witch's cat, or is it all Jessica's imagination?

Children shouldn't mess about in graveyards. Eager to be part of the "in" crowd, Guy gets involved in raising a very nasty spirit from the dead. What is worse, he involves his innocent young brother in his dangerous game.

When Jake Barnette is sentenced to hang for murder, he vows to come back from beyond the grave for revenge on the judge, jury, and their families. The criminal is hanged: all is forgotten. Then the foreman of the jury dies...

All is not well at the Academy of Young Witches. Headmistress Belladonna Agrimony seems to be going soft - losing her magic touch. When the most powerful and frightening of all the witches, The Three, come to inspect the school, Belladonna and her students try to put on a good show, but something is bound to go wrong...