The frightening horror classic of a small, sleepy town in Maine that wakes to a new reality when vampires take over.

Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry. Stories include: Come in and rest a spell -- MARIAN -- Morgan Roehmar's boys -- Only on All Hallows Eve-- Cemetery field trip -- Best friends -- Pretending -- I want to thank you -- When and how -- When my parents come to visit -- Edward, lost and far from home -- My real mother -- Holding on.

Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.

Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.

New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.

When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently establishes a relationship with a tormented, malevolent spirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.

When the unearthing of a broken, ancient cross unleashes the power of a long-buried dragon, Stephen and Sarah MacIntyre and their friend, Tom Aubrey, try to stop the dragon's awakening--even though it means fighting their own brother, Michael, who has fallen under the dragon's evil spell.

After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.

Fifteen-year-old Matt and his new friend Robin search the globe to retrieve an ancient code--rumored to have brought down the ancient civilization of Atlantis--from the hands of a madman who is bent on destroying the modern world.

When Darren and three of his best friends stumble across as invitation to visit the Cirque du Freak, a mysterious freak show, only two tickets are available so they draw straws to see who will go. As if by destiny, Darren wins one, and what follows is his horrifying descent into the dark and bloody world of vampires.

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. The sequel is City of Ashes.

The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers.

Famous horror story writer R. U. Tremblin comes to the town of Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying--and deadly--night with him in a haunted house.

Jonathan Starling's father is in an asylum and his home has been attacked when, while running away from kidnappers, he stumbles upon Darkside, a terrifying and hidden part of London ruled by the descendants of Jack the Ripper, where Jonathan is in mortal danger if he cannot find the way out.

A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.

When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.

Drawing on dark fantasy and the fairy tale as well as horror and wild humor, ten acclaimed authors pay homage to the gothic tale in wide-ranging stories of the supernatural and surreal. The following stories are included: Lungewater / Joan Aiken -- Morgan Roehmar's boys / Vivian Vande Velde -- Watch and wake / M.T. Anderson -- Forbidden brides of the faceless slaves in the nameless house of the night of dread desire / Neil Gaiman -- The dead and the moonstruck / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- Have no fear, Crumpot is here! / Barry Yourgrau -- Stone tower / Janni Lee Simner -- The prank / Gregory Maguire -- Writing on the wall / Celia Rees -- Endings / Garth Nix.

The classic horror story of the haunted Hill House, which is gathering its powers to possess one of four curious seekers trying to unlock its secrets.

When soon-to-be stepbrothers, Joel and Tim, start having the same nightmare after moving into a old house, they decide to investigate its source and the many other strange occurrences in their new home.

After a horrifying encounter in a graveyard, Lucy cannot get over feeling that she is being watched, but is unwilling to trust the one person who might be able to help her. This is the first in the "Unseen" series, followed by Rest in Peace, Blood Brothers, and Sin and Salvation.

Two stories of the supernatural feature a teenager and her orphaned niece who become involved with a malicious ghost, and a retelling of the story of the Salem Witch Trials from the perspective of one of the girls thought to be possessed.

A selection of chilling tales from well-known masters of young adult literature. Stories include: The monkey's wedding / Joan Aiken -- Satan's shadow / Alane Ferguson -- The chosen / Madge Harrah -- The bogey man / Annette Curtis Klause -- Bearing Paul / Chris Lynch -- The beautiful thing / Harry Mazer -- The house on Buffalo Street / Norma Fox Mazer -- The dark beast of death / Joan Lowery Nixon -- Girl at the window / Richard Peck -- The grind of an axe / Theodore Taylor -- Moon kill / Patricia Windsor.

When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny in this creepy and macabre story.

Weirdly wonderful and a touch macabre, the nine short stories will take you into worlds with elements of reality but also supply a fantastic twist. Stories are: The wrong grave -- The wizards of Perfil -- Magic for beginners -- The faery handbag -- The specialist's hat -- Monster -- The surfer -- The constable of Abal -- Pretty monsters.

When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occuring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives.

An ancient evil has reawakened on a small island off the coast of Rhode Island, eager to cause death and destruction as it has twice before, but three teens face it with their newly-developed supernatural abilities.

Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties." First in the Last Apprentice series, this is followed by Curse of the Bane, Night of the Soul-Stealer, and Attack of the Fiend.

When she goes off to college in order to learn the ways of ordinary people, Jaimie, who possesses supernatural powers like the rest of her clan, meets her roommate Kim, who is being pursued by a mysterious soul-sucking demon.

On a secret visit to her father's grave, sixteen-year-old Alissa discovers the crypt of a child and acquires terrible powers from which only her friend Evelin can save her.

As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed.

In 1904 New York City, the spirit of a deceased German American teenage girl searches for the person responsible for the Slocum steamboat fire that claimed her life and the lives of more than 1000 other passengers.

Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.

Sixteen-year-old Nyssa uses her ability to see into people's dreams to discover who murdered her parents six years ago.