Kareem and Amina find zombie cupcakes devouring each other in their kitchen, and that is just one of the tales in this collection of really scary stories.

"Welcome to the Graveyard of Dead Letters, where evil silent letters, like the W of swords and the K of knives, are buried. Here they can do no harm. But the wicked Spellbinder has plans to revive the letters . . . and use them to create a fierce weapon that will challenge even the powerful Librarian! Uncover hidden dangers and dark mysteries with SECRETS OF THE LIBRARY OF DOOM, a page-turning chapter book series from bestselling author Michael Dahl."...

There are plenty of chills in this compilation of four separately published books of scary stories: The stranger on the stairs, The doll that waved goodbye, The voice in the boys' room, and The phantom on the phone.

Simone has always liked the room she sleeps in when she visits her great-aunt Glory, but this time the curtains remind her of an octopus reaching for her, and when she wakes her kitten has disappeared--and that is only one of the stories in this collection of chilling tales.

There is something in Howard's backpack that should not be there; he is initially relieved to find out that it is just a strange cell phone--until the voice on the phone instructs him to bring it to the cemetery, third gravestone from the left.

The young heroes have escaped from the underground kingdom of the trolls, but a final battle still awaits them at Zion Falls, where the trolls are controlling the people's minds and using them to attack the children of the stars--will any of them survive?

A mysterious book marked with an X has let loose a swarm of insects, and the bugs are on the hunt for their favorite food -- paper! Will the Librarian be able to squash the deadly pests?

A dangerous book is missing from the Library of Doom. The book has no words, except for one single sentence. Whoever reads it disappears. Forever. When the book appears in a classroom on the first day of school, it will be up to the Librarian to close this new chapter of fear.

Two brothers, Lucas and Travis, and their father are on a hunting trip deep in the woods, and the cabin where they are staying boasts a wolf skin that supposedly came from a werewolf--so when Lucas and the skin disappear, and neither are ever found, the question is: whose skin ended up on Professor Igor's wall?

Black Creek middle school football players are happy after a win at a rival school, but the bus that picks them up for the trip home is not the same as the one that brought them, and it is driven by a shadowy figure behind a plastic wall--but when the bus stops to pick up a passenger it turns out to be their dead coach and the terrified team does not know if he there to doom or save them from the School Bus of Horrors.