"Richard Hsieh's dad studies dreams, and one day, they decide to hook Richard's new Slappy doll up to the dream machine as a joke. All of a sudden, Richard starts having nightmares of Slappy coming to life and wreaking havoc. But they're only dreams, right? Except, when his cousin Willow comes to visit, she also dreams of Slappy. It's impossible! But when Slappy threatens to invade more kids' dreams, they'll have to figure out how to defeat him before...

"No one ever leaves Copper Hollow. It's a town with a deadly history . . . but nobody ever talks about it. Kimberly thinks there might be something strange going on. She's not sure what - until the menacing doll appears with two words written across its clothes: BURY ME. Kimberly and her friends try to destroy the doll . . . but every time they think it's gone, it comes back again. Is there any way to rid themselves of the evil once and for all?"--Page...

Josie always liked visiting her grandmother's house. But when she's forced to move there, she starts to feel like something is a little . . . off. Her grandmother has some very strange rules: 1. Never leave your windows open after dark. 2. No dolls in the house. 3. Never, ever go by the house in the woods. A little spooked, Josie is relieved to find that her school seems pretty normal. She even manages to make friends with a popular girl named Vanessa....

"Livia wears a small porcelain hand around her neck, all that is left of a doll that once belonged to her grandmother, but on the first night at summer camp the hand comes alive and terrifies an envious cabinmate--and there are plenty of chills in five other stories in this collection"--Verso page.

"Lucy and her younger sister find a broken doll that has astonishing powers and a sinister agenda."--

Malik and his sister, Tiana, love to hunt for hidden treasure and are about to discover a small locked box buried behind a deserted house.

When Bradley takes a shortcut through the graveyard one evening, he encounters a mysterious girl who keeps jumping out from behind the gravestones; she is wearing clothes that resemble a doll that Bradley took from his sister and accidentally ruined, and now that doll with the melted face is back for revenge--and the reader will find five more equally chilling stories in this collection.

The haunting starts even before Sophie arrives on the Isle of Skye to spend the summer with her cousins, but when she arrives she finds a house haunted by the ghost of a girl who attended school there a hundred years ago, as well as cousin Rebecca who died young and is never mentioned by her family--and she must somehow solve the mystery of the frozen Charlotte dolls before the whole family is destroyed.

After Holly and Hector Thorn are left behind during a simple game of hide-and-seek, they find themselves transported to the Hiddenseek -- a cursed world seemingly trapped in time. There, It, a shape-shifting witch, stalks children day and night, turning any she can lay her hands on into statues, frozen in their final moments of terror. Together with the other lost children they encounter, Holly and Hector will have to unravel the mysterious origins...

"The day Hadley discovers the lone glass eye in the empty attic of her new house is the day her life changes forever"--