Thirty-three stories about stranded aliens, a horrifying cheesemaker, a boy with the power to make stars vanish, and other frightening things. Includes notes on how the author got his ideas for these stories.

Enter the most terrifying place of all...the mind of R.L. Stine!

The Nightmare Hour...the time when the lights fade, the real world slips into shadow, and the cold, moonlit world of evil dreams takes over your mind.

What horror awaits a boy who has to spend Halloween in a darkened hospital? How do you outwit a ghost who wants your skin? What makes Nightmare Inn the most frightening place to visit?

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A collection of thirty-five stories featuring such horrors as a monstrous Halloween costume, a midnight visit to a graveyaard, and hearing-impaired genie. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.

Contains sixteen short stories, one novel, and fifteen poems.

A compilation of really scary stories also published in four separate library-bound volumes: The Girl in the Graveyard, The Library Claw, Shadow Shoes, and The Night Octopus.

"If you're feeling brave, turn the page. A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long... A look-alike doll makes itself right at home... A school talent-show act leaves the audience aghast... And a summer at camp takes a turn for the braaaains... This collection of all-new spooky stories is sure to keep readers up past their bedtimes, looking over their shoulders to see what goes bump in the night."--

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.

"Six-year-old Brandon hates to go up the stairs to bed because there is always a man sitting there, a man only he can see, but tonight he closes his eyes and makes the climb with his mother watching, and then he hears his mother scream--and that is only one of the stories in this collection about all-too-real fears"--Verso page.

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.

A pair of mysterious magic shoes appears every night under Daphne's bed, and they give her the ability to walk through solid objects, like a phantom, but there are consequences for wearing them--and that is only one of the chilling stories in this collection.