Mama takes her two daughters to the library every summer to pick out books about Black people so they can see the struggles, strength, and hope of people who look like them.

The Ghost Grabbers (an internet program, and Jaden's heroes) are filming a seance at the Pendleton Public Library, where the recently discovered unpublished manuscripts of the late horror author and library founder Alistair Pendleton are on display--so when the lights go out, and the manuscripts disappear, Jaden (who thinks a ghost took them), his twin sister Hayden, and the other members of Snoops Inc. swing into action to solve the mystery.

"Library page Baru Reddy loves horror stories so when the T. Middleton Nightengale City Library transforms into a ruined gothic cathedral complete with authors Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and Charlotte Brontë, not to mention a host of zombie monks, he is not as alarmed as his fellow pages; he just needs to figure out a way to bring Mary Shelley's creation (made out of books, not body parts) to life to defeat the zombies--and who better to help than...

"At T. Middleton Nightingale City Library, when the old, broken clock strikes twelve, the library is transformed into something out of an author's mind--and today the volunteer pages find themselves in the middle of Edgar Allan Poe's imagination where monsters lurk, and a raven is telling them to find Lenore if they want to restore the library to normal."--Provided by publisher.