Drawn from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings

While he is lost in a pyramid while on a visit to Egypt, Gabe suddenly realizes that he is not alone, and he soon learns the meaning of the legendary curse of the mummy's tomb.

Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.

It’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed Christine by its original cantankerous owner—rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had much luck in the looks or popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car . . . but Christine...

'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'salem's Lot was a summer of homecoming and return; spring burned out and the land lying dry, crackling underfoot. Late that summer, Ben Mears returned to 'salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new, unspeakable horror. A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as...

Determined to locate his missing sister, Sam ignores the advice of those around him and sets out across the forbidden zone with only the Kid at his side. Meanwhile, Shadowman continues to build an army, determined to take vengeance and rule his world.

Bizarre tales of a teenager going to the school dance with a robot, a Thanksgiving dinner is interrupted by turkeys looking for revenge, and other strange short stories.

Kaitlyn Fairchild and her psychically gifted companions are pursued by the evil Mr. Zetes, who is determined to capture their souls.

A boy suddenly finds himself haunted by the friendly ghosts of two children while being pursued by an evil being.

Presents color-illustrated renditions of four of Edgar Allan Poe's horror tales, including "The Black Cat," "The Masque of the Red Death," "Hop-Frog," and "The Fall of the House of Usher."