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Spooksville #5: The Cold People (Christopher Pike)

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Sally, Adam, Watch, and Cindy are wandering around town when they come across some weird blocks of ice. Watch thinks there's something strange about the blocks. The surface temperature of each one is way below what it should be and there looks like there might be something trapped inside. After dragging one of the blocks into the woods, they start a fire. The fire melts some of the ice and reveals a man inside. His arm comes loose, Watch touches it, and the hand grabs him. The man eventually escapes, grabs Watch, and runs off into the woods with him. The others go to see Bum, the former mayor of town who is now viewed as a crazy guy. Bum tells them that it sounds like the guy was one of the Cold People. Years ago, there were two different continents: Atlantis and Mu. Star People came down in spaceships and asked to help the world. Both went to each continent and said that the other would kill them. There was also something about making the people live forever. Atla...

Spooksville #2: The Howling Ghost (Christopher Pike)

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Cindy, her little brother Neil, and her mom must moved to Spooksville to live in her father's old family home after he died. When she and her brother take a walk, Neil ends up running towards the creepy lighthouse on the outskirts of town. There are a bunch of local legends that say it's haunted, but she hasn't lived there long enough to believe in them. Neil takes off for the lighthouse, and she hears a strange noise. A sudden wind whips up right beside the building on the water. Cindy swears that she sees the ghost of an older woman grab her brother and drag him out over the water. Just as quickly as she sees it, her brother disappears. Adam, Sally, and Watch meet for breakfast at the doughnut shop, and Sally brings up the case. The cops think that her brother fell in the water and accidentally drowned. Watch thinks it may have really been a ghost. When he says that Cindy is cute, Adam agrees to go over to her house and talk to her about what she saw. Cin...

Point Thriller: The Bride (D.E. Athkins)

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A bride grabs an antique letter opener, holds it up to the light, and then plunges it directly into her bridesmaid's hand. Hah-ha, not really. The bridesmaid, actually Allison, doesn't laugh it off because it goes between her fingers and nicks one. The photographer and his assistant just keep snapping pictures and oohing and ahhing. We learn that the bride is Blaine Harrod, and that she's kind of a bitch. She gets her assistant to send Allison a dozen roses and claims, unconvincingly, that it was an accident. Cut to little Jamie begging her parents to let her go to her cousin Blaine's wedding. Blaine, once called Charlotte Blaine Harrodson, changed her name to something more "exotic" and left town. After struggling for a few years, she reinvented herself as Blaine Harrod. Um, does she know how this works? Anyway, she's now some huge supermodel and she invited her younger cousin to come to her wedding early, go to some huge party with her fancy f...

Goosebumps HorrorLand #10: Help! We Have Strange Powers!

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Jillian and Jackson are twin sister and brother. Their neighbors, Artie and Nina, are also twins and new to town, but they really don't like them. All four end up in the same movie theater. Artie spills buttery popcorn all over Jackson's new sweater, and Nina just acts really annoying. The manager comes over and tosses them all out, and Nina and Artie's parents accidentally spray the other twins with water while driving through a puddle. They find a fortune telling machine on the street and try their luck. All they get is a card that says Welcome to HorrorLand on the front. When they get up the next day, Jillian realizes that something changed. She can read the thoughts of everyone around her, and Jackson can move things with his mind. Things get even more intense at school. Jackson freezes the clock in class to make the teacher think she has more time and run out before giving them a quiz. Jillian can read the thoughts of others, and after reading Nina...

Goosebumps #45: Ghost Camp (R.L. Stine)

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Harry and Alex are brothers stuck spending a few weeks at Camp Spirit Moon. Though they wanted to go somewhere else, their parents waited too long and it was the only place left. After arriving, they find the camp empty and deserted. One counselor shows up and tells them that everyone left them there alone. Just as he starts freaking out, he bursts out laughing and tells them it was just a joke they play on all new campers. Uncle Marv, the man who owns the camp, comes in and tells them that they can meet the other campers at the campfire that night. He makes some cryptic comments, and his eyes seem to glow when Alex asks if he can sing. Apparently Alex is some extremely talented singer. They go to their cabin, but it's all pretty boring. Worth noting is that Harry steps in a blue puddle that causes his feet to stick to the floor. At the campfire, Alex meets a kid named Elvis and Harry meets a girl named Lucy. When Harry accidentally drops his hot dog in the fire...