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"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"--Provided by publisher.

One morning Ella gets an odd text message from a friend, about a strange girl who is showing up in Ella's selfies, and as the messages keep coming the girl with a monkey head keeps getting closer and closer--and that is only one of the chilling tales in this collection of scary stories.

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.

Logan is disturbed by a mysterious mumbling voice in the boys' room, but when he finds a cell phone floating in the toilet, and reaches in to retrieve it he is caught in a trap--and that is only one of the chilling stories in this collection.

On his first (and last) day delivering mail in this neighborhood, Mr Finn meets Dory, a little girl with a pet monster she keeps in the mailbox--and this is only one of the chilling tales in this collection of scary stories.

Kareem and Amina find zombie cupcakes devouring each other in their kitchen, and that is just one of the tales in this collection of really scary stories.

Bennie, Mateo, and their friends love playing tag, but when Bennie tells a story about the original "it" being a boy who turned into a monster, nobody really expects it to actually happen--and that is just one of the scary stories in this collection.

There is plenty to fear in this collection of short, and really scary stories, including: The floating face, What they found in the alley, and The goblin in the grass, among others.

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.

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.

When her father uses weed killer on their lawn, Lisa dreams that the goblin in the grass that her grandmother told her about will come after her because his home is threatened--and this is just one of the scary stories in this collection.

Black Creek middle school football players are happy after a win at a rival school, but the bus that picks them up for the trip home is not the same as the one that brought them, and it is driven by a shadowy figure behind a plastic wall--but when the bus stops to pick up a passenger it turns out to be their dead coach and the terrified team does not know if he there to doom or save them from the School Bus of Horrors.

Professor Igor relates the tale of how he got his latest specimen--a brain, which once belonged to a poor human boy.

Ivy and Gracie's fifth grade class is supposed to be going on a field trip to a museum, but the bus that picks them up, driven by a shadowy figure that nobody can quite see sitting behind a plastic wall, makes one detour due to construction, and then another, and suddenly the bus is accelerating and taking the children on a ride to destruction.

After detention, a young boy steps aboard the late bus. When the bus takes an unexpected turn toward a graveyard, his long day suddenly goes from bad to worse.