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1) Ooze control
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After school, a boy boards an odd-looking bus. Inside, the floor, the seats and even the ceiling are covered with chewed-up wads of gum and other sticky gunk. Soon the sticky wads grow thicker and climb higher. Can the boy escape before the ooze takes control?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
34 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, Lucas and Travis, and their father are on a hunting trip deep in the woods, and the cabin where they are staying boasts a wolf skin that supposedly came from a werewolf--so when Lucas and the skin disappear, and neither are ever found, the question is: whose skin ended up on Professor Igor's wall?
3) Ooze is it?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
34 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When three teenagers hear that the meteor they saw fall from the sky might be valuable, they each sneak back separately to grab a chunk--but this meteor is oozing with something else, and as they fight over a piece something terrible happens, and what is left of them afterward ends up in Professor Igor's lab.
4) Dead end
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
37 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Braden is not looking forward to explaining a failed test to his parents, but when the afternoon school bus stops he finds himself at a cemetery that is crowded with zombie-like figures pushing him toward an open grave, and it looks like he may have reached his final destination.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
37 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After band rehearsal, students trudge through a snowstorm and onto a bus hat no one recognizes. The driver is missing, so one student begins to fool with the steering wheel and gearshift. That's a big mistake, maybe the last mistake he'll ever make!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
35 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Middle school student Kevin is tired of being ignored and obsessed with winning the school science fair prize, so he creates a project with many, many jars of eyeballs, all bobbed up and down in green liquid--but what happens the night after he wins is completely unexpected.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jordan and his friend Evan are picked up by a different school bus, driven by a shadowy figure, a bus where all the other children are bizarrely deformed, except for one girl at the back, and when the children see their reflections in the dirty windows they start to scream--but what will happen when they get off the bus at school?
8) Blood shark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
34 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Professor Igor tells the story of Taylor who, while on a school field trip looking for fossils, stole another student's wallet and buried it next to what looked like a fossilized shark fin--but when he came back the next day to retrieve the wallet he found that where there are fossil fins, there are also fossil teeth, and not all the sharks were entirely dead.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aaron can barely see anything without his glasses, which he just stepped on, so when he sees a monster crawl out from under the hood of the bus and begin to tear the engine apart he can not understand why none of the other children can see it--terrified he forces the bus to stop, but when he gets off things only get worse.
10) Killer app
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The new RavenWing app downloads more than horror stories: it unleashes a swarm of attacking ravens on the unwary user--can the Librarian return the birds to their proper book?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
36 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aboard a strange bus, a girl hears a sound coming from a hatch under her seat. When she lifts the hatch, a hand reaches out and grabs her. Then another hand and another! Are the body parts reaching for help ... or do they want something more?
13) Ghost writer
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simon Skull, an embittered writer, is creating strange blank books, which turn the readers into phantoms--can the Librarian reverse the spell and rescue his friends?
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
61 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
60 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
61 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
60 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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