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For readers who like thrills with their laughs, Case File 13 is a satisfying new series that blends irreverent humor, page-turning adventure, a mysterious narrator, and the kind of authentic characters that will leave young readers convinced this story is about their own best friends. Case File 13: Zombie Kid follows three monster-obsessed friends who must solve fiendishly funny mysteries in their creepy hometown. Nick, Carter, and Angelo are obsessed...

With thrills, chills, and laughs on every page, this gruesomely funny book will leave you seeing double! In this third book in the acclaimed middle grade series. Three monster-obsessed friends accidentally unleash an army of evil twins onto their hometown. Nick, Carter, and Angelo have defeated the Zombie King, taken down a mad scientist, and, toughest of all, even learned to cooperate with their monster-loving girl rivals. But when the three friends...

Mollie Burrows and her friends, Caroline and Beth, rent a cabin in Colorado for a therapeutic getaway. Beth is despondent after a recent miscarriage, and Mollie hopes the trip will alleviate Beth's depression. The owner of the general store in town warns them about the Black-Eyed Kids-supernatural entities who pose as children and terrorize anyone who allows them into their homes-but Mollie scoffs at the ridiculous notion.Not long after they get settled,...

A family making a cross-country move makes a horrifying discovery in an old apartment complex. Can they survive the night? In 1670, in a small colony in Fairfax, Virginia, Robert Wyatt killed his family before taking his own life. The town elders held a tribunal and found Wyatt and his family guilty of mortal sin and cast their bodies into unholy ground for eternity-or did they? When a young couple and their three young children move into a mysterious...

Welcome back to the EXIT 13 Motel! We are so so happy you decided to return. After all, why would you ever want to leave? IF you'd like, we can even make sure that your stay is... permanent. With black-and-white comic pages throughout, EXIT 13 is perfect for mystery and horror loving kids everywhere! Try as they might, the McGinn family can't seem to escape from the clutches of the EXIT 13 Motel. Other guests come and go, totally unaware...