A group of teens break into an abandoned haunted mansion on Halloween, and when the prank goes awry one member sacrifices herself to save the others.

Every year, in a small town overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, fourteen children are invited to the Skullpocket Fair, a carnival run by ghouls. But only the strongest will survive and be indoctrinated into the ghouls’ theocratic cult.

A man recalls his childhood near the woods and the creature which lurked within it.

Through a confronting use of second-person, four haunted houses are hypothesized, each worse than the last, and ending with the most terrifying picture of all: dark reality in suburbia.

A teenage girl befriends a solitary bookworm who summers in her lakeside town, hoping he can help her learn about a lake monster she believes she saw. Over the course of a few summers, the two fall in love. The girl eventually learns the boy is the lake monster, granted human form for three months of the year.

Two twin girls live in a haunted house with their father as he writes his next book.

An elderly woman befriends a child who doesn’t seem to age and comes to her house dressed as a witch every Halloween. When the woman starts to inquire about the little witch, strange things begin to occur.

In a 21st-century all-girls school, a Filipina fifth-grader and her best friends are preparing for the school fair, where their classes are in charge of hosting the annual Haunted House. However, things haven't been the same for the group since one of the best friends claimed to have opened her Third Eye. Despite their classes' superstitions, the protagonist doesn't believe in ghosts and brushes off her best friend's claims. Her callousness challenges their friendship, and when the night of the Haunted House comes, she will realize just how dire the consequences of her disbelief are. In a 21st-century all-girls elementary school, violent lore about a long-dead student dominates hallway gossip. To a certain Filipina fifth-grader, however, the supernatural is all fun and games, so when her best friend claims to have opened her Third Eye, she brushes it off as a grab for attention. Her callousness challenges their relationship, and as her best friend recedes further inside herself, the fifth-grader realizes that her disbelief has consequences far direr than losing a friend.

An American teenager travels to her deceased great aunt’s farm in England where she forms an unlikely relationship with a horse and confronts the town’s dark traditions.

Two elderly New Yorkers have always enjoyed the summers in their peaceful lakeside cottage in the country. However, when they break tradition by staying past Labor Day, mysterious incidents and unfriendly locals remind them they've overstayed their welcome.