P. J. Night

When Katie's best friend moves away and she accepts an invitation from the new girl in town, she is unsettled by the girl's strange obsession with her dolls.

"It's New Year's Eve, and for the three Peterson sisters, that means their family's huge bash. Their house is the perfect place for a party - if you don't mind the drive. That's because the Petersons live way out at the edge of town, where there are no other houses for miles ... except for the old one next door that's been abandoned for as long as anyone can remember. Through the years the Peterson girls have seen strange things going on at that house...

"Every home has its secrets. For Nora, the truth starts to be revealed on Halloween night. It's been a bad few months for Nora Wilson. There was a huge fire in her family's apartment this summer, and her parents have been acting superweird ever since. They won't let her or her brother out of the apartment anymore, not even to go to school. So when Nora's parents say she can go trick-or-treating on Halloween, Nora is thrilled. And she's even more thrilled...

Jenna Sanchez has always been fascinated by the legend of the Marked Monster, the scarred half-bird, half-beast creature said to roam the forests, so she hosts a campout where she and her friends can search for the legendary beast and see if the monster is real.

When Bethany Warren moves from New York City to the small town of Warwick, she's surprised by how quickly she meets a new group of friends, including boyfriend Nate Carlson who gives her a beautiful old ruby ring. Bethany thinks the legend of Lady Warwick, who was said to have been buried alive, is just silly old town folklore--until her life starts imitating legend a little too closely.

Birthday girl and queen of all things spooky, Kelly Garcia is all set to have the perfect night. First her parents are going out of town. And although they hired a babysitter, Kelly is excited to basically be on her own. And then there's the sleepover she's having--a virtual, webcam sleepover where she and her friends can scare each other silly by telling ghost stories and summoning the spirit of Miss Mary, a woman from their small town who died tragically...

Emmy Spencer and Lizzy Draper have been best friends since birth, but now that they're in seventh grade, they've begun to drift apart. Lizzy, insistent on being called Liz now, has a new group of friends, and she has gone out of her way to exclude Emmy from them. It's almost as if Lizzy doesn't want Emmy hanging out with her anymore. But then Emmy comes into possession of a doll that can change all that--a voodoo doll that will put Emmy in control...

When a tattered, old tarot card falls out of Charlotte Torres's library book, she doesn't think much of it. It doesn't even bother her that there's a message written on the back: "Pass this card along or you'll be sorry!" But when horrible things start happening, things that seem like bad luck, but frighten Charlotte the most, she begins to believe in the power of the card and its message. She wants to get rid of it, but she doesn't want to pass it...